Der Fels (English: The Rock) was group of German Expressionist artists that existed from around 1920[1] to 1927.
The group's origins lay in the meeting of Franz Bronstert, Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen in a World War I prisoner of war camp in Ripon, England.
All the group's artists were later condemned by the National Socialist government as entartet ("degenerate").
Der Fels published a series of eight portfolios of prints (Verlag Krieg, Leipzig).
The artist fights titanic battles to win the souls of things, to penetrate to their depths, to vanquish the surface.