Expressionist Paintings
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
'Words to the Wise', African American Memento Mori, Skeletons, Bay Area, Black
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on palette, lower right, 'John Diallo Jones' (American, 20th century) and dated 1992.
A dramatic figural oil showing the artist flanked by two whispering skeletons, one of wh...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Road Trip Up The Coast" Modern Expressionist Figurative
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Road Trip Up The Coast" is from Sandra Jones Campbell's recent Summer collection, a series that displays her unique vision of the world and is informed by her current social observ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pocket Green Fig and Pocket Gooseberry by Dani Humberstone- fruit- figurative
Located in Deddington, GB
original
Oil on Canvas
Image size: H:5 cm x W:5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:5 cm x W:5 cm x D:3cm
Frame Size: H:16 cm x W:16 cm x D:3.5cm
if sold together would be H:5 and W...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - By the White Walls
Located in Bristol, GB
BY THE WHITE WALLS
Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A simple yet sophisticated mid-century modernist style painting, executed in oil onto canvas by the established S...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
She's Always Behind My Back -21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Love, Family
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The painting is about the human relationship between brothers and sisters, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. How they fought, stood, and supported each other with love, shari...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Piebalga. Oil on canvas, 67x47 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Arijs Skride (1906.24.IX Madonna parish – 1987.22.XI Riga), painter.
Arijs Skride was born into a farmer's family. Wife Gundega Vaska – graphic artist.
At the age of 15, he passed ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Like Swimming In A Quarry. Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Like Swimming In A Quarry - 120 feet and dark in the middle. One of Wadsworth's celebrated & innovative Black Cloth series. His sitters pose with a large black cloth & talk about wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
In Her Solace - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In such a world, so chaotic. Snares and spells revolving. Finding one’s peace can be very demanding. Living life, very.
Man cannot live without a pacifier, one that helps him recove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Lady, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Red Lady
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Paper Size: 25 x 1...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Fauve Nude in Interior', Copenhagen, GothenberDanish Expressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed with initials lower left, 'H.V.S.' for Hans Voigt Steffensen (Danish, born 1941) and painted circa 1985. Additionally signed, and titled, 'Charlotte'...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Floral Still Life Signed Springer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty vintage oil painting on canvas of a still life with vases, leaves and flowers executed in an expressionist modern style, signed Springer in the lower right and presented in a g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large-Scale Modern Argyle Abstract
By D.S. Silver
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical large-scale abstract presenting a modernist take on old-fashioned argyle shapes with contemporary color palate by D.S. Silver (American, 20th Century), a San Francisco, Cal...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
'Camille VI', Fauve Figural of Young Woman, California Post Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Ant McNaught', (American, born 1952), titled 'Camille VI', and dated 2018-2020.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist artist has studied at the Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Impressions" (2023) By John McCaw, Expressionist Mixed Media Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Impressions" is a beautiful original expressionist mixed media on board painting that depicts poppies and stems growing upwards, resting in a shelf on of art...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Young Woman Fetching Water oil on canvas painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Young Woman Fetching Water
Artist: Jesús Villar (1930–2015)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 39.4 x 20.1 in
Estimated date: c. 2000
Signature: Signed lower left: "Villar...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raventos Landscape of Vineyar Big expressionist mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
landscape of vineyar - original expressionist mixed media painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Take the Cannoli food still life Italian pastry delicious tasty sweet treats
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil paint on wood with a rough stippled texture. the artist sometimes primes his painting surfaces with a sand like material for a coarse texture. this part of his continuing series ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flatlander"- Horizontal expressionist female nude with landscape in background.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Helen Howells. Morning Walk, Original Landscape Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Morning Walk [2021]
Original
Landscapes and seascapes
Oil on Canvas
Image size: H:75 cm x W:120 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:75 cm x W:120 cm x D:3.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Blue Nude in Profile - Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold and expressive oil portrait of a modernist nude figure in blue seated in profile with bright yellow flowers by Allie William “Bill” Skelton (American, 1942-1986). Signed and dated "Allie Bill Skelton '72" by the artist in the lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 48.75"H x 32.75"W.
