Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Vaulted Bridge in French Landscape Oil on Wood Painting by Vincent Mazzocchini
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vincent Mazzocchini (France, 20th Century) created this unique French landscape oil on pressed wood board painting.
This delightful composition is on rather unusual media. The lands...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Oil
To School in Llanfihangel. First Day at School, Rural Wales. Ceredigion & Powys.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
To School in Llanfihangel. (First Day at School).
Pastel on Paper. Signed.
Image size 21.7 inches x 29.6 inches ( 55cm x 75cm ).
Frame size 29 in...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Lost Hedgerows. Earth Science, Ecology and Agronomy. Original Pastel. Welsh.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
Lost Hedgerows.
Pastel on Paper. Signed.
Image size 21.9 inches x 25 inches ( 55.5cm x 63.5cm ).
Frame size 29 inches x 32.1 inches ( 73.5cm x 81...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
View of the Fjord Blick auf die Förde - Landscape Fjord Germany
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 42" [1942] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Blick auf die Förde” in the lower ri...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
'Expressionist Seascape', Accademia di Belle Arti, New York, ASL, CSFA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'DeMartis' for James Joseph DeMartis (American, 1926-1996) and dated 1964.
Born in Queens, New York, James Joseph DeMartis s...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
'At the Park', Metropolitan Museum, NY MoMA, AIC, ASL, Whitney Museum, Toledo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Rainey Bennett' (American, 1907-1998) and dated 1958; titled, verso, 'Romantic Landscape' and accompanied by original ...
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1950s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whew!" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a man on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on a be...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Body in the Field #3 - Red, Pencils, Landscape
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #3, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Havana
By Jean Carzou
Located in New York, NY
Jean Carzou traveled to Havana as an artist to explore the world and he captured a ship from a earlier era.
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1950s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape by Karl Speglitz - Watercolor 11x13 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Dimension with pass
21.7 x 27.7 cm
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Body in the Field #8 - Green, Landscape, Drawing, Pencils
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
'Venice, Lagoon in morning Haze', mixed media on paper. Circa 2007.
Located in Frome, Somerset
View of the Guideca looking at the Ducal Palace and Saint Marks in morning haze light.. A Capriccio mooded piece to capture the essence of experience of Venice. Gradwell's raison d'e...
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20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Watercolor Landscape Painting Jewish Modernist
By Jennings Tofel
Located in Surfside, FL
signed and bears the artist's studio label verso.
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 11.5 X15.5
Jennings (...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Body in the Field #2 - Red, Blue, Drawing, Coloured Pencils, Landscape
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Watercolor Landscape View From Nordingrå, 1916
Located in Stockholm, SE
Helmer Osslund was a renowned Swedish artist known for his expressionist landscape paintings that captured the raw and natural beauty of Sweden. We are delighted to offer for sale a ...
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1910s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Body in the Field #1 - Red, Landscape, Coloured pencil, Drawing
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #9 - Landscape, Orange, Red, Coloured pencil
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #9, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
European Architectural Colonnaded Arcade Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Vassiloff, Russian/American (1906 - 2000)
Artist Boris Vassiloff was born on March 24, 1906 to Julia Nikolaevna and Boris Ivanovich Vassiloff in Russia. He died peacefully on D...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Body in the Field #12 - Landscape, 21st Century, Wax pencil
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #12, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
'Expressionist Seascape', New York ASL, L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'DeMartis' for James Joseph DeMartis (American, 1926-1996) and painted circa 1965.
Born in Queens, New York, James Joseph DeMartis served with distinction in World War II and was decorated at the Battle of the Bulge. He subsequently attended painting classes at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1946-47) and, later, at the Art Students League of New York. He then enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts in Santa Monica, California until 1949, before leaving t study in Europe in 1950. He settled in Florence, Italy where he attended L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (1950-54). While continuing to study painting, he participated in several group and one-man shows in Italy and Switzerland.
In 1956, DeMartis returned to New York at the height of the American Abstract Expressionist movement. He settled with his new family in Brooklyn and, after participating in a series of grass-roots galleries opened with fellow artists, he opened the Armory Gallery and studio in Manhattan. He also exhibited in other Manhattan galleries and at the National Arts Club.
In 1961, De Martis was awarded the prestigious Emily Lowe Award for Painting. This led to to shows at the Ward Egglestone, ROKO, Pierantonio and Artemis West galleries from 1962-68. He then returned to Europe to participate in a group show in Florence. Upon his return, he opened the Brownstone Gallery in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, where he exhibited his own and others’ works until 1988.
James De Martis exhibited widely and with success including at one-man shows in Tokyo, Brooklyn, New York, Sarasota, Florida, San Francisco and Santa Fe.
