Expressionist Art
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
"Aus der Tierlegende" original woodcut
By Franz Marc
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Lankheit 831-3. Published in 1919 for Genius. Image size: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (198 x 240mm). This is a very richly inked impression pri...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
bejeweled
Located in Chicago, IL
The ethereal beauty of gems captured in this oil painting of an exquisite gold sewn bracelet featuring extravagant materials in content and paint - pearls, ruby, citron and aquamarin...
Category
Late 19th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Pigment
Running Man 1 by Katya Tsareva - Triptych painting, acrylic on canvas, 2017
Located in Basel, BS
Running Man 1 is a vertical triptych, formed of 3 paintings, 40 x 50 cm each.
The triptych can be seen as a follow-up on Katya Tsareva's 2016 project "S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seated nude with Face in Profile - Pencil Drawing - female Nude
By Alexej Jawlensky
Located in London, GB
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941
Torzhok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden (Russian/German)
Title: Seated nude with Face in Profile Sitzender Akt mit Gesicht im Profil, 1912
Technique: Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper
Paper size: 50 x 40 cm. / 19.7 x 15.7 in.
Additional Information: This drawing is signed in pencil by the artist “A v Jawlensky” at the lower right image.
It is dated in pencil “1912”, at the lower left image.
Provenance: Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover
Sotheby's London, 28 June 1978. Lot 176.
Jacqueline Kohler-Krotoschin, Zurich
Beurret & Bailly, Basel, 20 June 2018. Lot 107.
Exhibited: “Zwischen Tradition und Moderne”. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover. 1975. Recorded as no. 222, cat. 14 (Illustrated).
Literature: 1. Weiler,C. (1970) Alexej Jawlensky...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Pencil
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - Walk
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
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Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Devotion
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait in Rheinland-Pfalz
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
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 9
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE IV
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
KOONESS/1STDIBS/ARTPRICE/...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die Benno Kirche - Benno Church
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
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Manhattanhenge Phenomenon, Mystical Light Setting Sun, Manhattan Solstice
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been chronicling lighting effects in New York for over 50 years. This recent photography captures the magical moment of golden light pouring into 42nd street while...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 1
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Ensemble
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Art, family affairs
Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Flowers Cannes, 2000s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 516, 1980s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Nudes and Horses
By Bela Kadar
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956
Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian)
Title: Nudes and Horses, 1911
Technique: Original Hand Signed Pastel on paper
size: 63 x 94.5 cm / 24.8 x 37.2 in
Additional I...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Pastel
Masturbating Woman Surrounded by Black
Located in Chicago, IL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and dated in the plate by the artist in middle right: ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper
Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady
French School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Stylish ex...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Hands)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Ya...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Etching
Porthtowan winter swimmers, beach, costal, swimming, Cornwall, people, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Porthtowan winter swimmers is an Original painting by Eleanor Woolley Painted on the beach in Porthtowan this painting depicts some cold water swimmers braving the water. The headlan...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Madonna of Notre Dame
Located in Täby, SE
This is a unique sculpture made of a bulding block in limestone from Notre Dame in 1949 by Einar Norman.
Gustav Einar Norman, born 12 February 1896 in Avesta, died 28 October 1950 i...
Category
1940s Expressionist Art
Materials
Limestone
Stream Channel with Yellow Woods
By Gandy Brodie
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil pastel and gouache on paper
An artist whose work was simultaneously figurative and abstract, Brodie was praised as "one of the best painters of his generation" by art historian, ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
drawing Andre
Located in London, GB
Several Anastasia Kurakina's artworks have been included into the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
She has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London at bp portrait aw...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Paper
"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Red Roses and a Lemon', California, Post-Impressionist, Esalen Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ant McNaught' for Anthony McNaught (American, born 1952), titled 'Still Life with Lemon', dated 2018 and inscribed, 'After Pablo Picasso'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist studied at Big Sur's Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Three Irises by the pond 40X30 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
With vigorous strokes and a vibrant palette, I've brought to life the fleeting beauty of blooms by the water's edge. This oil painting is my ode to nature's serene moments, where the...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance Moves, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting captures a lively scene where a group of people dances joyfully, lost in the music with closed eyes. Their vibrant clothing and fluid movements inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Pharaoh Group" Oil Painting 13" x 17" inch (1955) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pharaoh Group" Oil Painting 13" x 17" inch (1955) by Shaaban Zaki
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was distinguished f...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Auction
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
The Yellow Bouquet seated female figure with flowers soft yellow and pink
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Jute
The Lovers, Lithograph by Leon Golub
By Leon Golub
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leon Golub, American (1922 - 2004)
Title: The Lovers
Year: 1992
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 52/90
Size: 30 x 22.5 in. (76.2 x 57.15 cm)
Category
1990s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delicate dandelions 30X40
Located in Sempach, LU
This work symbolizes our wonderful, beautiful and fragile, like a crystal world.
