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
Original-canvas, Golden Period-Benton Irises II, flower, expression, Modern
Located in London, GB
Original Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas on board.
30x 40 x 0.3 CM
-Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork.
-come with an Authenticity Certificate and signed.
About...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
Angie Print Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
original watercolor on paper "Angie" is sold
Print Limited edition hand signed is available
2/27
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Color
TWO CRANES
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN ROTH (Austrian 1891-197)
TWO CRANES ca. 1920
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Image 9 ¾ x 7 1/8 inches. On fine fibrous paper. Full s...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
In Blue
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In Blue, Yes, I'm in blue not because I choose to but because that's who l am and
it tells my story. With a hoodie because I came from this very hood. I drank of
its waters, and bat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
GEFALLEN (Killed in Action)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
GEFALLEN (Killed in Action) 1920 (Klipstein 153 (1st state, a of c of 2 states)
Lithograph on laid paper. Image 16 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches, Large Full Sheet, 25 ½...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Modella" Matita cm. 50 x 70 1962
Located in Torino, IT
Disegno espressionista
Figura femminile
Artista Italiano che ha dedicato la vita all'arte
Edgardo CORBELLI (Torino, 1918 – 1989)
MUSEI
Orléans, Francia, Musée Collégiale Saint Pier...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Dancing Karoll
Located in London, GB
If you love history of art and looking for something that encloses its best tradition in one brushstroke, you have found it.
materpiece of virtousity and essentiality.A brushstr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
Man his cigarette and his girl
Located in London, GB
Original watercolour painting on paper
hand signed
a couple watching the artist in Soho.
London busy nights out. Cigarette, wine and talks. Glances, smiles and laugh.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Golden Period-Benton Irises, Artist Proof#1/3, hand paint, expression, UK Artist
Located in London, GB
- This is a hand painted finishing by artist in a Large sized (60 x 80 CM) Artist's Proof made on canvas, each proof is unique.
-Due to the hand-painted nature, details may vary, ea...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic
Mount Rushmore - Oil on canvas painting
By Blend Cota
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are forever immortalized on Mount Rushmore in S. Dakota, symbolizing the ideals of freedom and democracy and a promise to the future. Bl...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Brooke (Blue Waves)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition 3/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Brooke (Blue Waves)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition 3/3 by Larsen Sotelo
FRAMED
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
Full bleed dry mou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (The Scream) Poster
By Edvard Munch
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)
Title: "Musée des Arts Décoratifs (The Scream)"
Year: 1969
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Caroline (Darkness) Original photography Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
Caroline (Darkness) Original photography Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
FRAMED
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin fini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Alfons Alphons Müller (1898-1955) Fruit Still Life Oil Painting Switzerland 1942
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Alfons / Alphons Müller
(Swiss, * 24.8.1898 Mitlödi, † 8.6.1955 Biel)
Still Life with a Quince, an Apple and Grapes
• Oil on artist board, ca. 31 x 33 cm
• Frame, ca. 41 x 43 cm
• ...
Category
1940s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Lake Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
LAKE HOUSES
Size: 55 x 65 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A lively and scenic modernist landscape composition, executed in oil onto board.
The composition presents a picturesque view of houses by...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
FACE OF THE NIGHT(Octavio Paz) Hand Lithography Poster, 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
Self Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Dog and Pinga
Located in New York, NY
Wax pastel drawing on paper.
