“We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.”

As quoted in: Norbert Wolf, ‎Uta Grosenick (2004) Expressionism, p. 74
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German artist 1876–1907

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