# Documenta 1

The first Documenta took place between 15 July and 18 September 1955 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Arnold Bode. It was considered the largest and most extensive exhibition of modern art in West Germany since the end of the Second World War.

## Participants

A :
| Josef Albers | Kenneth Armitage | Jean Arp | René Victor Auberjonois | |
| B |||||
| Giacomo Balla | Willi Baumeister | Max Beckmann | Hermann Blumenthal | Reg Butler |
| Eduard Bargheer | Mirko Basaldella | Max Bill | Umberto Boccioni | |
| Ernst Barlach | Jean Bazaine | Renato Birolli | Camille Bombois | |
| Afro Basaldella | André Beaudin | Roger Bissière | Georges Braque | |
| C |||||
| Alexander Calder | Alexander Camaro | Heinrich Campendonk | Marc Chagall | Roberto Crippa |
| Massimo Campigli | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Carlo Carrà | Giorgio de Chirico | |
| Felice Casorati | Bruno Cassinari | Lynn Chadwick | Antonio Corpora | |
| D |||||
| Robert Delaunay | Charles Despiau | Theo van Doesburg | Raoul Dufy | |
| André Derain | Otto Dix | Raymond Duchamp-Villon | | |
| E |||||
| Max Ernst | | | | |
| F |||||
| Joseph Fassbender | Lyonel Feininger | Ernesto de Fiori | Xaver Fuhr | |
| G |||||
| Naum Gabo | Fritz Glarner | HAP Grieshaber | | |
| Werner Gilles | Julio González | Juan Gris | | |
| H |||||
| Hans Hartung | Erich Heckel | Werner Heldt | Auguste Herbin | |
| Karl Hartung | Bernhard Heiliger | Barbara Hepworth | Karl Hofer | |
| J |||||
| Alexej von Jawlensky | | | | |
| K |||||
| Wassily Kandinsky | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Oskar Kokoschka | | |
| Ludwig Kasper | Paul Klee | František Kupka | | |
| L |||||
| Berto Lardera | Henri Laurens | Fernand Léger | Kurt Lehmann | Wilhelm Lehmbruck |
| M |||||
| August Macke | Marino Marini | Otto Meyer-Amden | Giorgio Morandi | Gabriele Münter |
| Alberto Magnelli | André Masson | Joan Miró | Mattia Moreni | Zoran Mušič |
| Aristide Maillol | Ewald Mataré | Paula Modersohn-Becker | Ennio Morlotti | |
| Alfred Manessier | Henri Matisse | Amedeo Modigliani | Richard Mortensen | |
| Franz Marc | Georg Meistermann | Piet Mondrian | Georg Muche | |
| Gerhard Marcks | Hans Mettel | Henry Moore | Otto Mueller | |
| N |||||
| Ernst Wilhelm Nay | Rolf Nesch | Ben Nicholson | Emil Nolde | |
| P |||||
| Max Pechstein | Pablo Picasso | Filippo De Pisis | | |
| Antoine Pevsner | Édouard Pignon | Hans Purrmann | | |
| R |||||
| Otto Ritschl | Kurt Roesch | Georges Rouault | | |
| Emy Roeder | Christian Rohlfs | Henri Rousseau | | |
| S |||||
| Giuseppe Santomaso | Gérard Ernest Schneider | William Scott | Mario Sironi | |
| Edwin Scharff | Wols | Séraphine (Louis) de Senlis | Pierre Soulages | |
| Oskar Schlemmer | Kurt Schwitters | Gino Severini | Toni Stadler | |
| Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | Scipione (Gino Bonichi) | Gustave Singier | Graham Sutherland | |
| T |||||
| Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Pierre Tal-Coat | Hann Trier | Heinz Trökes | |
| U |||||
| Hans Uhlmann | | | | |
| V |||||
| Victor Vasarely | Alberto Viani | Jacques Villon | Maurice de Vlaminck | |
| Emilio Vedova | Marie Héléne Vieira da Silva | Louis Vivin | Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart | |
| W |||||
| Theodor Werner | Walter Kurt Wiemken | Hans Wimmer | Fritz Winter | Gustav H. Wolff |