A look into the development of a painting Several years ago, a friend from Germany suggested I create artwork dealing with German themes. The idea of pursuing this subject intrigued me. German expressionism has always been a significant influence on my work. Artists Käthe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Görg Groß and Anselm Kiefer, just to name a few, left a lasting impression on how I approached art creation. Being that my father was a German Artist, theorist, art critic and published poet, the connection to Germany via art was easily established early. Side Note: Also of influence were these German Artists and The New Objectivity New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachiketh), was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the Kunst Halle in Mannheim, who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a post
