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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
Color:  Black
Macaques 4.35.
Located in Surfside, FL
Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963 Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. In Paris, he became a member of the Salon in 1911 and in 1913 he became a member of its jury. He also became a member of the Salon d'Automne. While in Europe he received a medal at Clichy as well as the Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition in Rome and Turin, Italy in 1911. In 1916, Abramovitz emigrated to America settling...
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20th Century Expressionist Art

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Woodcut

Buffaloes original 1968 limited ed. aquatint etching by Julian Trevelyan
Located in Paonia, CO
Buffaloes is a signed limited edition ( 13/75 ) aquatint etching by British artist and poet Julian Trevelyan. Several buffaloes and workers are in a field with mountains a...
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1960s Expressionist Art

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Etching

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic

Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - The Three Musketeers
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/...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Expressionist Judaica Rabbis Oil Painting Jewish American WPA Modernist Ben Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
Rabbinical Discussion Hand signed lower left. Provenance: bears label verso for Summit Gallery Dimensions: H 14.25" x W 8" Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.” By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist. Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition. Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Rabbi, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

Nothing to be done
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core) Frame size 54.1 x 42 x 2.5 cm This work includes a certificate of authenticity ...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Charcoal

Glitzy
Located in Westport, CT
René Romero Schuler’s expressionistic paintings depict delicate female figures that she paints using a dry-brushed, minimalist hand, leaving her subjects mostly featureless but nonet...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Félix Vallotton ( Swiss 1865 - 1925) L’Exécution Woodcut 18/25 , Switzerland
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865 - 1925) L’Exécution • Wood cut print • Loose Japan paper sheet, 25 x 37 cm • Block, ca. 15 x 25 cm • Monogrammed in the ...
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1890s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Contemporary Textured Figurative Painting - Water Series No.4
Located in Beijing, CN
textured Figurative painting- Water Series No.4 by He Wenjue Dimension : 30 x 20cm Material :oil on canvas Date: 2009 About Water Series He Wenjue grew...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Rabbi, Framed Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
A touching portrait of an aging Rabbi by an unknown artist, probably of Hungarian origin. The oil painting on canvas is mounted to board and probably dates to the early 20th Century....
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Art

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Oil

After Icarus, ghostly floating figure, black w orange, blue nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic and Oil Paint on Canvas, Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint and enamel on canvas.
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

"Evening Wash" oil on board by Shana Wilson - Female Nudes
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine. Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Board, Oil

"Parade"- Colorful vertical indoor painting. Expressionist female nude with cat.
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Ginger Portal" - Vertical expressionist female nude in dark & light colors.
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Canvas

Hanging Woman, colorful, yoga reference, figure w abstract patterns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Deer on Dark Red
Located in Denver, CO
Lisa Bostwick has had pieces exhibited at the Legion of Honor, Napa Valley Museum, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and the de Young Museum. Her North Am...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Separateness Of Things, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on Canvas, hand framed and finished by the artist. overall size 15” x 19”. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Oil

Stephanie Serpick_Void of Modern Life 6_Oil On Panel_16 x 20 in_Expressionism
Located in Darien, CT
The artworks in the series It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn are an expression of feeling in dealing with personal issues and political events. These feelings stem from both reacti...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Muir Woods, California original 24x48 expressionist landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
The mighty and grand redwood trees grace California's famed Muir Woods. Walking along the forest paths to view these majestic "fair weather friends" puts h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Oil

Attributed To Benjamin Kopman "The Rabbi"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Benjamin Kopman: 1887-1965. Well listed artist born in Russia, but came to U.S. in 1903. He studied at the National Academy of Design in NYC. He has had auction results over $5000 bu...
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1960s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Willow
Located in Winterswijk, NL
"Weide" is a piece of art originally manufactured for an adventure in a fantasy role-playing game. The mystic tree in the swamp bears an entrance into a tunnel which leads through un...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Other Medium