Allie William “Bill” Skelton (American, 1942-1986) was a painter and sculptor active in San Francisco who was involved in the gay art...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Richard Milhouse Nixon', Carmel Art Association, Oakland Art Museum, Monterey
By Dick Crispo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'D. Crispo' for Dick Crispo (American, born 1945) and dated 1972.
Dick Crispo has presented 76 one-man shows and won 36 awards for his artistry, including a gold...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Old City
Located in Zofingen, AG
Town.
The beauty of cities is different: there are cities with museums, such as Rome, Paris.
Where to look at beautiful architecture!
There are also small provincial towns where lif...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
City After the Rain 2
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this energetic creation, I've blended acrylics and oils to capture the vivid aftermath of rain in a bustling cityscape. This piece revels in the chaos and vibrancy of urban life, ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
Still life with tulips. Cardboard, oil, 85x74 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with tulips. Cardboard, oil, 85x74 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Meeting at Sea
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this painting, I sought to capture the serene yet mystifying dance of light upon the sea, juxtaposing the ancient grace of the sailboat with the robust charm of the fishi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard
Evening Bay
Located in Zofingen, AG
The canvas is glued onto thick cardboard.
In this painting, I poured my fascination with the interplay of light on water, using acrylic and oil to capture the ephemeral glow of sunse...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard
Untitled
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original expressionist painting by American female artist Jackie Felix.
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After the rain. Paris. Oil on canvas, 54, 5x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
After the rain. Paris. Oil on canvas, 54,5x80 cm
Street in Paris with people
Gennady Bernadsky (1956) - Soviet and Russian artist.
Gennady Bernads...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Woman Sleeping', Large Modernist Figural Oil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Portland
By Julio Lavallen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Lavallen', dated 1987 and titled verso 'Mujer Dormida' (Woman Sleeping).
A large figural oil painting of a young woman shown reclining on a sofa.
Julio Lavallen...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Small town big time, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on canvas on wooden stretcher, box canvas, signed on the front. Certificate of authenticity included. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled. 1990. Cardboard, tempera. 50.5x39.8cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009)
(May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Nude woman oil on board painting expressionism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Technical Data Sheet of the Artwork
- Title: Nude Woman
- Artist: Eduardo Pisano (1912-1986)
- Technique: Oil on board
- Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.3 inches (without frame)
- Sty...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Somerset Lake by Joanna Commings, Original art, landscape art, Impasto art
Located in Deddington, GB
Somerset Lake by Joanna Commings [2021]
original and hang signed by the artist
Acrylics on canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:60 cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Stavanger, Norway landscape painting. Blue, seascape, boat, mountains, acrylic
Located in Oslo, NO
Stavanger is an inspiring Nordic city surrounded by the sea and mountains. Aleksandra Strokina created this landscape painting, inspired by a view just a 10-minute walk from her home...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
From Somewhere Deep Inside
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Abou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Morning Light" by Shana Wilson - Figurative Nude - Woman with Brown Hair in Bed
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966)
"Morning Light" 2012
Oil Paint, Board
The artist signed the back of the painting.
