Die Aktion, vol. 8, no. 21/22
Jerzy von Hulewicz
Polish, 1886–1940
Wladislav Skotarek
Polish, 1894–1970
Stanislaw Kubicki
German, 1886–1943
Stefan Szmai
1893–1974
Margarete Kubicka
German, 1891–1984
June 1, 1918
A 1918 issue of the Berlin avant‑garde periodical Die Aktion, a paper magazine in which the editors and artists used stark woodcut images to marshal political, literary, and visual experimentation.
The cover hits with raw, high‑contrast woodcut strokes: a jagged, almost screaming face beneath the heavy Gothic masthead and the blocky word “BUNT,” where white paper slashes through deep black to create an urgent, carved immediacy.
Die Aktion was a key Expressionist forum that revived the woodcut’s rough power to fuse art and politics, amplifying Central European modernists like Kubicki and reshaping public engagement with avant‑garde ideas.
Medium
Periodical with nine woodcuts; cover by Stanislaw Kubicki, additional prints by Wladislav Skotarek, Jerzy von Hulewicz, Stanislaw Kubicki, Stefan Szmai, and Margarete Kubicka
Dimensions
page (each approx.): 12 1/8 x 9 1/8" (30.8 x 23.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund and The Library Council
Accession
947.2010.235.1-9
Palette
Exhibitions