Select Exhibitions:
1953 Brodighera, Italy
1954 Galerie an der Reuss, Lucerne, Switzerland
1955 La Casa di Dante, Florence, Italy
1956 Walden School, New York, New York
1957 Bottega 57 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1960, 61 Hicks Street Gallery, Brooklyn New York
1960 Heights Casino, Brooklyn, New York
1961 Ward Eggleston Gallery, New York, New York
1962 Ray Gallery, Brooklyn New York
1962 Pietroantonio Gallery, New York, New York
1962,3,5,7 Armory Gallery, New York, New York
1965 Brooklyn Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1966,9 Brooklyn Heights Association
1967 Roko Gallery, New York, New York
1970,3,4,5,8,9,83 Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1972 Artemis East Gallery, New York, New York
1975 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1977 Marcoleo Gallery, New York, New York
1978 Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
1989,91,92 Gallery Gion Tokyo, Japan
1994 Private show, Sarasota, Florida
1995 Private show, San Francisco, California
1995 Private show, Copake, New York
1996 Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
May, 2018 Retrospective show, Ashawagh Hall...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Body in the Field #6 - Green, Canvas, Landscape, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #6, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Notre Dame de Paris II
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris II', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). One of two paintings of Notre Dame by this artist held by our gallery, it is also an absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. This version uses more exaggerated brushstrokes with strong colours attesting to its expressionist roots. Notre Dame is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in the city. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower right hand corner. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Swiss Mountain by Karl Speglitz - Watercolor 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Dimension with pass
31.7 x 24 cm
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Small Seascape Watercolor, "Blue Surf" 2023
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original watercolor seascape by Southern California artist Cathy Surgeoner. It is 8" x 8" x 2" and is already framed. A certificate of authenticity will follo...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Algerian French Vibrant Colorful Expressionist Beach Scene Oil Pastel Drawing
By Armand Henri Nakache
Located in Surfside, FL
Armand Nakache was the foremost champion of Expressionism in France, an area unfairly shunned by a society more attracted to the charms of classical painting, Impressionism, Post-Imp...
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20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Beautiful Blond Girl with Elves - Arts and Crafts - Glasgow Girls
Located in Miami, FL
A fantasy scene with Elves and a beautiful girl lost in thought at the base of a tree. Elizabeth Mary Watt, G.S.W.A. In 1919, she was elected as ...
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1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
Body in the Field #4 - Green, Red, Drawing, Color pencil
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #4, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #5 - Blue, Red, Drawing, Color pencil
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #5, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract harbor scene with boats, in bold, vivid colors on heavy mould made paper.
Hand signed and dated, 1980
22 X 30 not frame
Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he was six. Early in his childhood, his love for drawing, painting and studying became apparent, and as an adult, he continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design, Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design. In Paris, France he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bob Freiman was especially focused on painting portraits and figures in motion in various mediums, especially the mixed-media combination of watercolor, acrylic and pen. Among his subjects were acrobats, ballet dancers, cyclists and other athletes. He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.
In the latter part of his career, his style became abstract and surreal with images of metaphysical landscapes with architectural elements such as arches, towers, pyramids and castles floating in the air. The famed art critic Pierre Rouve wrote: “It is therefore refreshing to see them revitalized by the colourist wealth and virile handwriting of Robert Freiman, probably the best American water-colorist since John Marin. He worked in Provincetown and Nantucket and regularly exhibited there. He showed at Doll & Richards gallery of Boston alongside John Chetcuti, Lloyd Goodrich, Tod Lindenmuth, William Meyerowitz, Dwight Shepler, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Stanley Woodward, Andrew Wyeth, and others. His work bears the influence of the mid century school of Paris in particular Jean Carzou. He was a regular exhibitor at the Sidewalk Art...
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1980s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Body in the Field #7 - Contemporary, Blue, Red, 21st Century, Drawing on Canvas
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #7, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body throu...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #14 - Contemporary, Green, Red, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #14, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #15 - Contemporary, Red, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #15, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #13 - 21st Century, Red, Orange, Green, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #13, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed and dated on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his work...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Canvas
Body in the Field #10 - Contemporary, Red, Yellow, Green, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #10, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Quay by the Bridge in Paris
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
'Quay by the Bridge in Paris', watercolour on art paper, by Roland Dubuc (circa 1970s-80s). The broad Parisian river Seine divides the city into the left and right banks. The Left Bank, or Rive Gauche is famous for the Latin Quarter while the Right Bank is better known for attractions like Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre, and the Louvre. A trip here simply isn’t complete without a stroll along this romantic river. And a cruise on the Seine or drinks aboard an anchored boat along the quay is a wonderful experience as well. The artist Dubuc created many artworks with the Seine as backdrop. You can have this one right in your living room. In good overall condition, the piece is newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. Upon request a video of the painting may be provided.
About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cloudy Sunset, Coney Island, wildly colorful abstract sky, water, beach
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says:
When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherm...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Fireworks Lights in Sky Blue Diptych, Handmade Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Fireworks Lights" is a minimal cyanotype diptych that shows path of the fireworks over the sky.
Details:
+ Title: Firew...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Dye Transfer, L...