About the Artist:
Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in 1966, has ca...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Palace Cinema", expressionist, urban, purple, gray, yellow, blue, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
“Palace Cinema” by Catherine Picard-Gibbs is an evocative, urban scene, depicting the remnants of a once thriving cinema, painted in oil with a color palette of purple, gray, yellow ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gypsy, Modern Nude Oil Painting by Maurycy Trebacz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Maurycy Trebacz, Polish (1861-1941)
Title: Gypsy
Year: 1924
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 39 x 27 in. (99.06 x 68.58 cm)
Category
1920s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paullette Fedarb, 'Cedar of Lebanon', oil on canvas circa 1970's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine expressionist oil on canvas by Paullette Fedarb, 'Cedar of Lebanon'. oil on canvas circa 1970's. The painting has an allover medative, rhythmic...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"9 Koi 23" Bright Orange, Yellow, Red, White Koi Swimming in Blue/Green Water
By Linda Holt
Located in Wellesley, MA
"9 Koi 23" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
Located in Dallas, TX
Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958) - Étude pour le Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney. A large specimen painting for Rouault beautifully framed in a shadow fashion making a grandiose ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Woman" Contemporary Figurative in Neon Orange Aromas Artist Frank Thomas Romero
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant contemporary nude figure in neon orange on a purple abstract background by Aromas, California, Monterey Bay Area abstract expressionist artist Frank Romero (American, b-1985)...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Water lilies shine on the surface of the lake, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
, , , blossom, , g,, flower, lotus flowers Flowers in the morning dew The most beautiful flowers are in the early morning. When the dawn just dawned, the petals began to g...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Helen Howells, Light across the Estuary, Original Oil Painting, Seascape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Helen Howells
Light across the Estuary
Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Oil Paint on Canvas
Canvas size: H 76 cm x W 102 cm x D 3.5cm
Sold unfr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Langostina Abstract Figurative by Harold Black New York 1960
By Harold Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Large scale and dramatic, ""Langostina, an abstract painting by Harold Black (American, 1913–1993). Signed lower right and on verso. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 40”H x 22”W. ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SEA, SAILS, MOUNTAIN
Located in Zofingen, AG
As I created this painting, I sought to capture the dynamic interplay between nature and human endeavor. The bold sails against the twilight sky symbolize the courage it takes to emb...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sea, Evening
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I capture the fleeting magic of twilight over the sea. Using expressionist and impressionist techniques, I layered vibrant oil colors to evoke the bold spirit of th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sea, Evening 2
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I capture the fleeting magic of twilight over the sea. Using expressionist and impressionist techniques, I layered vibrant oil colors to evoke the bold spirit of th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sea, Boats
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this artwork, I've captured the vibrant dance of light on water, blending impressionist strokes with the emotive dynamism of expressionism. Using oils, I layered colors to evoke t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Worthy Than a Sparrow 2 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Bird, Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Anxiety is a natural emotion that humans experience. we worry so much about lots of things including life, financial life, what to eat and what to wear and so on. But neither this wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monu...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
A Citizen of the World Expressionist Portrait of Ernst Kirchner German Modernist
Located in Soquel, CA
A Citizen of the World Expressionist Portrait of Ernst Kirchner German Modernist
A bright abstracted portrait and collage by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Braz...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Contemporary Self-Portrait On Brown Original Oil On Canvas
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, and in Major collections - Ellen Degeneres, Ringo Starr, Al Gore and many more.
Harnessing an insatiable desire for artistic discovery, innovation and perfection, he dives into experimentation with openness and enthusiasm. The works he produces as a result are bright, expansive and bold.
Masri has developed a style that captures Mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Artist statement:
"I live four seasons every day - it is a humongous world of perceptions, conceptions, and achievements; a world of renewable psychological input and output fraught with flowing emotions, endurance, and pain. "
Represented by American Art Gallery...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White boat
Located in Zofingen, AG
"In this oil painting, I've captured a solitary boat mirroring life's simplicity. The palpable textures and the interplay of light and shadow reflect an in...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist French Israeli Modern Oil Painting Chelsea Hotel, George Chemeche
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bright, colorful modernist oil painting of a vase of Flowers
A great floral work.
George Chemeche was born in Basra, Iraq in 1934 He emigrated to Israel and studied at th...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lake coast. Oil on board, 35.5x47.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956)
Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927).
He took part in exhibitions since 1925.
Artist painted landscapes in different t...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Buongiorno 4-original figurative abstract female form painting-contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
A contemplative yet energetic composition, Buongiorno 4 captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life with flowers and apples. Oil on paper, 42 x 30. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with flowers and apples. Oil on paper, 42 x 30. 5 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a mon...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Expressionist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, Maria Asuncion Raventos, Masri Hayssam, and Evelyne Ballestra. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.