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
Period: 1990s
Untitled 534, 1990s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Coll Bardolet 24 Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
virtual frame
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Benavente Solís 10 Green Landscape Poppies House in the Countryside original
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
poppies landscape and house original expressionist watercolor painting . framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honora...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Meneses 36 coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
This Catalan painter, settled for years in Mallorca, offers a series of landscapes in which the natural is treated in the imp...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Meneses coast. Marine. original watercolor paper expressionist
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Majorca II original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
This Catalan painter, settled for years in Mallorca, offers a series of landscapes in which the natural is treated in th...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lavra
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Expressive paintings by Yuriy Savchenko, a Ukrainian artist who lived last years of his life in Detroit, MI, are bright, full of life and open a window for the viewer into vibrant sc...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
MEMORIES by Vasili Zianko
Located in Sempach, LU
Based on the real story of the first love..........................................................
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celebration - Mural Size Abstract Expressionist Figures, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Columbus, OH
Hessam Abrishami is a master of vibrant colors, dynamic composition, and powerful expression. Through the artistic encouragement of a high school teacher, Hessam discovered both his ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prohens Almond Blossom Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almendros en Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Onofre was born in Sant Joan Mallorca on March 4, 1930, he decided from a very young age for art in all its facets, designer, dancer,...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Entering the Bus" Expressionist Figurative Composition Original Oil on Canvas
By Jakob Bokulich
Located in Soquel, CA
"Entering the Bus" Expressionist Figurative Composition Original Oil on Canvas
Dynamic figurative composition by Bay area Figural, Abstract expressionist and notable Burning Man art...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Benavente Solis original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original expressionist acrylic painting. Framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honorary Member of the MECOART (Medit...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Prohens Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almendros en Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Onofre was born in Sant Joan Mallorca on March 4, 1930, he decided from a very young age for art in all its facets, designer, dancer,...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Benavente Solis Campo de Amapolas original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original expressionist acrylic painting. Framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honorary Member of the MECOART (Medit...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Benavente Solís . Landscape - original expressionist
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Landscape original expressionist painting. frame
Work of the Spanish artist BENAVENTE SOLIS.
Perfect state .
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it lik...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Copons PARK CIUTADELLA Barcelona Flower Park original acrylic
By Joan Copons
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work of the Spanish artist Joan COPONS.
PARK CIUTADELLA.-Barcelona-jardin. original acrylic painting
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giner Bueno Reparando redes original painting
By Giner Bueno
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Giner Bueno (1935-2000)
Reparando Las Redes
Painter from Alicante, son of the painter Luis Giner Valls.
He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Valencia and finished his stu...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Prohens Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Onofre was born in Sant Joan Mallorca on March 4, 1930, he decided from a very young age for art in all its facets, designer, dancer, antiquarian...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
F. Bueno Puerto de Barcelona original realist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
F. Bueno. Puerto de Barcelona original realist painting
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Giner Bueno playa original painting
By Giner Bueno
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Giner Bueno (1935-2000)
Painter from Alicante, son of the painter Luis Giner Valls.
He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Valencia and finished his studies in Paris, where...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prohens Mallorca 2 original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Mallorca. original acrylic painting
Onofre was born in Sant Joan Mallorca on March 4, 1930, he decided from a very young age for art in all its facets, designer, dancer, antiquarian...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Llabres Vidal Majorca original watercolor paper expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Majorca original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Montull Patio Terrace Garden Flowers oil canvas expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Patio. Original oil canvas expressionist painting
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rafael Riera Venice original watercolor expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Venice original watercolor expressionist painting.
Rafael Griera Calderon (1934)
Rafael Griera Calderón is a contemporary painter born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, although he ha...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ignasi Mundo. Barcelona watercolor original paper expressionist painting
By Ignasi Mundó
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Barcelona watercolor original paper expressionist painting.
framed
MUNDO Ignasi
Ignasi Mundó trained at the School of La Lonja, with Joaquín Mir, Mariano Pidelaserra and Manolo Hugu...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mystic Twilight
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The artist’s masterful use of light and shadow further accentuates the beauty and allure of the roses, casting subtle nuances of color and creating a play of textures. In this evocat...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rafael Griera Blue Fleurs original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Paisaje original expressionist acrylic painting.