"Yellow Landscape" - Vertical expressionist landscape in yellow & black colors.
Located in Miami, FL
Magical expressionist landscape in yellow & black colors.
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

"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 Not framed. Ships in a tube Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin fini...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Stephanie Serpick_A New Fall 39_2020_Oil On Panel_16 x 20 in_Expressionism
Located in Darien, CT
The artworks in the series It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn are an expression of feeling in dealing with personal issues and political events. These feelings stem from both reacti...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Rooftops, Surrealist Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Rooftops Year: 1973 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 30 in. x 30 in. (76.2 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 37.5 x 37.5 inches
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1970s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Weib Vom Manne Begehrt (Woman Desired by Man) /// Max Pechstein Woodcut Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hermann Max Pechstein (German, 1881-1955) Title: "Weib Vom Manne Begehrt (Woman Desired by Man)" Portfolio: Deutsche Grapiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time) *Unsigned edition Year: 1919, (published 1920) Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on cream wove paper Limited edition: 500, (there was also a signed and numbered edition of 30) Printer: Unknown Publisher: Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, Germany Reference: "Das Graphische Werk Max Pechsteins" - Krüger No. 224; Fechter No. 157; Rifkind No. 2252; Söhn I, page 108-114 Sheet size: 12.75" x 9.5" Image size: 9.88" x 6.25" Condition: One small skillfully repaired tear lower left in margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Kiel, Germany. Comes from the 1920 "Deutsche Grapiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)" portfolio of fifteen lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight reproductions, and one lithographed cover by various artists. The artists who contributed to this portfolio were George Grosz, Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Richard Seewald, Heinrich Campendonk, Erich Heckel, Otto Mueller, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmüller, Max Unold, Karl Caspar, Max Lieberman, René Beeh, Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer, Ludwig Meidner, Max Beckmann, Richard Seewald, Käthe Kollwitz, August Gaul, Rudolf Grossman, Alfred Kubin, and Paul Klee. This very same work is within many permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. "Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)" brings together woodcuts, lithographs, and reproductions by thirty-one artists representing a cross-section of styles from Impressionism to Expressionism, uniting under a single cover works ranging from naturalistic self-portraits to left-wing political caricatures. It features works by artists associated with the Berlin Secession (an exhibiting society comprised primarily of German Impressionists), with Expressionist groups like the Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, and with the political Novembergruppe, as well as artists like Max Beckmann who were not affliliated with any group. In his introduction, art historian Kurt Pfister identified Expressionism as the leading force in German art at the time, while stressing the plurality of approaches to style and subject matter that the movement encompassed. Pfister emphasized the openness of German artists to foreign sources, and cited the importance of Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso as well as Japanese, Indian, African, and Gothic art for the development of German art. There was a fifty-year difference in age between the oldest artist, Max Liebermann, and the youngest, Conrad Felixmüller, featured in the collection. The volume also included Lyonel Feininger, an American who had lived in Germany since 1896, as well as Austrian artists Oskar Kokoschka and Alfred Kubin. Biography: Pechstein was born in Zwickau, the son of a craftsman who worked in a textile mill. Early contact with the art of Vincent van Gogh stimulated Pechstein's development toward expressionism. After studying art first at the School of Applied Arts and then at the Royal Art Academy in Dresden, Pechstein met Erich Heckel and joined the art group Die Bru¨cke in 1906. He was the only member to have formal art training. Later in Berlin, he helped to found the Neue Sezession and gained recognition for his decorative and colorful paintings that were lent from the ideas of Van Gogh, Matisse, and the Fauves. His paintings eventually became more primitivist, incorporating thick black lines and angular figures. From in 1933, Pechstein was vilified by the Nazis because of his art. A total of 326 of his paintings were removed from German museums. Sixteen of his works were displayed in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art...
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1920s Expressionist Art

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Engraving, Woodcut

Singer, from the Wild Woman Series, bright green tones music theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bright green tones, figurative, reminiscent of art nouveau This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

