A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee’s 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price. A prime cause of the 20th ...

In contrast to the prevailing Sturm und Drang, a work such as Kirchner’s woodcut “Women Bathing Between White Stones” (1912), with its smooth patches of color and suavely outlined nudes ...

Munch and Kirchner were also experimental printmakers, testing techniques, colors and papers for different effects. Munch’s black-and-white woodcut “Anxiety” (1896) and a livelier ...