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The legendary Armory Show (1913) acted as a platform for cultural transfer by presenting many protagonists of the European avantgarde movements. By doing so it changed the understanding of modern art in America. In the following decades many European artists promoted their art in the US, such as the Blue Four (Feininger, Kandinsky, Jawlensky & Klee).
A decade later others fled Europe to live, teach and work there, amongst them Albers, Beckmann, Ernst, Feininger and Grosz who changed the course of the American artworld.
After WW2 and with the 2nd Documenta in 1959 in Kassel the Abstract …