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 ...
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1990s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Theater' — 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A German Expressionist woodcut, with original hand-coloring in watercolor, depicting a parent and child watching a theatrical production; ...
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1920s Expressionist Art

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Woodcut

Stephanie Serpick_Void of Modern Life 8_Oil On Panel_16 x 20 in_Expressionism
Located in Darien, CT
The artworks in the series It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn are an expression of feeling in dealing with personal issues and political events. These feelings stem from both reacti...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Large Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Rediscovered New York City Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
King and queen with clowns and jesters. Bold, colorful, expressionist masterful painting. Jonah Kinigstein (b. 1923) is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter. He works in a figurative expressionist style. His works are featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He lives in New York City. Jonah Kinigstein was trained at Cooper Union Art School, The Grande Chaumiere in Paris; and Belle Arte in Rome. He has been a Fulbright Fellow. He has holdings at MOMA, the Ain Herod Museum in Tel Aviv; Smithsonian; the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Nelson Gallery of Art. He lived and worked in Brooklyn New York. Kinigstein was inducted as an Academician into the National Academy of Design in 1997. Exhibits include: Young Americans at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Academy of Arts and Letters; ACA Gallery; Rittenhouse Gallery; the Washington Irving Gallery; and the Pindar Gallery. Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (CAPS) '59, University of Illinois, Arthur Okamura, Fred Farr, Jonah Kinigstein, Lawrence Calcagno, Reuben Tam and Rico Lebrun. Jonatha Kinigstein attended The Cooper Union and Grand Chaumiere, Paris. He received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome, and has also received awards from the Butler Art Institute; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Silvermine Guild; and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Kinigstein has had solo shows at Galerie Bretau, Paris; Alan Gallery, Grippi Gallery, ACA Gallery, and Pindar Gallery, New York; Siembab Gallery, Boston; Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia; among others. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art; Allentown Art Museum; Albright Art Gallery; Butler Art Institute; and more. He has taught at the Brooklyn Museum and National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts. Born in 1923 in Coney Island, Jonah’s early influences were discovered during visits to the Metropolitan Museum- “When I really saw the old masters, it blew my mind, of course.” He attended Cooper Union for a year before he was drafted into the Army, serving from 1942 – 1945. Soon after, Jonah moved to Paris where he spent time at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, conversing with other aspiring artists, exchanging ideas, exhibiting his work, seeing established artists, and generally soaking up a fertile creative environment. He exhibited in several shows including the Salon D’Automne, Salon de Mai, and the Salon des Moins de Trente Ans, and had one-man shows in the Galerie Breteau and Les Impressions D’Art. After Paris, Jonah moved to Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at the La Schola Di Belles Artes. After a year, he returned to the U.S. and exhibited his paintings at the Downtown Gallery in Manhattan. A classically trained painter whose ambitions were frustrated by the New York art world’s obsession with Abstract Expressionism and the lucrative industry that grew up around it. Like so many painters, he was unable to make a living solely from painting, so he worked in the commercial art world and did freelance illustration and design. Throughout this time, Jonah’s commitment to his own art never wavered, and he continued to paint and occasionally exhibit. He was included in the MoMA show, Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism along with Alexander Archipenko, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Eugene Berman, Reg Butler, Lovis Corinth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud, George Grosz, Alexei Jawlensky...
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20th Century Expressionist Art

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Oil, Board

Fliegen züchten
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Charcoal

Girl in White
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Daniel Brennan Title: Girl in White Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 46 1/2 x 32 in. COA provided In the late 1960's, Danie...
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1960s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Parrots, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Jorge Calero is a Portuguese-Colombian artist whose main goal is to rise compassion towards nature by enhancing our visual experience by interiorizing the experience of seeing more ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

