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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
Chagall, Ruth at the feet of Boaz (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Meeting of Ruth & Boaz (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raventos Vertical Small City original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
City original expressionist acrylic painting. RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelo...
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Chagall, Isaiah (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

R. Poch Big Industrial Labyrinth original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
9.-Industrial labyrinth 120 x 100 cm acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production compa...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Chagall, Solomon (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bouquet of Blush
Located in West Hollywood, CA
39" X 32" Wood Framed A beautiful arrangement of roses takes center stage in this painting. The flowers, meticulously placed in a vase, seem to have a mind of their own, as they gra...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chagall, Sarah and the Angels (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Banished from Paradise (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Judaica Bronze Sculpture "Rabbi" Figure Jewish American Boston Figural Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Aronson, David 1923- David Aronson, 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 a...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Bronze

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, The daughter-in-law of Judah (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, David and Absalom (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Daniel (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raventos Dark Blue original expressionist acrylic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Horitzo al mediterrani. original expressionist acrylic painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine...
Category

1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Whisper of Petals
Located in West Hollywood, CA
30" X 38" Wood Framed In this painting a rose bouquet takes center stage, delicately exploding out of the canvas in a soft and ethereal manner. The artist has skillfully captured th...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor. Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - ) As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

Chagall, Moses II (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Naomi and her daughters-in-law (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Ahaseurus (Mourlot 251; Cramer 42), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raventos Blue Navy Sunrise original abstract mixed media
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original abstract painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Raventós expande...
Category

Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard

Antoni COSTA Man original Figurative Academician drawing painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
man. original figurative academician drawing painting. framed Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD. H...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Zohar Kabbalah Portrait French Jewish Surrealist Aquatint Etching Hebrew Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Etching and Aquatint with embossing, Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian region. 1948 Arrived in Israel via Cyprus, wher...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Chagall, Rachel (Mourlot 242; Cramer 42), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Rahab and the spices of Jericho (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Owl Canyon Rocks, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This dynamic little painting was done on site- my friend and I loved going out to explore the landscape of Northern Colorado. The spontenaity of needin...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

September, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
September flourishes at its peak, with trees painted in vibrant autumn hues. A field of grass wraps around the foreground, with a small patch illuminated by sun...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Ruth gleaning (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Passionate Resurgence
Located in West Hollywood, CA
With its dynamic interplay of realistic and abstract elements, this painting invites viewers to explore the boundaries between perception and imagination. It evokes a sense of wonder...
Category

1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Glazed Ceramic Sculpture Plaque WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Couple of Lovers
Located in Surfside, FL
Frank Kleinholz (Brooklyn, 1901 - 1987) Lovers Ceramic unique glazed miniature sculptural plaque with gold leaf or foil under the glaze. Initialled recto and hand signed verso with a self portrait drawing. Framed measures 8.75 X 8.75 inches, Plaque is 6 X 6 inches. c.1950's-1960's 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

Ceramic, Paint, Glaze

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist art...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Jesus Red Blue Table original expressionist acrylic paper painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
MARC JESUS ​​VIVES - Ibiza 1966 Since 1984, he lives and works in Ciudadela de Menorca. (Balearic Islands) Between 1985 and 1988 he studied design in Ciudadela and the Mahon Costume...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

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...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Raventos BLUE Big original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
La Santa Espina. original expressionist acrylic painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts i...
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

New Dawn, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a colorful sunflower field meant to bring joy and hope of a new day. Sunflowers are known for their cleansing energy and beauty. The sun will always rise even in the darkest...
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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"9 Koi 23" - Bright Abstract Fish Underwater - red/orange/yellow/blue/green
Located in Wellesley, MA
"9 Koi 23" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades o...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bronze Sculpture Charles Dickens Figure American Boston Figural Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
I have seen this piece identified as Wizard and as Micawber from Charles Dickens David Copperfield ("something will turn up") Aronson, David 1923- David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Bronze

New York City Street Scene (L.18), Fairfield Porter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) Title: Street Scene (L.18) Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 69/100, plus proofs Size: 22.25 x 30 inches Condition: Excellen...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a feast style celebration scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor. Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - ) As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

"Seven Koi 16" - Bright Abstract Fish Underwater - red/orange/yellow/blue/green
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Seven Koi 16" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shad...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor. Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - ) As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

Raventos 22 Marine Big Blue original expressionist mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
" Marina" original expressionist mixed media painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Portraits Erotic Vignettes French Israeli Surrealist Aquatint Etching Le Colonel
Located in Surfside, FL
Etching and Aquatint with embossing featuring a clock, the colonel, a nude woman undressing and a figure. This is numbered by hand in pencil and signed in pencil. Zwy Milshtein (Zvi ...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor. Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - ) As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

Autumn
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil and ink on heavy cardboard; from the Samuel Esses Collection This is a very early and somewhat uncharacteristic work for the artist with its clear debt to Expressionism. Never ...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Ink

The Commandment 1
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The sculptural artwork is a portrayal of a religious scene, featuring Moses holding the iconic Ten Commandments, infusing the piece with a sense of depth and symbolism. The rich tex...
Category

1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Eternal Spring
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The combination of color and impressionistic brushwork and the harmony between the various elements in the painting creates a mesmerizing dance of nature, where every element is thou...
Category

1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Rolling Meadows
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The use of soft tones and impressionistic brushstrokes lends a sense of ethereal beauty to the overall composition. The artist has skillfully created a sense of distance, with the ba...
Category

1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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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