Curatorial Narrative In the wake of World War I, Anton Emanuel Peschka’s “Stadtlandschaft” (1920) embodies the tumultuous spirit of its era. As an Expressionist masterpiece, this painting distills the artist’s unique technique, characterized by impasto brushstrokes that imbue the composition with a palpable sense of urgency. The architectural subject matter, often a backdrop for human drama, here takes center stage, its modernist and contemporary design styles underscoring the artist’s fascination with the built environment. Within this visual landscape, Peschka orchestrates a chromatic structure of reds, greens, yellows, and browns, evoking an atmosphere of unease and transformation.When enlarged to 44×56, “Stadtlandschaft” assumes a monumental scale that reorients our perception of the painting as a designed object. The impasto brushstrokes now assume a sculptural quality, infusing the composition with a heightened sense of spatia