Stephanie Serpick_Void of Modern Life 2_Oil On Panel_9 x 12 in_Expressionism
Located in Darien, CT
The artworks in the series It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn are an expression of feeling in dealing with personal issues and political events. These feelings stem from both reacti...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Lusitano #1, monochromatic horse black and white, dramatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on fine printmaking paper made with oil based etching inks and oil paint. One of a recent series of horse images reflecting my interest in the mo...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Zirkusdirektor und Bajazzos
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core) Frame size 54.1 x 42 2.5 cm This work includes a certificate of authenticity
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Charcoal

magnificent, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
As the title shows, this composition, dealing with the four elements air, water, earth, and fire; represented in a living burning red parrot, is an attempt to capture the intense emo...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

20th century painting of monks in Venice, Italian pink figural work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (Italian-American, 1905–1981) Island of the Monks, c. 1930 Oil on masonite Signed lower right 14 x 24 inches 23 x 33 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only...
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1930s Expressionist Art

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Oil

THE DEVIL INSIDE, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The devil inside looking out. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes ...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Les Vacances 1958 Family at the Beach - Large Expressionist Oil Painting canvas
By Paul Maas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Collection of the Artist Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, Connecticut Collection of the Washington Art Association, Inc. Private Collection, California...
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1950s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

La Fiancée de Notre Dame by Theo Tobiasse
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE La Fiancée de Notre Dame by Theo Tobiasse (1927-2012) Oil on canvas 81 x 65 ...
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1960s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Blue Vase
Located in Lawrence, NY
Estate of artist. Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological ele...
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1930s Expressionist Art

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Adhesive, Oil

'Babel III' Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Rye, NY
Alberto Letamendi, is an artist from Ordizia (Basque Country) born in 1964. In his work, whether in painting or sculpture, he uses various techniques with a preference for natural ma...
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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Iron

'Italia, ' by James Cobb, Oil on Linen Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This oil on linen painting by James Cobb depicts an Italian street scene. The sidewalk is shaded in a purple cast from the afternoon sun with several person...
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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Forest Calm by Amanda Horvath, Landscape, Trees, Botanical, Expressionist
Located in Deddington, GB
Forest Calm [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylics on canvas Image size: H:76 cm x W:76 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:76 cm x D:3.5cm Sold Unfra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Autumn gold . 1981. Oil on cardboard, 84x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn gold. 1981. Cardboard, oil, 84x100 cm Colorful bright landscape Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. ...
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1980s Expressionist Art

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Cardboard, Oil

Blonde's Gift (Poison Blonde) by Josef Fenneker, Expressionist silent film
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph of Josef Fenneker’s Expressionist poster design for the 1919 silent film Blonde’s Gift (“Poison Blonde”, referring to peroxide-dyed, platinum bl...
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1920s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Landscape', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1928). The artist, Kvapil, has scores of tremendous artworks which depict scenes in nature such as this one. Here, a bit of Mediterrane...
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1920s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Carps in a Pond" Expressionist Painting
Located in Austin, TX
"Carps" Artist: Bartolome Sastre Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 35" x 45.75
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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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...
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1990s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Cardboard

Hold On, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on canvas on wooden stretcher, box canvas, signed on the front. Certificate of authenticity included. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

The Game
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 30" x 22". There is a lot of texture on this painting built up entirely of scraped and dried oil paint. This image is a dark one, showing a wo...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso Hand signed Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75 The actual paper is 3 X 3.5 Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.” By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist. Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition. Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Ink

Nocturnal Encounter, ca. 1920's
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Nocturnal Encounter, ca. 1920's Technique: Original Charcoal Drawing on paper size: 25 x 35 cm / 9.8 x 13.8 in Additio...
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1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal

"Purple Flowers" oil on canvas by Duan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer. Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese Dramatic Literature Society...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Soulmate 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Soulmate is an artwork which was created by the artist during his tough experiences, it explains inner satisfaction and self-belief, The kind of personal love for self in any situat...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

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