Rafael Griera Calderon (1934)
Rafael Griera Calderón is a contemporary painter born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, although he has ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Raventos Dark Blue original expressionist acrylic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Horitzo al mediterrani. original expressionist acrylic painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Commandment 1
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The sculptural artwork is a portrayal of a religious scene, featuring Moses holding the iconic Ten Commandments, infusing the piece with a sense of depth and symbolism.
The rich tex...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Eternal Spring
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The combination of color and impressionistic brushwork and the harmony between the various elements in the painting creates a mesmerizing dance of nature, where every element is thou...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rolling Meadows
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The use of soft tones and impressionistic brushstrokes lends a sense of ethereal beauty to the overall composition. The artist has skillfully created a sense of distance, with the ba...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Llabres Vidal Garden original watercolor paper expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Jardin original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Serene Symphony
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The landscape piece is a stunning representation of a serene and romantic setting, created in a unique impressionistic style. The artist has masterfully captured the essence of natur...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Timeless Elegance
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This stunning bouquet of roses exudes a vibrant energy through the artist's expressive energy. It is a perfect balance between freedom and control, allowing the subject matter to com...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raventos Blue Boat original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Escritura y Barcos original expressionist acrylic painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Roller Coaster – No.3
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Coll Bardolet 24 Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
virtual frame
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Wire City – No.4
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Roller Coaster – No.2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Roller Coaster – No.1
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Benavente Solís 10 Green Landscape Poppies House in the Countryside original
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
poppies landscape and house original expressionist watercolor painting . framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honora...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Wire City – No.3
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Wire City – No.2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Wire City – No.1
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his figurative abstract work, and a technique based on accumulative singular strokes or lines in a chaotic but controlled ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Benavente Solis bullfight original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
bullfight original expressionist acrylic painting. Framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honorary Member of the MECOA...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Meneses Mallorca Coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
This Catalan painter, settled for years in Mallorca, offers a series of landscapes in which the natural is treated in the imp...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled - Contemporary polish art, Expressionistic portrait, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARZENA KAWALEROWICZ
Polish artist. Currently, she lives and works in Warsaw. She has been exhibiting her paintings all over the world. Most important exhibitions were in "Galerie Je...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Bernard Buffet Bridge, Houses and a Café Landscape of Rural France Oil on Canvas
Located in Paris, FR
1993
Oil on canvas.
Signed « Bernard Buffet » upper right and dated « 1993 » upper left.
Dedicated « For Bernard and Dominique. Affectionately » on the reverse.
Countersigned « Berna...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Soviet Avant Garde Judaica Rabbi Playing Violin (the Klezmer Fiddler)
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 24" x 18"
Yuri Yefimovitch Brusovany was born on November, 15th 1949 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Russia. His father was a Jew from Gomel. His mother descended from the prominent family of Samoiloff Actors. This family was well-known all over Russia for a long time. Since 1820 names of the actors from the Samoiloffs' Dynasty never left the theatre posters. It was the largest family tree in the history of Russian scenic art. The central figure in the dynasty was V.V. Samoiloff (1834 - 1877) lived at the same time with Feodor Dostoevsky, Karl Brullov and Leo Tolstoy. V.V. Samoiloff, P.V. Samoiloff and V.A. Michurina-Samoilova were buried at the Alexander Nevsky...
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1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sentimental Whimp
By Gang
Located in Surfside, FL
In this artwork the artist takes a child-like approach at depicting the subject using vibrant colors and painterly brushstrokes. Signed and titled on verso, GANG 2/1990.
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coll Bardolet. Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
virtual frame
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Meneses 36 coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
coast original watercolor paper expressionist painting.
This Catalan painter, settled for years in Mallorca, offers a series of landscapes in which the natural is treated in the imp...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
"Green Horizon" Contemporary Abstract Landscape by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
A Lebanese born, Italian artist ,Masri has developed a style that captures mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch. His work is varied and known e...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulips bouquet. Oil on cardboard, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tulips bouquet. Oil on cardboard, 50x40 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, S...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Landscape with trees. 1991, canvas, cardboard, oil, 34x49 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with trees. 1991, canvas, cardboard, oil, 34x49 cm
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. Skride, L....
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Woman with Candle, Oil Painting by Branko Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman with Candle by Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935)
Date: 1992
Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 21 in. x 18 in. (53.34 cm x 45.72 cm)
Frame Size: 25 x 22 inches
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arzbach - La chiesa nel villaggio
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Woman Looking Out Window, Oil Painting by Brank Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - )
Title: Woman Looking Out Window
Year: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 25.5 in. x 21 ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
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