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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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Item Ships From: USA
Style: Expressionist
Raventos 11 Geometric Figures Golden Browns White
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos. geometric figures. browns . white. expressionist acrylic canvas painting. framed Raventos trained at the eli...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Divine Creation.1, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The painting beautifully captures a blue globe adorned with an array of plants and flowers. The enchanting hues of light magenta and dark green create organic a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

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 Art

Materials

Oil Pastel

Havana
Located in New York, NY
Jean Carzou traveled to Havana as an artist to explore the world and he captured a ship from a earlier era.
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Loading and Unloading, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting sets a moody tone, employing a mainly blue color scheme with expressive brushwork. The stylized ships evoke emotions rather than realistic portray...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Wharf, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting follows the Fauvist style of using vibrant colors, expressive brushstrokes, and simplified drawings to depict the subject. The foreground captures the interior of a ship leading toward a bridge on the horizon. The treatment of the elements adds to the artwork's expressionist charm and graphic quality.


About the Artist
Artist Robert Hofherr paints fauvist expressions, infusing his work with a strong statement reflected in his bold application of colors and spontaneous brushwork. Robert refrains from depicting a scene in its literal sense and lets the viewer reimagine a piece with their imagination. Following art school, Robert spent decades as an advertising and graphic design professional. "After my children had grown and became independent, I reconnected with painting," shares Robert. Inspired by the French artists Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, he now paints in an unused bedroom in his home, often accompanied by the soothing melodies of classical music. When he is not working...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Modernist Orchestra Musical Gouache Painting Boston Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Very vibrant, dynamic orchestra scene reminiscent of the work of Mopp (Max Oppenheim) David Aronson, (1923-2015) son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists. At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work. In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts. included in the catalog Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others. Selected Awards 1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design 1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design 1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design 1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum 1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design 1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design 1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts 1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design 1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia 1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship 1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award 1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival 1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival 1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival 1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art 1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art Selected Public Collections Art Institute of Chicago Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Bryn Mawr College Brandeis University Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida DeCordova Museum Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York Atlanta University Atlanta Art...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

The Gift
Located in Columbia, MO
ARTHUR KRAFT The Gift Watercolor and ink on paper 21 x 27.5 inches Framed: 25 x 31.75 inches
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

'Richard Milhouse Nixon', Carmel Art Association, Oakland Art Museum, Monterey
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'D. Crispo' for Dick Crispo (American, born 1945) and dated 1972. Dick Crispo has presented 76 one-man shows and won 36 awards for his artistry, including a gold...
Category

1970s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Celebration, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru depicts figures grooving to the pulsating beat of the music. Bright lights cast vibrant hues across the scene, adding an electrifying...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Amber Horizon" Mixed Media Expressionist Landscape by Helen Steele
Located in Carmel, CA
"Amber Horizon" by Helen Steele is a poignant 48" x 24" contemporary expressionist landscape that captures the viewer with its raw emotional intensity. The artwork employs a sophisti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Codorniu 34 Majorca expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original expressionist acrylic painting. frame Painter and draftsman born in Ciutat de Mallorca in 1943. In 1959 moved his address to Barcelona. He was a student of the School of Arts and Crafts of Palma and of Sant Jordi de Barcelona. From the mid-60's he attended painting contests in Pollença, Barcelona, ​​Palma, Tàrrega, Felanitx, Santanyí, etc., resulting in several prizes. At the same time, he exhibited in individual and group shows held in various Mallorcan towns, Barcelona ("Gioconda"), Terrassa ("Arxiu Tobella" and "Mobar"), Sitges , 1980), etc. Predominate in their work the themes of marine context, painted with pronounced contrasts of color and a luminous vibrancy and Mediterranean root. Palma de Mallorca, 1943. Painter and draftsman. He began his studies at the School of Arts and Crafts of Palma de Mallorca, training that continues at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona. He is a professor of drawing. His first solo exhibition took place at the San Jorge University College (Barcelona, ​​1969), although he had previously participated in groups such as the Minor Hall (Palma de Mallorca, 1965). Among his exhibitions we mention: Provincial Museum (Orense, 1971); Gallery Costa (Palma de Mallorca, 1973 and 1975); Balaguer couple (Palma de Mallorca, 1974); Municipal Hall of Art (Baracaldo, Bilbao, 1977); Tertre Gallery (Mataró, Barcelona, ​​1979); Agora Gallery...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Musical Flow, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this lively and spirited painting, five figures revel in the music and each other's company. Tones of blue and orange embrace their forms as they hit the dan...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Ischia
Located in New York, NY
We received 5 tapestries from a dealers collection who retired from business and been stored properly. There in no fading or damage to each and ready to hang condition. There is a s...
Category