Jewish Family
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Jewish Family" 1968 is an acrylic and ink on wove paper by noted Lithuanian artist Boris Deutsch, 1892-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left corner by the...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel Israeli Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a great Judaica Israel landscape. The Old City of Jerusalem during the British Mandate in Palestine.
24.5 x 31 image 16 x 22.5
Isidor Ascheim (איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox, Judaic, Jewish family and served during World War I. In 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the German Expressionist Otto Mueller in Breslau and was influenced by Erich Heckel of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1940 and settled in Jerusalem. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.
He taught at the Bezalel School of Art (amongst his students were David Palombo, David Rakia, Aharon Bezalel, Kopel Gurwin and more) and served as its director for several years. He also taught at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv along with Moshe Mokadi. Marcel Janco and Aaron Giladi. Ascheim's art is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots. He was a contemporary of Jacob Steinhardt, Mordecai Ardon, Josef Budko and Hermann Struck.
Awards and recognition
In 1953, Ascheim was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.
In 1955, he received the Jerusalem Prize for Art.
In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale, Italy
Selected collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
References
Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints [Izidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim] . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
Talpir, Gabriel. "100 Artists in Israel". Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin, Germany (in what is now Poland) in 1891. His father was a prosperous merchant. In spite of his family’s devoutness, Ascheim had both religious training at home and an education in a German school. In 1903 the family moved to Breslau, where he studied in the gymnasium. When War War I broke out, he was drafted into the German army. In 1918, when the war ended, he began studying art in Breslau, and then in Cracow. In 1939 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel under the auspices of the Aliyah Bet program. He was caught by the British government and sent to the Atlit detention camp for about seven months. After he was released he settled in Jerusalem and found employment as a lecturer at the “New Bezalel.” In 1946 he married the painter Margot Lange Ascheim. From 1960-1961 he served as director of the “New Bezalel.”
Most of Ascheim’s work was in the field of prints. In the 1920s he also produced engravings. Later he specialized in stone printing (lithography), including Biblical subjects, landscapes, and expressionist subjects. In addition, he painted.
Education
1919-1923 Art Academy, Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland) with Otto Mueller, an important expressionist painter.
Art studies, Professor Pautsch, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
Teaching
1943 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, was director for some time.
1961-1960 Director, New Bezalel, Jerusalem
Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv1944
Artists: Hermann Struck,Moshe Ziffer...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Small Boat and Bather in Dinard
By Jean Pons
Located in London, GB
'Small Boat and Bather in Dinard', gouache and charcoal on art paper, by French artist, Jean Pons (1961). Painted in a naïve style, the piece dep...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Jean Dufy, 1925 watercolour painting of the port of Le Havre, France
By Jean Dufy
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dufy (French, 1888 – 1964)
Vue de port du Havre, circa 1925
Watercolour on paper
Signed ‘Jean Dufy’ (lower right) and inscribed on the reverse
19.1/4 x 23.1/4 in. (48.5 x 59 cm....
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fulton Street, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Fulton Street (P5.31)
Year: 1961
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Sudden Shower
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Gabriel 1946. SUDDEN SHOWER. / SUNSHINE. WIND AND RAIN’ (lower edge)
5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Port of Le Havre
By Fred Pailhès
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Le Havre', pencil on art paper, by French artist Fred Pailhès (circa 1950s). Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I h...
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1950s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Pastel, Ink Drawing Rocks And Cloud Landscape Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Landscape
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol)
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
“Ben-Zion has his hands on the pulse of the common man and his natural world”
As he emerged as an artist Ben-Zion never lost his gift for presenting the ordinary in ways that are vital, fresh and filled with emotions that are somber and exhilarating, joyous and thoughtful, and ultimately, filled with extraordinary poetic simplicity.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952).
Along with ben Shahn, William Gropper, Chaim Gross and Abraham Rattner he was an influential mid century Jewish American...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Notre Dame de Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). An absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. It is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in Paris. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower left hand corner. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism
Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles
Bonhams,
Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pencil
Beachscape Watercolor on Laid Paper by Rene Genis
By René Genis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rene Genis, French (1922 - 2004)
Title: Beachscape
Medium: Watercolor on Laid Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 10 x 16 inches
Frame Size: 15 x 21 inches
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
David Smith Sulzer Engineering Works I Switzerland Watercolor Modern British Art
By David Smith
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Secret Garden, Portal, colorful pastel on paper, abstracted flower pattern
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper
Ms. Morgan says:
During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Secret Garden, Iris, colorful abstracted floral pastel on dark paper
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper
Ms. Morgan says:
During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Secret Garden, White Lilies, colorful pastel painting on toned paper
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says:
During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Lights, Parachute Jump and Smile, Coney Island, colorful historic amusement park
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says:
When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Parachute Jump, Shooting Rays, Coney Island
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Thunderbolt, Coney Island, colorful pastel with historic amusement park
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherm...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Pastel
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