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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
Setting Sun, Original Painting
Setting Sun, Original Painting

Setting Sun, Original Painting

By Diana Elena Chelaru

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In awe of the images from the James Webb Telescope, artist Diana Elena Chelaru creates a series inspired by the depths of the universe. The mystery and vibran...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

signed original etching - Artist's Proof

signed original etching - Artist's Proof

By Jack Levine

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original soft ground etching. Signed in pencil and annotated "Artist's Proof". Printed in 1967 for the Dreigroschen Film portfolio and published by Touchstone Publishers. Thi...

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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Paused, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Paused, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Paused, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Debbie Pacheco

Located in Yardley, PA

There is a comfort being with friends, whether talking or just standing together. These two paused on the street for a moment while the city continued to move on. The painting is sof...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"RIDING AT DAWN" MODERN YET VINTAGE COWGIRL BRILLIANT COLORS

"RIDING AT DAWN" MODERN YET VINTAGE COWGIRL BRILLIANT COLORS

Located in San Antonio, TX

Debra Benditz Texas Artist Image Size: 48 x 36 Medium: Oil "Riding at Dawn" Cowgirl We will only ship in the Continental United State for posted shipping price. Debra Benditz Texas Artist Statement My oil paintings are a vibrant expression of the feminine and the can-do spirit of the Wild American West as embodied by my paternal grandmother and great-grandmother, both award-winning horsewomen. I use saturated colors, often found in nature, to interpret burgeoning growth, beauty and the human form especially of Jennie Pawson and Aeola Huston Mitchell, my cowgirl ancestors. I know these feisty women from stories I heard my father tell and from old photographs showing the time Jennie met Theodore Roosevelt, and another from 1901, when she was named a champion of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days. As a child I spent hours on the floor of my grandfather’s music room as Enrico Caruso serenaded me from the Victrola. I gazed in awe at the tall bookcases, art-covered walls and my grandfather’s art nouveau postcard...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm
Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm

Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

Still life with flowers and apple. Oil on paper, 39. 5 x 30 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monu...

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1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

Flowers In A White Pitcher Still Life
Flowers In A White Pitcher Still Life

Flowers In A White Pitcher Still Life

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Flowers in a white pitcher oil on canvas, signed, circa 1927. canvas 19 3/4 x 15 1/4 framed 25 3/4 x 21 1/4 Second still life painting available as shown on photo. Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz (March 1, 1890 – February 13, 2002) was a Polish-born American artist, painter, and writer. The only child of European immigrants Isidore and Anne (Ferber) Bernstein, Theresa was born in Krakow on March 1, 1890. She graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women...

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1920s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Come away with me, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Come away with me, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Come away with me, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Julia Borg

Located in Yardley, PA

Pure beauty lies in harmony, which expresses individuality. Each flower is beautiful, each is endowed with its own uniqueness. A person is able not only to notice and analyze the bea...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Beauty We Carry 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral
Beauty We Carry 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral

Beauty We Carry 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral

By Faith Gbadero

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

There’s something about this piece that feels playful, but also deeply personal. Sometimes, beauty is not about looking a certain way; it is simply about being comfortable enough to ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Beauty We Carry 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral
Beauty We Carry 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral

Beauty We Carry 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Art Deco, Portrait, Floral

By Faith Gbadero

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Sometimes, becoming means learning to love the parts of yourself you once tried to hide. This piece is about that quiet moment when you stop asking the world if you are enough, and s...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Interior With Red Flowers On The Table Still Life
Interior With Red Flowers On The Table Still Life

Interior With Red Flowers On The Table Still Life

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Interior With Red Flowers On The Table Large oil on canvas, signed lower right, title on verso. Born in 1952, Jean-Pierre Mocci arrived in Provence at the age of 8. Self-taught artist, he was interested in the visual arts from a very young age. Participating in many craft fairs, he exhibits paintings and art crafts. He is a complete artist who can be described as a "jack of all trades": oil paintings, watercolors, sculptures, bronzes and ceramics. But it is by painting his adopted Provence that Jean Pierre Mocci...

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1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Research & Development Figural 1 & 2
Research & Development Figural 1 & 2

Research & Development Figural 1 & 2

By Bruce Adams

Located in Buffalo, NY

A pair of paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams. Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late twentieth century painting was rejec...

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1990s Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Canvas

Untitled

JÖRG IMMENDORFFUntitled, 1982

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Untitled

Located in New York, NY

Linocut in colors on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right and numbered 'III 50/50' on the verso, published by Maximilian Verlag/Sabine Knust, Munich, the full sheet, fr...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Linocut

Marc Chagall, The Angel, from Chagall Lithographer I, 1960
Marc Chagall, The Angel, from Chagall Lithographer I, 1960

Marc Chagall, The Angel, from Chagall Lithographer I, 1960

By Marc Chagall

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Marc Chagall (1887–1985) Title: The Angel (L'Ange) Year: October 1960 Medium: Lithograph on velin paper Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches (31.75 x 24.45 cm) Condition: Well pre...

