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
Promising Future
Located in New York, NY
This enigmatic painting is part of one of the most recent body of works by Petrov. His more typical palette of purples and blues is here abandoned for a subdued composition that uses...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Equilibrium in the High Wire
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leandro Velasco, Colombian (1933 - )
Title: Equilibrium in the High Wire
Year: 1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm)
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Carnival Figures', New York Exhibited Oil, Mid-century Woman Artist, Theater
By Dorothy Ebenstein
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Ebenstein' titled verso, 'Seduction' and painted circa 1966. Accompanied by 1966 exhibition label from Barzansky Galleries, New York.
A substantial, Expression...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mujer de Juchitan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1915 - 2006)
Title Mujer de Juchitan
Year: 1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l., signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 25.5 x 37.25 in. (64.77 x 94...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sing it Cindy or High C
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Sing it Cindy, or High C.
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
The Annunciation
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on paper by American female artist Jackie Felix from the artist Blue Mary period. This work is currently featured in the exhibition at Benjaman Gallery "Over the...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Oil Painting Titled: Bacall
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Custom framed
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Gothic Window, " Acrylic on Masonite signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Gothic Window" is an original acrylic painting on masonite board by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece on the back. This painting depicts a geometric and abstracted renderin...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Genesis II
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to premier for the first time in more than twenty years, the paintings of Austrian/American artist Gustav Rehberger (1910–1995).
...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
L'enlèvement d'Europe
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hathor
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brighter Days
Located in New York, NY
This enigmatic painting is part of one of the most recent body of works by Petrov. His more typical palette of purples and blues is here abandoned for a subdued composition that uses...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meditadora en Fuschia
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Carmen Gutierrez painting "Meditadora en Fuschia".
mixed media on wood.
Signed by the artist.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
Ballets Russes
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Contemporary Art by Gabriel Pena - Zonnebloemen
Located in Paris, IDF
Zonnebloemen
2018
Oil on canvas
122 x 122 cm
Signed on reverse
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Linda Holt: Recent Koi & Abstractions"
By Linda Holt
Located in Wellesley, MA
NOTE: The painting on the left of this diptych has been sold however it can
be replaced with the 30" x 40" ("Two Koi June") pictured individually as an
added image. It's the one w...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Iris
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Demasiado
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Carmen Gutierrez painting "Demasiado".
Oil on canvas.
Signed by the artist.
23.6 x 31.5 in. image.
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mexican Contemporary Artist Ricardo Ramirez - Pensativo
By Ricardo Ramírez
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Pensativo
Ricardo Ramírez Rodríguez
Mixed Media on Canvas
80 x 100 cm
2007, MX
Unframed
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Tree Glyph #14
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original Encaustic & collage over oil on panel by American contemporary artist Mark Lavatelli from the artist's Tree Glyph series created in 2006.
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Panel
They found the pike but it wasn’t alone
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil, oil stick and charcoal diptych painting on canvas by Contemporary female artist Dorothy Fitzgerald.
This monumental work measures 60" (h) x 120" (w)
This work was featured in the recent exhibition of The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
'Fishing Boats Off Monterey', Carmel, California Expressionist Seascape, Big Sur
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, "Canete", for Robert Canete, a Carmel artist who studied with Vincent Rascon in the 1960s and, later, with Dwight Miller at Stanford.
A colorful Expressionist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
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
Hugó Scheiber Pastel "Sailing", about 1930
Located in Berlin, DE
Pastel and carbon pencil on cardboard, ca. 1930 by Hugo Scheiber. Signed lower left: Scheiber H.
Dimensions: 14.96 x 12.99 in ( 38 x 33 cm ), Framed: 19.69 x 15.75 in ( 50 x 40 cm )
Hugo Scheiber born 1873 Budapest - he died 1953...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Pastel, Cardboard
Arch and Pole - Square Figurative Painting with Earth Colors
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Arch and Pole is a 11.8 x 12-inch ink, oil, and pencil painting on board. It oscillates between figuration and abstraction, in a tridimensional space alternating b...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board, Oil, Pencil
Hugó Scheiber Theater Scene with a Dancer, Gouache ca. 1920
Located in Berlin, DE
Gouache on paper, 1920's by Hugò Scheiber ( 1873-1950 ) Hungary. Signed with pencil lower central: Scheiber H.
Framed under glass. Height: 25.98 in ( 66 cm ), Width: 19.69 in ( 50 c...
Category
1920s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
"Fish" Watercolor cm. 18 x 14 1937
Located in Torino, IT
Fish,red,yellow,sea, animals
Italian 1937
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 La Coupole de Montparnasse (from Kisling to Pascin, from Derain to Vlaminck). He is considered one of most representative exponents of the Turin’s artistic scene in the ‘30s-‘40s, close to the Gruppo dei Sei. His works can be found in the following museums:
Turin, Modern Art Gallery...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Faces, Expression, Depicting Calmness Serenity, Mixed Media, Sekhar Kar"In Stock"
By Sekhar Kar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Re. the works :
These are a set of 9 works of size 14 x 11 inches ( unframed work size ) .
To get the best out of them we recommend placing them together in interesting ways . Few ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Primer, 2001, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan creates works of art focused on building a visual language. Primer is a large acrylic on canvas painting that was painted during the attacks on NYC on 9/11. She used the alphabet as a metaphor, as a way towards communicating anew with one another.
