German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s. These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European culture in fields such as architecture, painting and cinema. German Expressionist painting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism> produced a great number of works, and led to Neo-expressionism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-expressionism>.