Description from Artscene Vol. 12, No. 3: "By the twenties and thirties, printmakers in Germany found their horizons greatly expanded; the rise of expressionism in previous decades opened up new possibilities for subject matter and style. This galvanized the art world by transforming the way artists perceived the purpose and power of the print medium. In the 1920s and 1930s printmaking took on a new importance as a medium of social commentary and experimentation. After the desolation of the First World War, the Neue Sächlichkeit, or New Vision movement, took social concerns as its subject matter, often depicting the life in Germany with a gritty realism. Other artists reacted to conditions in Germany by developing highly personalized styles built upon the notions of individual creativity drawn from expressionism and promulgated by such divergent groups as the Bauhaus and German Dadaists." [p. 5]