1980s Expressionist Art

Materials

Tapestry

"Der Hirte" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color woodcut. Catalogue reference JH 771. Published in 1919 for Genius. Image size: 9 1/2 x 7 inches (240 x 178mm), on wove paper with full margins. This print is f...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Raventos 8 Abstract Piano and Sheet Music - original expressionist acrylic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Music Piano - original expressionist acrylic canvas painting. framed Original work by RAVENTOS. Musical abstract composition. Perfect state .RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’A...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child)" from the suite "Cirque (Circus) by Andre Suarez" created in 1930, is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed in the plate as issue. According to Isabelle Rouault (Daughter of the artist) the total edition was 500. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Rauch #153, Kornfeld, Klipstein Catalog 120, #134 to #144, Soby pages 110 and 120, and Ambroise Vollard Editeur by Una E. Johnson #202 and page #109. . The plate mark (image) is 12.15 x 8.25 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with fabric matting, fabric spacer, and gold color bevel. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York About the artist: French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Aquatint

HEAD OF A MAN : etching
Located in New York, NY
Ronald Katz was born in South Africa in 1939 to parents who emigrated from Germany. His first ten years were spent there. Arriving in the United States of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Raventos 7 Winds Vines Trees Square Sunset original expressionist acrylic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"Paisaje de castilla" original expressionist acrylic painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Julien Meunie 19 Almond original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
" ALMOND original acrylic painting. framed Julien was born in 1948 in Vichy, France. He studied art and theater in Clermont-Ferrand at the same time as finishing his degree in Fren...
Category

Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Pink Crush, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A pink spring-flowering bulb defies its seasonal nature and blooms in the fall. Its leaves brushed with gold paint, emerge from a green vase made from stamped papers. The bold colors and varying textures, made with glued leaves, some stamping, and carved marks, add dynamic energy to the composition.


About the Artist
In 1999, Jodi Dann seized the opportunity to become a full-time painter. Today, her paintings read like hazy memories of imagined faraway places. The compositions are abstract, but possess strong architectural elements, recalling bridges, arches, and doorways. Each piece retains an overall sense of place without prescribing a location, allowing the viewer to form an individualized connection with the work. Jodi paints from her cozy studio on her property in Oregon while listening to a variety of music on Pandora. She doesn’t feel the need to strive for perfection in her work. “Life isn’t perfect,” says Jodi. “Why force a painting to be?”


Words that describe this painting: floral, collage, paper, papers, stamps...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

From a Different Perspective, 8ft high Bronze
Located in Loveland, CO
From a Different Perspective by Jane DeDecker Abstract Expressionistic Figurative Bronze 8ft x 3ft x 3ft" cast museum quality silica bronze ed/17 Placed publicly in Downey, CA by the...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Bronze

Seeing Autumn, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A lone tree stands in the middle of a vast meadow, with a single cloud hovering over it. Its leaves, painted in shades of yellow and red, subtly hint at the cha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Bouquet of Flowers
By Louis Marchand de Raux
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Bouquet of Flowers Louis Marchand des Raux was born 1902-2000 in Touraine in the tiny village of Tourettes in France, where he grew up in such pov...
Category

1940s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Woman in Period Outfit
Located in Pasadena, CA
The identity of the artist who created this excellent charcoal study remains unknown. The model's outfit and the arrangement of her hair suggest a bygone era, possibly a study for a ...
Category

Early 19th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal

Solitude, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A woman holds her dress as she walks on the beach. The bright golden light outlines her body, setting her apart from the abstract purple horizon in the background. With broad brushstrokes, artist Connie Millholland...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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 Art

