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
Up Around the Bend, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A neighborhood with New England-style homes embraces a Fauvist treatment, resulting in a stylized landscape with textured underpainting and non-realistic colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modern Liberty, Large-Scale Rainbow Abstract Expressionism
By D.S. Silver
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold, bright, and colorful, this large-scale abstract expressionist piece by D.S. Silver, a San Francisco, California bay area abstract expressionist, explores abstracted modern liberty. A high voltage color palette combined with bold and energetic abstract brushstrokes splashed across the huge canvas...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Raventos Citty original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Manhatan original expressionist acrylic painting.
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barc...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jaume Terrassa Square Green Garden original acrylic canvas painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work by the artist from Mallorca .
Beautiful piece.
Mallorcan artistic painter. He offers us a vision of the placid and calm reality, and a uniformity of tones, gives his w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
September, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
September flourishes at its peak, with trees painted in vibrant autumn hues. A field of grass wraps around the foreground, with a small patch illuminated by s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
R. Poch Women Wuith Light Bulb acrylic painting
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
28.-Women wuith light bulb 130 x 100 cm acrylic painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona).
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the advertising production co...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mid-Century French Oil on Panel. 'The Arrival', Sailboats at Monte Carlo.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century oil on panel view of sailboats in the port of Monte Carlo. The painting carries a monogram of the peace symbol and a date to the back of the panel.
The artist has c...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mansion in the Country, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A two-story mansion undergoes a fauvist transformation with its bright palette, stylized rendering, and expressive paint handling. The alteration of multi-tie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1970'S HUGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - NUDE LADY STILL LIFE COMPOSITION
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1970's, signed lower right
Title: Still Life with Nude; beautiful range of colors.
Medium: very thick impasto oil painting on canvas, unframe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dreamscape, Oil Painting
By Gary Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting features a woman as the central subject, depicted with bold textures and spontaneous brushstrokes. Her white dress against the deep blue backgro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Queen Eniola
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Queen Eniola" is a stunning portrait of an African queen created by the Nigerian artist, Theophilus Madaki. The painting depicts Queen Eniola, a pow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raventos Geometric Figures Golden Browns White
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos. geometric figures. browns . white. expressionist acrylic canvas painting. framed
Raventos trained at the eli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Arroyo Between Nambe & Pojoaque on #113" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry
Located in Denver, CO
"Arroyo Between Nambe & Pojoaque on #113" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry is an original handmade oil painting on linen that depicts an expressionist landscape with an arid riverbed.
A ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Bed of Roses
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Bed of Roses is a Mixed Media painting by Damilola Olusegun. Damilola created "Bed of Roses on a 36W by 48H inches primed canvas.
In Bed of Roses, Damilo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Old Friends Abstract Expressionist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Five figures gathered of old friends--the best friends-- by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection of his works, unsigned. Unframe...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Majestic Mountains, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I was inspired to paint these majestic mountains from Glenorchy, New Zealand because of a painting class I took online. The scene lends itself almost perfectly to a balanced perspec...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Flower Market
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Sheffield, MA
Walt Francis Kuhn
American, 1877-1949
At the Flower Market
Oil on Canvas
15 by 18 in, w/ frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in
Signed lower right
A painter and major organizer of the Armory Show, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Expressionist Oil Elegant Lady looking over Moonlit Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950's
Title: an expressionist painting depicting an elegant lady overlooking a moonlit lake view.
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 13 x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lumberjack's Dream" - Textured Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lumberjack's Dream" - Textured Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Textured abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Brigh...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
The harlequin and the rooster - Oil on wood 35x49 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
New wooden frame with golden patina
58,5 x 45 x 3,5 cm
Illegible signature
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Century Old Adobe, ' by James Cobb, Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This oil on panel painting by James Cobb depicts an adobe house in the backdrop of the New Mexican landscape. The adobe home is shaded in the reds and oran...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Benavente Solís Poppies Red Green Landscape original painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
landscape- original figuratif watercolor painting framed
of the Spanish artist BENAVENTE SOLIS.
Watercolor on paper.
Perfect state .
During its first exhibition in Paris, the Fren...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Setting Sun, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In awe of the images from the James Webb Telescope, artist Diana Elena Chelaru creates a series inspired by the depths of the universe. The mystery and vibran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Old Town. 1980, oil on cardboard, 37x47 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Old Town. 1980, oil on cardboard, 37x47 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
To Forge Peace , Wild Woman Series, colorful powerful nude female figure
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of a powerful woman encouraging us to go forge new pathways to peace.
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Mise en abîme", Painters on the beach - Oil on cardboard 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard with frame.
Total size with frame 58x78 cm
Signed and dated, illegible signature by the gallery
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tableau n°60 by Jean Krillé - Oil on paper and canvas 50x70 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Of Germanic descent, the painter Jean Krillé was born in 1923 in Switzerland. His father, writer and poet, oriented him towards art and culture. From the age of 16, he enrolled at th...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self portrait original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Cruspinera Muñoz was born in 1945 in Tiana, Barcelona. This Catalan artist is a painter, draftsman and painter. His training is extensive and int...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Casademont "le Vieux" Blue Landscape of Castile original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Landscape of Castile original expressionist acrylic painting.