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Wax Crayon
After School
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
GRACIELA RODO BOULANGER (1935- ) Regarded as one of the most collected female artists in the world, Graciela Rodo Boulanger is recognized for her unique treatment of the continuous ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Offset
Fishing Village
By Heshi Yu
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
HESHI YU (1935- ) Yu's original style of painting is well known and widely sought for it's abstract beauty. His work successfully combines geometric and figurative images in the art...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Offset
Oda a la Alegria
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
GRACIELA RODO BOULANGER (1935- ) Regarded as one of the most collected female artists in the world, Graciela Rodo Boulanger is recognized for her unique treatment of the continuous ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Offset
FAMILY Signed Lithograph, Space Family Portrait, Latin American Woman Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
Raquel Forner (1902-1988) Argentine woman painter and printmaker born in Buenos Aires in 1902 and died in the same city in 1988, regarded as one of the best Argentine female painters...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dancers print
Located in London, GB
Original digital color print on paper
20x25cm
limited edition 2 of 27
hand signed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Color, Digital
Still Time 1 woman figurative portraiture expressionist female contemporary oil
Located in London, Chelsea
This contemporary painting by Iryna Yermolova captures a vibrant figurative study of a woman sitting. This pieces expressive nature gives it a fantastic sense of fluidity which is dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The One That Got Away. Smoking man in antique bathtub soft green tones humorous
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on wood painting. There is a rough stipple texture to this work achieved by mixing a pumice like compound into the primer. The work is consistent with the artists humo...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Two Yellow Parakeets and the Surviving Plant" Oil Painting by Pat Berger
Located in Pasadena, CA
There is something mesmerizing about the paintings of Pat Berger - a captivating force that immediately draws us in. Her work is characterized by a unique c...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Tropical bouquet Watercolor painting with Gold Interior Flowers Art Aquarelle
Located in Sempach, LU
A watercolor painting with a potala for modern interior.
A watercolor painting with bright tropical flowers and juicy monstera leaves, decorated with golden potala. Saturated, contr...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Face
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
"Swimmers" Vibrant Expressionist Figurative Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Pep Suari
14.75" x 40"
Acrylic on Board
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Portrait of a Gentleman, Large Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
BENJAMIN KOPMAN (1887 - 1965)
Painter, Illustrator and printmaker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903. It was a cen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bountiful, Original Painting
By Amanda Dagg
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Amanda Dagg presents a stunning pink blossom tree that epitomizes the essence of nature at its best. She depicts the tree in full bloom, with delicate bl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Photo Finish - Horses Racing, Horse Racing Art, Animal Art, Sports Painting
By Garth Bayley
Located in Deddington, GB
Photo Finish -Horses Racing an original painting by Garth Bayley. Pen and ink Capturing the moment the horses fly past the posts Affordable art.
Discover works by Garth Bayley online...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Boats in Color, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Robert Hofherr presents a view of workboats reinterpreted with expressionist color and minimal detail. Blocks of color combine with the selective use of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Down Exeter Street, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Robert Hofherr exhibits an expressionist view of the memorable Exeter Street in England. The simplified cityscape creates visual energy with doses of bol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
A Series of Strong Diagonals, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A harbor with sailboats receives the expressionist treatment with bold color and expressive paint handling in artist Robert Hofherr's work. The strong diagonal ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Lady with Cats, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru presents an expressionist portrait of a lady with her two cats. She communicates her love for them through gentle caresses as they sl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Sonoran Trio, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Sharon Sieben shares an expressionist rendering of cacti. The last rays of sun glimmer across the Sonoran Desert. Majestic dust covers the Saguaro's arms...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Cloaks 3: Expose
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Cloaks 3: Expose" is a poignant and powerful artwork that speaks to the issue of oppression, marginalization, and societal judgment. The painting features a figure draped in a cloak,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Europa: squatting figure original hand signed lithograph Expressionist Kokoschka
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful hand signed lithograph by the Master of Expressionism, who was deemed "the most degenerate of the degenerate" by the Nazi regime! I depicts a strange squatting figure and...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Summer Bales II, Contemporary Landscape Painting, Original Rural Artwork
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
Small scale impressionist style painting of 'Summer Bales' in the countryside by Rupert Aker Featuring his signature gestural brush strokes and impasto and textured paint layering.
R...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anatole Krasnyansky Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Anatole Krasnyansky: 1930-2023. Well listed Ukrainian American artist who just passed away a few months ago. He has had auction results higher than $7100. He was born in Kyiv and emi...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Stay With Me
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
'Stay with me' highlights the importance of company and friendships in our lives for days when we are not strong alone. While considering the positive role companionship takes in lon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Pencil, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Chess Game Texture Print By Renowned Italian Artist Francesco Beda
By Francesco Beda
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
RESTORED, numbered and RARE Vintage Textured Print After The Famous Painting "Chess Game" by Italian Artist FRANCESCO BEDA in a beautiful Large hand carved oak Wood Frame from 1970.
...
