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Dresdner Sezessionist Group
The Dresdner Sezession was a short lived collaboration of German Expressionist founded by Conrad Felixmüller and his pupil Otto Dix in Dresden, during a period of political and social reform in the aftermath of world war I. The groups activity spanned from 1919 until its final collective exhibition in 1925. During its hay day the group consisted of some of the most influencial and prominant expressionist artists of their generations including Will Heckrott, Lasar Segall, Otto Schubert and Constantin von Mitschke-Collande, as well as the architect Hugo Zehder.1

Much of what is considered by many art historians to be the true peek of German expressionist art occurred in the first decades of the twentieth century just prior to world war I. This period was dominated by two major artistic groups known as Die Brücke (The Bridge)which was highly critical of Germanies increasingly Imperialistic movements and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)which focused much of its commentary on industrializations impact on the natural world. But few europeans were spared from the horrors of war and the major art groups were quickly dissolved and skattered by the onset of the first world war. Those artists who failed flee Europe found themselves conscripted to the front lines and many important artist such as Franz Marc and August Macke were killed in the trenches. it