His family was originally from Figueres. He studied industrial engineering and fine arts at the Llotja School and he re...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Berkeley School -- Male Dancer Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful figurative of male ballet dancers by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century), 1980. Signed, titled and dated on verso. Presented in rustic w...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist
By Steve Capper
Located in Preston, GB
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist, Steve Capper
Art measures 20 x 28 inches
Frame measures 25.5 x 33.5 inches
Presented in a high quality black wooden moulding
Steve Capper attended Manchester’s High School of Art in 1955, the Manchester College of Art in 1962 and Bretton Hall College in 1965. He taught painting for thirty years as head of a large art faculty in an Oldham comprehensive school, before taking early retirement in 1996 to concentrate on producing his own work.
Capper produces on-the-spot sketches which are then taken into his studio where he re-works them into a painting. Both his landscapes and his still-life paintings reflect the influences of the cubists and the fauves. The work of Picasso, Braque and Matisse are amongst his major influences.
Capper still lives and works near Oldham, in the Pennines...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
French Countryside Part II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting captures the beauty of the French countryside. I was inspired by the peaceful and vivid colors found in this quaint French village. I depicted t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
I. Mundo Vertical BARCELONA STREET. original watercolor painting
By Ignasi Mundó
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
MUNDO Ignasi
Ignasi Mundó trained at the School of La Lonja, with Joaquín Mir, Mariano Pidelaserra and Manolo Hugué. In 1945 he received a scholarship travels to Paris, and later ma...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Dark Cup on Grey" (2019) By Jon Doran, Original Oil painting
By Jon Doran
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Doran's (UK based) "Dark Cup on Grey" was painting in 2019 and it depicts a grey cup with an abstracted background.
Artist statement:
"I am interested ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tableau n°57 by Jean Krillé - Oil on wood 50x70 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Of Germanic descent, the painter Jean Krillé was born in 1923 in Switzerland. His father, writer and poet, oriented him towards art and culture. From the age of 16, he enrolled at th...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Musical Flow, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this lively and spirited painting, five figures revel in the music and each other's company. Tones of blue and orange embrace their forms as they hit the d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA 20th Century Farm Landscape
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981)
Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA, 1934
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
20 x 24 inches
30 x 34 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small villag...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Paris School Collage Cutout Artwork Wonderful Interior Design options!
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Collage"
by Bernard Herzog (French, b.1935)
signed lower corner
signed and stamped verso with catalogue number
photo collage cut outs on paper, unframed
overall paper: 25.5 x 20 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Magazine Paper
'Cypress Point, ' by James Cobb, Oil on Gesso Board Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This oil on gesso board painting by James Cobb features a lone cypress tree near the California coastline. The expansive angular tree has a coat of thick bright green leaves on the u...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dynamic Dusk, NY-original abstract cityscape PAINTING-ARTWORK- CONTEMPORARY aRT
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Step into the mesmerizing chaos of New York City with Daniel C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Rocky Seascape Overlook, ' by James Cobb, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 16 x 20 oil on canvas by artist James Cobb depicts a rocky coastal overlook featuring a white home perched in the middle ground with a gray, looming mountain range extending acr...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Women in Interior', Large Oil, California Woman artist studied with Picasso
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Zarbano' for Mary Zarbano (American, 1931-2019) and painted circa 1985.
Born in Nebraska, Mary Zarbano received her MFA from Califor...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
More than a thousand words
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this piece, I delved deep into the soulful presence of the equine form, decorating it with elements of nature to symbolize purity and renewal. The oil mediums allowed me ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the sun with mother
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I sought to capture the intimate and serene connection between a mother horse and her foal amidst a splendid golden field. The use of oil enhances the luminosity an...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Relationships and sentiments I, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This was supposed to be an abstract painting like most of my artworks, but suddenly I had this desire to see some persons in it. So I was just drawing the silhouette of them and this...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Yellow odalisque" cm. 15 x 10 1925
Located in Torino, IT
odalisque, yellow, orient
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize...
Category
1920s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harmony of balance - ArmonÃ
Located in Yardley, PA
Although it is an abstract painting, the viewer feels the balance and harmony of a Zen garden and discovers its four elements: stone, moss, water and tree, which are found in symboli...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Copons 11 LANDSCAPE OF MALLORCA original realist acrylic almond trees
By Joan Copons
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work by the Spanish artist Joan COPONS.
Oil on canvas .
Perfect state
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Village Canal, Oil Painting by Stanley Sobossek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Sobossek, American (1918 - 1996)
Title: untitled - Village Canal
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed
Size: 24 x 30 inches (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nambe Reservation" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Nambe Reservation" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry is an original handmade oil painting on linen that depicts an expressionist landscape.
A self-taught landscape oil painter, Duesberry...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Raventos Gig Vertical Barcelona original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"Barcelona" original expressionist acrylic painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Dreaming in Color, Expressionist Reclining Female Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid, multicolored expressionist depiction of a gracefully reclining female figure by Bay Area artist Rick Rodrigues (American, 20th Century). Signed with the artist's symbol lowe...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Triumph Of Love. Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Triumph of Love weaves symbolism with uplifting imagery. The painting is woven with free flowing brush strokes overlaying the canvas to create a stunning piece that is imbued wit...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beauty In African 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
Painting
Charcoal, Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18W x 24H Inches
Unmounted artwork
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Paris before Christmas. Oil on canvas, 49, 5x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris before Christmas. Oil on canvas, 49,5x65 cm
Gennady Bernadsky (1956) - Soviet and Russian artist.
Gennady Bernadsky was born in Simferopol on...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Little Things (Original)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
10” x 6” Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jaspar, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Julia Swaby
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on loose canvas 215cm x 125cm PLEASE NOTE: This comes rolled in a tube and will need to be mounted by your local framers - it is too large to ship mounted. This beau...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
State of Mind 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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.