Materials

Watercolor

Autumn Foliage, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The painting portrays a tree with colorful foliage in the middle of a vast field. The leaves are painted yellow and red, with a hint of purple. The wind gently ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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 Art

Materials

Oil Pastel

Dancing with Friends, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting shows a happy moment between friends dancing with each other. They close their eyes and lift their hands, fully immersing themselves in the experi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Blooming Red, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"I confess that I almost always choose red when painting flowers," says artist Sharon Sieben. She presents vibrant blossoms within an earth-tone vase, creating ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Polish French Expressionist Judaica Woodcut Had Gadya from Passover Haggadah
Located in Surfside, FL
Arthur Kolnik, Jewish painter and printmaker Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) 1890 - Paris (France) 1972 Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislavov, a small town in Galicia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, who was originally from Lithuania, worked as an accountant and his mother, who was originally from Vienna, ran a shop. In 1905, he discovered Yiddish literature in Czernowitz, on the occasion of the first conference on Yiddish language, which was organized by several writers including I. L. Peretz, Cholem Aleichem, Shalom Asch, and Nomberg. In 1909, Kolnik joined the School of Fine Arts in Krakow and took classes taught by Jacek Malezcewski and Joseph Mehoffer, a portrait painter and an artist who produced stained-glass windows in Fribourg (Switzerland). He was mobilized in the Austrian army in 1914. He was wounded in 1916 and repatriated to Vienna, where he met the Judaic painter Isidor Kaufmann. In 1919, Kolnik settled in Czernowitz, which was then annexed by Romania. There, he met writer and poet Itzik Manger and storyteller Eliezer Steinberg for whom he produced several illustrations. In 1920, Kolnik left for the United States, bringing fifty paintings...
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20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Prize Winner, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is a piece of art from Scott Dykema's horse series. In the artwork, the horse is depicted as a unique and significant animal. The image is full of striking...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Vibes, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru captures the essence of movement in her composition, where two figures dance, swaying to the rhythm. Bright beams from the strobe lig...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Modernist Encaustic Painting Portrait Boston Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Bears old label verso from Raydon Gallery in New York city. Aronson, David 1923- David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of ...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Encaustic

A Magisterial Acrylic Landscape Painting, "Golden Prairie 2"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 12x12 Magisterial Acrylic Landscape Painting executed by artist Joe A. Oakes. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery. Born in ...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Dors Mon Amour
Located in Irvine, CA
This is an aquatint print by French painter Georges Rouault titled "Dors mon amour" ("Sleep, My Love") (plate facing page 164) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circ...
Category

1930s Expressionist Art

Materials

Aquatint

Ecce Homo VII
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ecce Homo VII Woodcut, 1921 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist One of only three known impressions Created while the artist was studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germ...
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1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Ask for a Wish
Located in Ridgewood, NY
Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes ...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

