Expressionist Art
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Cosmopolitan (Small)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
26.5" x 30" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
The red forest, V. Templin, Paint/panel, Expressionist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Russia, 1920-1994
Victor Leonidovic Templin was born on January 20, 1920 in the village of Vischenki, Zaoksk district, Tula region, Russia. Templin attended high school in the city of Serpuhovo from 1928 to 1935. After this, he attended the Gorky School of the Arts in the same city. Templin already took painting lessons during his studies.
In 1938, Victor Templin...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Paint, Panel
These Cost?
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
26" x 24" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
“These Cost is a satirical piece on the fact that a beautiful woman has never paid...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Spirit of the Chase
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
18" x 32" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Quarantine Blues
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
23” x 12” Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Astura
Located in New York, NY
This original SERIGRAPH is in excellent condition, frame with a mat and a second bevel mat.
A serigraph is not flat as a lithograph, instead it has texture (appears to be like an oi...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
White Tie Affair
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrast...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
One In The Hand
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
19" x 39.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas with Hand Embellishment of 50
Hand Signed By Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contra...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
Hudson Freeze at Bear Mountain
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tony Khawam is an established contemporary artist known for his semi-abstracted work of the New York urban and industrial landscape and recently of South Florida. He holds a BFA from...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Dancing Ballerina
Located in New York, NY
2023, Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Coco the Clown in Top Hat and Bow Tie. Milan School, Italian Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Expressionist oil on canvas portrait of a clown by Italian artist Luciano Morterra. Signed bottom right and dated 1976 to the bottom left and presented in a period frame under glass....
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Her Satisfied Place
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 30" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 195
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Morning Shower, Hand Printed Work, Screen
Located in Yardley, PA
Lithograph on archival quality paper, made with two colours. Belongs to a series on everyday life themes. Small format. :: Hand Printed Work :: Expressionism :: This piece comes wi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
Every Kiss She Wasted Bad
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 18" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee of 45
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s ey...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Peek a Bunny
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
22" x 22" Framed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Todd Whit
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Kite
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I want to tell you what it means when a man feels at home. It is not when he sits in his house alone; it is when he can step out of his home without thinking it is risky to do so.
(...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Falling Sparrow
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 14" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
2021
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting co...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
A Meeting of Minds #3, Original Painting
By Kip Decker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Kip Decker presents a profound scene of Native Americans on horseback. They convene to discuss important matters and plans of action. "It is an ancient a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
1950's Expressionist Judaica Painting "I Lit All My Candles" Hanukkah Menorah
By Hildegard Rath
Located in Surfside, FL
Hildegard Rath, (1909-1994) painter, author, teacher, and lecturer, Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region of Germany. Hildegard Rath became a painter of landscape, portraits, still lifes, and marine subjects and also a muralist. Her father was a bank president, her mother a sculptor, writer, and illustrator of children's books. At the age of 15, Miss Rath painted her first portrait in oil as a birthday present for her father and thereafter every opportunity for study was given to her.
She went to art school at the Atelier House in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Berlin. She studied with Lotte Laserstein...
Category
1950s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fast Balls Curve Balls
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
27" x 34" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 75
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Le Pieton de Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: "Le Pieton de Paris"
Year: c.1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 42/175 in pencil
Paper: Japan paper
Image ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Portrait of Truman Capote" by John MacWhinnie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John MacWhinnie, American (1946 - )
Title: Portrait of Truman Capote
Year: 1968
Medium: Mixed Media on Board (Oil and Pencil), signed and dated l.r.
