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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
Storm
Storm

Storm

Located in Zofingen, AG

In creating this piece, I sought to capture the tumultuous yet mesmerizing dance of the sea with the sky. Utilizing the vigor of expressionism blended with soft touches of impression...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard

Blue Testament 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern Africa

Blue Testament 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern Africa

By Daniel Owoeye

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 Dan...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

GenZ Lovers -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa, Couple
GenZ Lovers -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa, Couple

GenZ Lovers -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa, Couple

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

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Canvas, Acrylic

Lady In White 1 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
Lady In White 1 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

Lady In White 1 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

By Olaniyi Timothy

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

She holds on to her integrity and purity. Lady in white captures a desire to be hidden, but her presence is revealed through her unquenched innermost beauty. Lady in white captures h...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931

Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931

By (after) Gustav Klimt

Located in Chicago, IL

Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, oil on canvas, 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500. In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original oil paintings were painstakingly reproduced as collotypes on a handmade, deckled-edge cream wove paper. This world-class example of collotype captures the superb resolution and color-richness and ornamentation of the original 1916 oil painting. "Friederike-Maria suggested that Klimt should paint her in a Viennese Workshop dress; she wore these exclusively. She was also very proud of a fur coat she owned, particularly during the hardship of the First World War, and Klimt decided that she should wear the coat too, but inside out, so that the decorative lining, also by the Viennese Workshop, was visible. Klimt decided to make use of an imaginary oriental screen...

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1930s Expressionist Art

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Paper

Impressionist Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1900
Impressionist Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1900

Impressionist Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1900

Located in Roswell, GA

This French Impressionist Paris river scene, Notre Dame, by Ramon Dilley (born 1932), depicts the iconic cathedral along the Seine through atmospheric color, expressive brushwork, an...

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1970s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Tulips. 1996. Oil on canvas, 81х100 cm
Tulips. 1996. Oil on canvas, 81х100 cm

Tulips. 1996. Oil on canvas, 81х100 cm

Located in Riga, LV

Tulips. 1996. Oil on canvas, 81х100 cm Jurgis Skulme (1928-2015) – painter, art scientist. 1954 – The graduating State Art Academy of Latvia, the monumental department (diploma wor...

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1990s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Judith I" collotype print
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Judith I" collotype print

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Judith I" collotype print

Judith I, no. 9 from the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Much like his treatment of the Classical personage, Danae, from Greek mythology, Klimt’s depiction of Judith takes an Old Testament character, a heroine who avenges the death of her husband by killing an Assyrian king, and firmly positions her in his present-day Vienna. His multicolored collotype rips the canvas from its gilded frame which directly references the subject with its title: “Judith und Holofernes”. Now in print form, Judith, holding the severed head of a male in murky shadow, is the ultimate Viennese femme fatale. Her likeness is unmistakably similar to a former lover of Klimt’s and famous Viennese soprano, Anna von Mildenburg. Though his allusion to ancient Assyria is apt, Klimt literally lifted the gold patterned background’s design motif from a relief detail from Sennacherib’s Palace displayed in a London museum. His context then is contemporary. In a sensual and sexually powerful tour de force, Klimt’s Judith...

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Early 1900s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Ink

Quiet Strength 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Oil, Modern, Fashion

Quiet Strength 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Oil, Modern, Fashion

By Afolayan Emmanuel

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 (Issued by the Gal...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Solitude - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Expressionism, Africa

Solitude - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Expressionism, Africa

By Emmanuel Ojebola

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 Emma...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Winter landscape
Winter landscape

Winter landscape

By Adolf Melnars

Located in Riga, LV

Adolfs Melnars (till 1940 – Adolfs Maslovskis) (1908.4.III – 1963.31.X) attended studio of K. Miesnieks (1928), studied in Latvia Art academy (1930 – 39) and graduated studio of G. ...

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1960s Expressionist Art

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Oil, Cardboard

Woven Identities 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Woven Identities 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By Faith Gbadero

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Woven Identities is a body of work that explores the intersection of indigenous African heritage and modern global culture. In these paintings, I focus on hairstyle, tribal marks, dr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"The Lion" original lithograph

"The Lion" original lithograph

By René Beeh

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...

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1920s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

'Karl Michel Exhibition'  — German Expressionism
'Karl Michel Exhibition'  — German Expressionism

'Karl Michel Exhibition' — German Expressionism

By Karl Michel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Karl Michel, 'Austellung Karl Michel', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, numbered 'op. 173' (the artist's inventory number) and '7/20' (the impression number/edition size) and annotated 'Vorgesdruck' (artist's proof) in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on hand-made cream, wove paper, with full margins (1 1/16 to 1 1/2 inches); toning to the right sheet edge deckle, otherwise in good condition. With the artist's blind stamp in the bottom center margin. Designed and printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards (unframed). An elegantly designed, dynamic exhibition announcement with the German copy in the block: 'Austellung Karl Michel – Deutsches Buchmuseum Leipzig/Zeitzer str 12, Berlin S.W. 61 Teltower str 33 / Buchschmuck/ Plakate/ Anzeige/ Schultzmarke/ Illustrations/ Ex Libris'. English translation: 'Karl Michel Exhibition – German Book Museum, Leipzig Zeitzer Street 12, Berlin, S.W. 61 Teltower St. 33. / Book Decoration / Posters / Announcements / Illustrations / Ex Libris.' Image size 6 x 4 inches (152 x 102 mm); sheet size 8 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (205 x 140 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 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