French Jewish Post Holocaust Abstract Painting Manner of Hundertwasser Art Brut
By Jichak Pressburger
Located in Surfside, FL
Jichak Pressburger, Painter. b. 1933, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. A concentration camp survivior. Came to Israel aboard the ship, "The Exodus". 1964 Went to Paris. In 1979 Returned as new immigrant. Education Tel Aviv University, B.A. in art, with Marcel Janco and Isidor Ascheim at Avni art school. Beaux Arts, Paris with Professor Coutaud. Itzchak Pressburger Stays in Paris from 1963 – 1979, Resident of the “Cité des Arts” 1969-1972. Lives and works in Jerusalem since 1979. One-Man Exhibitions 1963 Gallery Dugit, Tel-Aviv 1968 Cultural Center Enkhuizen, Netherlands 1968 Gallery Zunini, Paris (chosen by the art critic of « Opus : Jean-Jacques Lévèque) 1970 Gallery Zunini, Paris 1973 Gallery Maitre Albert, Paris. Cultural Center Verfeil sur Seye, France 1974 Gallery Maitre Albert, Paris 1976 Gallery Mundo, Barcelone 1980 Artists’ House, Jerusalem 1981 Gallery Alain Gerard, Paris Group Exhibitions 1966 Rathaus Charlottenburg, Berlin. (The first show of Israeli painters in Germany Artists Center of Silvarouvres, Nantes, Ffance XXXth Salon of Finances at “l’Hotel des Monnaies”, Paris 1969 Maison de Culture, Le Havre, France 1968 Gallery Zunini, Paris (chosen by the art critic of « Opus : Jean-Jacques Lévèque) Salon « Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui », Paris Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes, France Cultural Center Vitry, France Gallery Il Giorno, Milan Cité des Arts, Paris 1972 Salon “Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui”, Paris Salon de Mai, Paris 1973 Städtische Galerie, Siegen, Germany 1974 Jewish Cultural Center, Paris Publicis, Paris 1975 Réalitiés Nouvelles, Paris 1976 Salon de Mai, Paris 1977 “Perspectives Israeliennes”, Grand Palais, Paris 1981 Salon Alain Gerard, Paris 1984 Artists’ House, Jerusalem Publication 1990 Haggadah Yom Kippour (Hebrew/French) Abraham Bliah (private edition), Paris Acquisitions 1968 The City of Paris 1972 The State of France The Yitzchak Pressburger artist was born in Bratislava – known for centuries by its German name of Pressburg – but the outbreak of World War II found him and his family in Prague. His father realized they had to escape from the Nazi occupiers and tried to get the family across the border into Hungary. However, they were caught near the crossing point, arrested and incarcerated overnight at the nearby railway station. The Czechs put them on a train to Hungary early the next morning. That was their first miracle in their quest for survival. They survived with relative ease until late 1943, when the father was taken away to a forced labor camp. He subsequently died in a death march. Things became even more precarious in early 1944, when the Holocaust made its full-blown presence felt in Hungary. “It wasn’t the Germans, it was the Hungarian Nazis who did the dirty work,” Pressburger points out. The family lived in so-called “safe houses” that were protected by Switzerland, Finland and Sweden. The havens were dismantled in late 1944, and the Pressburgers moved into one of the two Jewish ghettos in Budapest. The Nazis had found two houses with Jews, including the one where we had been, and took them all out and shot them next to the Danube. Today there is a monument by the river [called Shoes on the Danube Bank]. We should have been with the Jews who were killed by the river,” he says. After the war, Pressburger and his siblings were farmed out to various orphanages run by the Jewish Agency, and things took a decidedly better turn. “We finally had food to eat,” he recalls. “After a while we were put on trains that were protected by the Jewish Brigade [of the British Army], and we were sent to Austria, and then to Germany.” “My uncle was a famous artist, and I learned a lot from him,” he says. While in Germany, Pressburger also took some lessons with a local artist. His mother managed to get him and two of his siblings berths on the Exodus, which set sail from Marseilles for Palestine in July 1947. Pressburger was 13 at the time and clearly recalls the aborted attempt to get to the Promised Land. “It was so crowded on the boat. This was a ship that was made to ply rivers in the United States, with a few hundred people on board, and we had over 4,500 passengers crammed in.” As we know, the British prevented the Exodus from docking in Palestine, and the passengers were shipped – in three far more seaworthy vessels – back to France. After the French government refused to cooperate with the British, Pressburger and the others found themselves back in Germany. The teenager eventually made it here in 1948, just one month before the Declaration of Independence. After a short furlough in Tel Aviv, during the first lull in the fighting in the War of Independence, he moved to Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, where he worked in the cowshed. All the while he continued feverishly drawing and honing his artistic skills, which he says came in handy when he joined the IDF. After completing his military service, which included a spell as one of the founding members of the Flotilla 13 naval commando unit, he worked in Sdom for a while at the Dead Sea Works before starting his formal arts training in earnest. I was in the first group of students at the Avni Institute [in Tel Aviv],” he says. “There was quite a famous bunch of students and teachers like Moshe Mokadi and Isidore Ascheim and Aaron Giladi.” In such illustrious company, one might have thought Pressburger was set to unleash his burgeoning talents on art connoisseurs across the globe, but it was a while before that happened. Pressburger arrived in the French capital in 1964 and spent close to 15 years there, with a short interlude in Germany, before returning to Israel. His time in Paris was a professionally rewarding period of his life, and he also found love. “[Avni Institute teacher] Yochanan Simon gave me the name and address of a French-Israeli family in Paris, but when I got to the house, a young woman opened the door and told me the family was on vacation in Israel,” he explains. Despite missing his expected hosts’ welcome, he and the German-born young lady who greeted him soon fell for each other, and romance quickly led to wedding bells. By all accounts, Pressburger did well in Europe. He secured a rare three-year berth at Cité Internationale des Arts, where artists are normally provided with accommodation and studio space for between two months and a year. He was also accepted to the prestigious Beaux Arts academy of fine arts, mounted solo exhibitions, and took part in group shows all over Europe. One of these last was a group exhibition at Rathaus Charlottenburg in Berlin in 1966 – the first exhibition of Israeli artists in Germany after the Holocaust. When he arrived in Berlin, the lineup for the Israeli show was already signed and sealed, but somehow his work came to the attention of the German culture minister, who arranged for him to join. The Pressburgers’ year-long sojourn came to an abrupt end following an encounter he had one day while walking through the crowded Berlin streets...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