Category
16th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Handmade Paper
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Framed Street Scene - The Pathway, Watercolour
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PATHWAY
Size: 44 x 37 cm (including frame)
Watercolour on paper
A vibrant and striking mid-century street scene composition, executed in watercolour on paper.
The painting depi...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Interior Still Life - Tabletop Setting, Watercolour
Located in Bristol, GB
TABLETOP SETTING
Size: 51 x 43cm (including frame)
Watercolour and gouache on paper
A lively and expressive mid-century still life composition, executed in watercolour and gouache o...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Phantom of the Brotherhood
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Phantom of the Brotherhood" describes the hoax of the reality of man and his flowers. At the center of his burdens, accomplishments, and rest; mostly his brothers dare to acknowledg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil
Mammy
Located in London, GB
original watercolour on paper
hand signed
2023
21x21cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Paper, Tempera, Watercolor
Benton Irises, UK award artist, Original, ink on handmade paper, rare, sensual.
Located in London, GB
Rare chance to own Shizico's original artwork from this one-off auction offer, NO Reserve!
Original ink on handmade paper
30x 21 x 0.1 CM
-Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the origi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Der Racher (The Avenger)
Located in Chicago, IL
This powerful bronze is one of Ernst Barlach's most important works and an icon of German Expressionist sculpture. A rare opportunity to own a piece of history.
The work is signed ...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Circa 1968 flowers litho print by Bernard Buffet
Located in Pasadena, CA
A lithograph by French artist Bernard Buffet (1928 - 1999) . This lithograph is signed in the plate, and was published by the Collector's Guild, NY. Societe de verification de la nou...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch by Shaaban Zaki
signed & dated
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was disti...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed Figurative Painting - Seated Figures
Located in Bristol, GB
SEATED FIGURES
Size: 47 x 38 cm (including frame)
Watercolour and pastel on paper
An outstanding mid-century figurative composition, executed in pastel and watercolour on paper.
Pa...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
"White & Blue Flowers on Dark Green Background, " Acrylic signed by Reginald Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"White & Blue Flowers on Dark Green Background" is an original acrylic painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right corner. It depicts a bouq...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"As I Waste Time on Earth, " Oil Pastel Abstract Landscape by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"As I Waste Time on Earth" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed it on the back. This piece depictts two faces in the lower left, two f...
Category
1990s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board, Rag Paper
"Whew!, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whew!" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a man on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on a be...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Screenprint Serigraph Art Print WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Children Playing
Located in Surfside, FL
Frank Kleinholz (Brooklyn, 1901 - 1987)
1963
Children playing in park
Screenprint, serigraph
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His work was strongly influenced by Max Beckmann, is a late survival of the social commentary expressionism of the WPA era; His early lithograph works were intensely personal and reflected the influence of the Depression and the World Wars, but his palette lightened as he increasingly focused on families and the bonds between adults and children. He was contemporary of William Gropper and Ben Shahn. As the son of a blind father and hard-working mother who supported the family with a delicatessen. From early childhood, he had to earn a living and sold newspapers and ran errands for local businesses. He graduated from Fordham Law School, and at age 23 was admitted to the bar. In the mid-1930s, while practicing insurance as well as law, he began oil painting and printmaking with teachers including Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Sol Wilson. He gained quick recognition and between 1941 and 1980 participated in numerous exhibitions including the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Museum and the Worcester Art Institute. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kleinholz graduated Fordham Law School in 1923. In the 1930s, he began studying painting under Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Sol Wilson. He quickly rose to prominence with the inclusion of Abstract art in the Carnegie Institute exhibition of 1941. His painting Backstreet won a purchase prize by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chronology His strongest influences were American Social Realists Reginald Marsh and Philip Evergood, the German Expressionists George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz, the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jorge Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the early 20th century Paris Modernists.
Described by Newsweek as a "Brooklyn-born Gauguin," Kleinholz focused on urban life in New York, Brooklyn and Coney Island, as well as intimate, social realist scenes of parents and children, watercolor paintings of flowers and birds, and sunbathers. His political works include anti war paintings...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Duke
Located in London, GB
2022 hand signed watercolour
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Watercolor
phenix
Located in London, GB
2022 hand signed watercolour
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Watercolor
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