The magic field of solar dandelions from which it is impossible to take your eyes off.
A short moment...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Francis
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
original watercolour on paper
One of a kind
hand signed
2024
Collective exhibitions:
2023 London biennale, Chelsea, Old Town Hall;
2023 YICCA Inte...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991, original lithograph by Jean Jansem
By Jean Jansem
Located in Carouge GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à droite
66 x 47 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Imprime...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Late Night at the Studio", interior, factory, teal, blue, yellow, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
“Late Night at The Studio” by Catherine Picard-Gibbs is an Expressionist interior factory scene in a palette of teal-blue and yellow. This evocative 18 x 24 inch oil on panel painting focuses on light pouring out from the haunting depths of an empty hallway. This textural artwork is framed in a silver crackle floater frame with a black interior, making the framed size 19 x 25 x 1.5 inches.
Catherine Picard-Gibbs paints with bold brush strokes, using vibrant colors to show emotion and movement in landscapes and urban scenes. Her inspiration comes from the nuance and drama of her everyday world. Her evocative works have been featured throughout Massachusetts, in New York, and in the Midwest. Picard-Gibbs is represented by Fountain Street Gallery...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
FACE OF THE NIGHT(Octavio Paz)Lithograph on Arches Paper, Abstract Expressionist
Located in Union City, NJ
FACE OF THE NIGHT (For Octavio Paz) is a limited run lithograph exhibition poster printed in multiple colors using traditional hand lithography techniques (not a photo reproduction) ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sheryl Roberts, A Distant Stillness, Original Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sheryl Roberts
A Distant Stillness
Original Painting
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Signed
Sold Framed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look).
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Bouquet of lilacs 40Х40 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil on canvas, I've poured my soul into capturing the delicate dance of lilacs, their colors bursting with life. Each stroke represents an emotion, a breath of passion. I mel...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'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 ...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Resting Nude Lithograph
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Resting Nude, limited edition color litho. 450/475, pencil signed
11"x14" framed 19.5x23.5x1
Itzchak Tarkay was born in 1935 in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border. In 1944, ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beautiful wave 40X60 oil on canvas
Located in Sempach, LU
For those who love the sea, any wave is the most beautiful.
Every moment of the sea element is unique. He is unique and unique and this wave is also unique because it lives only for ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red poppies 40Х40 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil painting, I've poured my passion into every brushstroke, capturing the wild spirit of nature through a vibrant dance of reds and subdued background hues. My expressionist...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nantes Seaport
By Robert L.P. Lavoine
Located in Pasadena, CA
Robert L. P. Lavoine is a French painter born in 1916 and dead in 1999.
Known for his sea landscapes and urban landscapes, he is associated with the expressionist current of the twe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
City flower garden
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the harmony of nature amidst an urban soul. The textured strokes and vibrant colors evoke a sense of growth and renewal, crea...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chagall, Tribe of Asher, Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted; text on verso, as issued. Notes: From the vo...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Oranges. Montilla Oil on canvas. Orange, Yelow, Fuchsia Expressionist Still-Life
Located in Segovia, ES
"Oranges" oil on canvas. Expressionist colorful still life.
Measurements: (H) 61 x (W) 46 x (D) 2 cm.
Framed: (H) 81 x (W) 66 x (D) 4 cm
Expressionist still life with ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Anastasia Kurakina painting on canvas devotion
Located in London, GB
Artist: Anastasia Kurakina
abstract painting on canvas
hand signed
one of a kind
unique piece
50x50cm
large abstract brush strokes
vivid colours
blue, ochre, white, beige,gold
Anast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Expressionist Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Expressionist floral still life painting. Oil on canvas measuring 14 x 20 inches, 18 x 24 inches framed.
Frame is from the 1960's but the canvas is clearly much older, ca...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Le port de Sète (South of France) - Oil on canvas, 66x92 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France.
François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century oil painting of Venice by French artist Clement Serveau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful and bold composition of La Cad'oro in Venice with clear blue skies above and a cubist reflections of the buildings below in different shades of blues and turquoises.
H...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mountain Pastoral original serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Mountain Pastoral is a limited edition original serigraph no. 58/170 with deckle edges in excellent condition and signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen mountain Grap...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
From Somewhere Deep Inside
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube.
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
New York City, view from Brooklyn
Located in Chicago, IL
Looking northeast from downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan can be seen at sunset, glowing in saturated red and yellow, here depicted with vermillion and lead-tin orange. Lapis lazuli blue l...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Pigment
Midnight Sun Lofoton, Norway
Located in Chicago, IL
In northern Norway the midnight sun sets over the stillness of a strange dusk that will rise again in moments. Surrounded by mysterious dark mountains and unbelievable views of the a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Pigment, Oil
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