LLuis Ribas Little Mediterranean Coast original landscape painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Mediterranean coast- original landscape acrylic painting Ribas (El Masnou, Barcelona, 1949) is a Spanish painter whose large and hyper-realistic paintings reflect, above all, the be...
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

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 Art

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 ...
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1990s Expressionist Art

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Oil Pastel

Fruits Accrochés le Long de notre Vie (Fruits Hanging along our Life) /// Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Théo Tobiasse (Israeli-French, 1927-2012) Title: "Fruits Accrochés le Long de notre Vie (Fruits Hanging along our Life)" *Signed by Tobiasse in pencil lower right Circa: 1984...
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1980s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Color Riot, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
With a bold palette and expressive brushstrokes, artist Robert Hofherr paints a teapot adorned with flowers on an iron chair. "The use of an abstract and colorf...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Chess Game Texture Print By Renowned Italian Artist Francesco Beda
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL APRIL 15TH ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year-Take Advantage Of It* RESTORED, numbered and RARE Vintage Textured Print Aft...
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16th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Romanian Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Figures Mothers and Babies
By Risa Propst Kraid
Located in Surfside, FL
Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together. Painting and Sculpture We...
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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Expressionistic landscape oil painting 'Red Stand'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Red Stand' 2011 by American artist, Ken Elliott. Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in. This painting of a forest incorporates a palette of rich colors in ...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

New Born
Located in Ridgewood, NY
Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes ...
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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Acrylic

STADTISCHES OBDACH (Urban Shelter)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (German 1867 -1945) STADTISCHES OBDACH (Urban Shelter) 1926 (Knesebeck 226, Klipstein 219.bB), Lithograph from the unsigned edition for the annual edition of the Kuns...
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1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Balaguer Car Races Jacky Ickx Le Mans 1969 Ford GT40 original painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 ) During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle. Self-taught in the art world, Balaguer d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Purim Holiday Scene Judaica Aquatint Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Vibrant 'Lyrical Expressionist' Portrait Painting on Canvas by Steve Balkin
Located in Hudson, NY
Steve Balkin (1938-2023) This painting was purchased from Balkin's estate. It came from his home in upstate NY. It is titled "She's Always on my Mind", da...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print lithography portrait
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Lopez Garcia (Spain, 1936) 'Mujer de Tomelloso', 1961 lithograph on paper 11.9 x 13.8 in. (30 x 35 cm.) Edition of 170 Unframed ID: LOP2001-008 Ha...
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1960s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Watchful Eyes, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Kip Decker presents a vibrant portrait of five Native Americans on horseback. They collectively look out and watch for the unforeseen, surrounded by colo...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Autumns End" Oil on Canvas Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape
Located in Carmel, CA
"Autumns End" is a compelling 20" x 28" oil on canvas by Masri that beautifully marries abstract art with the subtle intimations of a landscape at the cusp of fall. The canvas is a t...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Lithograph Israeli Modernist Judaica, Kibbutz Boy, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
A signed and numbered lithograph print. Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935. in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jerusalem. In 1955 he returned to Haifa, where h...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

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...
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1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Expressionist art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, George Grosz, Stephen Basso, and Marc Chagall. 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 art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.

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