ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the cultural circles of Florence, Turin, and Rome, where modernist artists and artists’ groups were particularly active in the years immediately before and after the First World War, and looks specifically at their role in promoting modernist art and, to a certain extent, German expressionism in Italy. German expressionism had been a topic of discussion in the modernist circles of Florence and Turin in 1912 and 1913, but its reception remained, intentionally or not, fragmentary. Maria Elena Versari provides a convincing analysis of the cultural and political contexts in which the exhibitions of the German expressionists took place in Rome. A particular receptiveness of La Voce toward German culture in late 1912 and early 1913 certainly had to do with the direct contacts established between the editorial staff of La Voce and Herwarth Walden, publisher of Der Sturm in Berlin.