The alphabet is a recurring theme in Fagan's work, ranging from interactive, ColorSoundGrammar works to painting, sculpture, lost languages...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Kathleen Vance, Newtown Creek Triptych, 2017, Gesso, Ink, Acrylic Paint, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Face, Expression, Mood, Depicting Calmness, Mixed Media, Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Sekhar Kar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sekhar Kar - Untitled - 14 x 11 inches ( unframed size )
Mixed media on board
** Delivered in parcel form mounted but not framed.
Style : Sekhar Kar paintings depict men and women...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Cancer Dentist
By Rob Lynch
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on MDF by contemporary conceptual painter Rob Lynch.
This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise money for Th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
'Fishermen's Cottages, Old Monterey', California Expressionist, Stanford, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center left, 'Canete' for Robert Canete and painted circa 2000.
A vibrant Expressionist-style marine painting showing an aerial view of a sailing boat rounding a headland bes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Hello Loretta
By Rob Lynch
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on MDF by contemporary conceptual painter Rob Lynch.
This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise money for Th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
'Ponies Dancing' California Post-Impressionist, San Francisco Art Association
By Clement Samuel Wilenchick
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Wilenchick' for Clement Samuel Wilenchick (American, 1900-1957) and painted circa 1955.
A dynamic, post-impressionist oil showing horses frolicking together agai...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
'Hidden Cove, Carmel', Expressionist California Coastal Landscape Oil, Monterey
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Canete' for Robert Canete and painted circa 2000.
A vibrant Expressionist-style marine painting showing a view of a Cypress overlooking a California beach.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
'Spring Landscape', Paris, Danish Post-Impressionist oil, Charlottenborg Palace
By Ejnar Kragh
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, sunlit landscape showing a fruit-tree in blossom in the foreground with verdant fields receding towards rolling hills beneath turquoise and lavender clouds.
Signed ...
Category
1940s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tobie et l'Ange
Located in Miami, FL
Tobie et l'Ange (Tobias and the angel) is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This colorful expressionist painting is inspired from an eponym altar painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man
By Emmanuel Mane-Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz circa 1950. An expressionist style portrait of a man with a forlorn expression in dark gray and red tones.
A...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Blue Scarfed Woman - Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract figurative of a figure in a blue scarf by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.)From a collection of his works. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishermen by the Boats - Maritime Seaside Coastal
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Fishermen by the Boats, circa 1941
Techinique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 51 x 61 cm / 20.1 x 24 in
Additional Information: The work is signed "Mane Katz" on the right hand side.
This work was painted circa 1941.
Provenance:
Graham Gallery...
Category
1940s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Waves off the Coast', Monterey, California, Large Modernist Seascape
By Alberto Conti
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "A. Conti" for Alberto Conti (Italian, 1895-1982) and painted circa 1960.
A dramatic Expressionist style coastal scene showing a view of a breaking wave off the c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life, Oranges in White Plate
Located in New York, NY
Nadezhda "Nadya" Yakustidi, is a Russian artist, currently residing and working in Athens, Greece. Nadya was born in 1967 in Stavropol, Russia. She is a distinguished awardee of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
"São Paulo" by Enzio Wenk, 2004 - Acrylic on Cardboard, Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on press-prepared canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Walter Wellenstein Oil Painting Verfallener Palazzo Im Mondlicht, 1940
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, 1940 by Walter Wellenstein, Germany. Signed and dated lover right: Wellenstein 40.
Verso by hand described ( title, name and date ). Framed. Height: 11.02 in ( 28 cm ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heinrich Richter-Berlin Oil Painting Tiger Training, 1979
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on cardboard, 1979 by Heinrich Richter-Berlin ( 1884-1981 ), Germany. Signed and dated lower left: Richter-Berlin, Nov. 79.
Signed, dated and inscribed verso. Framed. Height: 21...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
'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
C'est le Passe que Nous Attendons
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Theo Tobiasse from 1967. An expressionist-style textural painting of intensely dark and vivid color palette. Inspired from the artist's personal experiences of the...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Angel's language
Located in Miami, FL
Angel's language is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. In this sign series, the artist explores a world of signs, symbols and spirituality. Her disti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fighters
By Erwin Guillermo
Located in Delray Beach, FL
The Fighters.
Signed and dated lower left, also signed and titled on reverse.
Erwin Guillermo was born in Guatemala City in 1951. He is one of the best representatives of Guatemalan Art...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lotus
Located in Miami, FL
Lotus is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibratin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life, Yellow Flowers in Red
Located in New York, NY
Nadezhda "Nadya" Yakustidi, is a Russian artist, currently residing and working in Athens, Greece. Nadya was born in 1967 in Stavropol, Russia. She is a distinguished awardee of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Concert
Located in Miami, FL
Concert is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting to show how she feels the musical...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
2.23.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, n...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Bee utiful Sunny Delight #4 – By Lucy Moore
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
original
Acrylic on Linen
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an in...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
French Expressionist Provençal Landscape, Plateau au Verdon
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Expressionist Provençal landscape, oil on board, by French artist Jean Arène (1929 - 2020), depicting a Provençal, South of France landscape. The painting is signed bottom rig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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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.
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