Size: 23.5 x 18 inches
Fr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil
A Little Fling
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
22.5" x 14.5" Framed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas with Hand-Embellishment
Numbered of 50
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes wi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
Coming Up Roses
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
18" x 10" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
“Being an observational artist of 53 years, I truly understand, only now, life is...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
No Photos Please
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
42" x 31" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes a...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chorizo
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
12" x 9" Unframed
Original Sketch
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as those in ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Red Bird, Original Painting
By Julia Hacker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Step into a magical world," says artist Julia Hacker. She paints a whimsical landscape with textural plants and a mysterious bird hovering against a vibrant tu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Zucchini Blossom
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Basquiat
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Jean-Michel Basquiat, a prodigious talent who tragically left this world too soon, was a force of nature in the art world of the 1980s. His works were characterized by a unique fusio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media
Hearts on Her Sleeve, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Colette Wirz Nauke explores mixed media and freestyle designs in this portrait. The lady exudes a stoic grace, with patterns of heart embellishing her pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
English Girls Are Mean
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 19" Unframed
Limited Edition Face Mounted Acrylic Giclee on Canvas with Hand Embellishment of 45
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
She Still Loves to Feel the Pages
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 22.75" Unframed
Hand Embellished Giclée on Paper of 14
Hand Signed by Todd White
COA Included
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting color...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Arboreal Acrobats, Hand Printed Work, Screen
Located in Yardley, PA
Silkscreen work on archival quality paper. The background, the sky, was first painted in watercolor. The remaining phases of the work are done with the silkscreen technique. Silhouet...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
Lovers At Sunset 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
" Lovers At Sunset" is a series of 3 designs, romantic paintings of embraced lovers man and woman. The paintings are made on stretched canvas, painted edges and ready to hang. The co...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Large French Expressionist View, a Provencal Street Scene, The Colonnades.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large late 20th Century Expressionist oil on canvas by French artist Jean Arène (1929 - 2020), depicting a Provençal, South of France architectural street scene. The canvas is signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panning For Gold
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
29.5" x 12" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting col...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Astral Landcsape
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Solicitude IV
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Solicitude" invites the audience into a world of contemplation and reflection, where the central theme revolves around the power of empathy and its a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Raventos Piano and Scores original expressionist acrylic canvas painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Piano and scores original expressionist acrylic canvas 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
Rollin With the Homies, Recent Works by Tom Everhart (Signed Poster)
By Tom Everhart
Located in Toronto, ON
35" x 24" Unframed
Rolling With the Homies Recent Works Poster
Hand Signed by Tom Everhart
2013
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Other Medium
The Winter Sun - original winter landscape
Located in Zofingen, AG
The evening expressionist painting with the snowy forest and the setting Sun is a beautiful wall decor, the painting is full of different colours, combinations of warm and cold shade...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
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...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled Figures, by Maurice Golubov, Oil on Board Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This work by Maurice Golubov, is an oil painting on board, and consists of a red, green, white, grey and brown color palette. This style of art is expressionist and figurative, with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Voodoo That You Do
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 15" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
“Those individuals who just have that power to seduce you. Some definitely have it...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Social Distancing (Original)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
21” x 11” Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Shady Table
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
17" x 40" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 195
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
The Little Things (Original)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
10” x 6” Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Still Life on a Table', Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Pompidou Center, Nice
By Sylvain Vigny
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Vigny" for Sylvain Vigny (French, 1903-1970) and painted, circa 1935, on artists board prepared by Maison Franco, 19 Rue Pastorelli, Nice.
Born in Vienna, Sylvain...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Lost Creek Lake, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Impasto; thick & rich texture. Moody and emotive, lake view in Autumn :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the arti...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Hard Candy
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
40" x 30" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting color...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Confessions
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 14" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
2021
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting c...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Acrylic on Canvas Titled: "Little Rita”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Robert was born in 1949 to Dominick and Antoinette Catapano in Brooklyn New York. He is a self taught artist. He began drawing and painting as a child. He says he did it as a way of ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Bad For Your Health
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
33.75" x 17.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
“Definitely a painting about the ones you know are a total mistake from the ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Giclée
Always August, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist George Peebles presents his interpretation of fall at its finest. The tree, adorned with red, orange, and yellow leaves, stands towering amid an expansiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Summer Still Life with Flowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Alix Palo renders an expressive still life of colorful flowers within a glass vase. The dynamic brushstrokes breathe life into the piece, capturing the b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Peace, unity and harmony, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Seagull Games
Located in Zofingen, AG
Seagulls are playing over the sea, in flight and weightlessness, as a symbol of independence and freedom from the problems of humanity. Or is this Providence playing with the World
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Courageous Spirit
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Tunde Bakare, a visionary artist with an uncanny ability to infuse profound emotions into his works, has risen to prominence for his powerful portrayal of marginalized voices and the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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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.
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