The Weight of Expressionism To look at the work of Waldemar Flaig is to witness a life compressed into four decades. He was not a painter of idle scenery, but one who translated the psychological tension of the interwar period onto canvas and paper. His output, though truncated by an early death in 1932, carries the unmistakable grit of German Expressionism. This was an art form defined by angularity and emotional weight, and Flaig ut…