The emotion of the artist’s soul “is able to bring out a basically corresponding emotion in the soul of the viewer,” Kandinsky’s words / Expressionism aspires to arouse emotions, not just sensations, in the viewer / Manifestos and programmatical shows, to publicize their ideas / In 1913 Herwarth Walden organized the Erster deutscher Herbstsalon, German autumn salon, ambitious exhibition of international modern art / His weekly periodical and gallery Der Sturm, chiefly responsible for disseminating Expressionism / International forum for exchanging ideas / Dispersal of Expressionism after the Great War / Radical context of social unrest.

}