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1960s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Le Jardin Public Arles
Le Jardin Public Arles

Le Jardin Public Arles

By Élisée Maclet

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Maclet was born the son of a gardener and a laundress at Lihons in the Santerre region in Picardy. His family was poor and he began work very young as an assistant to his father. Pic...

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1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
The Songs of Songs of King Salomons

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons

By Théo Tobiasse

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons" Year: 1975 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil Paper: Jap...

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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

"Pure Joy" Contemporary figurative woman's portrait acrylic painting on paper
"Pure Joy" Contemporary figurative woman's portrait acrylic painting on paper

"Pure Joy" Contemporary figurative woman's portrait acrylic painting on paper

By Mougenot Natalya

Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR

Original Contemporary Figurative Painting of a Woman, 50 × 50 cm (19.7 × 19.7 inches), Acrylic and Acrylic Pen on Professional Acid-Free French Paper By French Artist Natalya Mougeno...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Let The Poor Breathe -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa
Let The Poor Breathe -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa

Let The Poor Breathe -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa

By Olajide Kuti

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Ola...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bright new day, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Bright new day, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Bright new day, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

In this vibrant expression of nature's beauty, I've melded expressionism and impressionism with semi-abstract forms, using acrylics to celebrate life's invigorating essence. My brush...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Still life with fruits. 2009, canvas, oil, 81x65 cm

Still life with fruits. 2009, canvas, oil, 81x65 cm

By Sergey Inkatov

Located in Riga, LV

Still life with fruits. 2009, canvas, oil, 81x65 cm Sergey Inkatov Was born: 13.09.1971 in Baku. Painter Sergey Inkatov belongs to young generation of artists of Estonia. He was b...

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Early 2000s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

Spring flower peaceful symbol of innovation Peach blossom is the most beautiful and popular flower in the North of Vietnam, loved by many people and displayed during ...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

Peach blossom Peach blossom is the most beautiful and popular flower in the North of Vietnam, loved by many people and displayed during Tet. Peach tree is considered the quinte...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

Peach blossom is the most beautiful and popular flower in the North of Vietnam, loved by many people and displayed during Tet. Peach tree is considered the quintessence of the Five ...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Peach blossom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

Peach blossom is the most beautiful and popular flower in the North of Vietnam, loved by many people and displayed during Tet. Peach tree is considered the quintessence of the Fiv...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Fruit still life., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Fruit still life., Painting, Oil on Canvas

Fruit still life., Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Iryna Kastsova

Located in Yardley, PA

Fruit still life. Teapot, bottle of wine, glasses, fruits in a vase on a bright abstract background. The painting was painted expressively with a spatula. Modern. Expressionism. Par...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Twin Soul - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women, Love
Twin Soul - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women, Love

Twin Soul - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women, Love

By Kehinde Oyafajo

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

This painting, Twin Soul, explores the invisible bond that connects two bodies, two individuals, two spirits. Though they appear as separate individuals, they share a profound sense ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Rabbi's Communion With God
Rabbi's Communion With God

Rabbi's Communion With God

By Jacob Steinhardt

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Jakob Steinhardt (German/Israeli, 1887-1968) Title: Rabbi's Communion With God Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Color woodcut Paper: Wove Image size: 9.5 x 14 inches Framed size:...

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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Anatole Krasnyansky Original Painting
Anatole Krasnyansky Original Painting

Anatole Krasnyansky Original Painting

By Anatole Krasnyansky

Located in San Francisco, CA

Anatole Krasnyansky: 1930-2023. Well listed Ukrainian American artist who just passed away a few months ago. He has had auction results higher than $7100. He was born in Kyiv and emi...

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Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Watercolor

SAKURA-  cherry blossoms, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
SAKURA-  cherry blossoms, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

SAKURA- cherry blossoms, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

About the Artwork Peach blossom is the most beautiful and popular flower in the North of Vietnam, loved by many people and displayed during Tet. Peach tree is considered the quinte...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bison 1

Bison 1

By Lisa Bostwick

Located in Bozeman, MT

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

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes)  — German Expressionism
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes)  — German Expressionism

'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism

By Karl Michel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed. New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde." Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints. Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...

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1920s Expressionist Art

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Woodcut

Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Odeon-Casino 1911"
Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Odeon-Casino 1911"

Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Odeon-Casino 1911"

By Walter Schnackenberg

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920. The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino...

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1910s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Two Figures Mixed Media On Linen
Two Figures Mixed Media On Linen

Two Figures Mixed Media On Linen

By Jürgen Görg

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Two Figures oil, graphite on linen canvas 40x30 framed. Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in​, Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spent in Koblentz, before moving to Maintz to s...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Linen, Oil, Graphite

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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.