Full Calm
Full Calm

Full Calm

Located in Zofingen, AG

In crafting this piece, I explored the tranquil interplay of light and texture over the serene expanse of water, reflecting a quiet sunset. The gentle blending of acrylic and oil in ...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard

Blue Testament 7 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern Africa

Blue Testament 7 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern Africa

By Daniel Owoeye

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 Dan...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mirando al Cielo 8 - Renaissance Landscape Swallows Murmuration Landscape

Mirando al Cielo 8 - Renaissance Landscape Swallows Murmuration Landscape

By Rosa Basurto

Located in Brighton, GB

Mirando al Cielo 8 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size. Rosa Basurto is a self-taught...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Color, Digital, Photographic Paper, C Print

Red city
Red city

Red city

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Rendered in pulsating red and blue tones, this urban landscape serves as a powerful visual metaphor for existential loneliness within a metropolis. The sharp contrast between the lon...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women
Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women

Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women

By Elijah Olanase

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 Eli...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mère et enfant, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
Mère et enfant, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned

Mère et enfant, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned

By Jean Jansem

Located in Les Acacias GE, GE

Jean Jansem (1920-2013) Mère et enfant, 1986, état noir Lithographie sur papier Arches Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche 67,5 x 51 cm / 76 x 54 cm Très rare exemplaire D'une édition à 30 exemplaires sur Arches de l'état noir. Bibliographie: Imprimeur: Mourlot, Paris Editeur: Galerie Matignon, Paris Bibliographie: Jansem Lithographe, 1984-1993, Flora Jansem, Paris, n. 50, reproduit p. 56, référencé p. 109. "Ma première lithographie date de 1954. Elle représente un enfant en haillons portant deux seaux d'eau, d'après un croquis rapporté de Cordoue lors de mon voyage en Espagne en 1952. Je l'exécutai sur pierre, au pinceau et à l'encre lithographique. Je fus déçu du résultat et n'en tirai qu'un essai et une épreuve. Quatre ans plus tard, je réalisai une dizaine de nouvelles lithographies, toujours sur pierre, la plupart en noir. Au lieu d'employer l'encre et le crayon...

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Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

In Her Solitude - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
In Her Solitude - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

In Her Solitude - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

By Olaniyi Timothy

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

In her solitude, she finds clarity. The world outside may move at an unforgiving pace, but here, in the quiet, she breathes. She sits with her thoughts, letting them rise and fall li...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape 139 by Jean Krille - Oil on Canvas board 50x60 cm
Landscape 139 by Jean Krille - Oil on Canvas board 50x60 cm

Landscape 139 by Jean Krille - Oil on Canvas board 50x60 cm

By Jean Krille

Located in Geneva, CH

Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...

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Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Woven Identities 5 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Woven Identities 5 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By Faith Gbadero

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Woven Identities is a body of work that explores the intersection of indigenous African heritage and modern global culture. In these paintings, I focus on hairstyle, tribal marks, dr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Sunflower" collotype print
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Sunflower" collotype print

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Sunflower" collotype print

Sunflower, no. 10 from the third installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Created during his residency in Litzlberg on Attersee, where Klimt and the Floge family summered from 1900-1907, Klimt explores nature’s transcendental qualities. His single sunflower is human-like, it’s golden halo is like a ring of sun-kissed hair surrounding a bald pate. It’s known that at the same time Klimt was creating this image, he was also at work on a photo essay about the Floge sisters’ clothing from their fashion salon. Their fashion house was best known for its “reform dresses” which featured loose-fitting long robes which billowed at the arms and torso. Viewed with this in mind, it is not a hard leap to imagine the lone sunflower as a self-portrait from reverse. Klimt’s balding head crowned in a golden corona forms the apex of a pyramidal flowing gown of foliage and flowers. By orienting the anthropomorphic flower at the garden’s central foreground and adorning it with repetitive motifs of round flowers of varying sizes, Klimt’s sunflower...

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Early 1900s Expressionist Art

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Paper

Colorful Tablescape Still-Life of Bottles & Fruit. Gouache, Pastel. 54cm x 72cm.
Colorful Tablescape Still-Life of Bottles & Fruit. Gouache, Pastel. 54cm x 72cm.

Colorful Tablescape Still-Life of Bottles & Fruit. Gouache, Pastel. 54cm x 72cm.

By André Pierard

Located in Cotignac, FR

1970s tablescape still-life of bottles and fruit in pastel and gouache on paper by Belgian artist André Pierard. Not signed but acquired along with a collection of work from the arti...

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1970s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel

Framed Expressionist Flowers Pastel Painting, Circa 1900
Framed Expressionist Flowers Pastel Painting, Circa 1900

Framed Expressionist Flowers Pastel Painting, Circa 1900

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Aurelio Tolosa y Alsina (Barcelona, 1861 - Barcelona, 1938) was a painter and decorator who developed his artistic activity mainly around the city of Barcelona. He was a pupil at fir...

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Early 1900s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

LES DEUX AMIES Signed Lithograph, 1980, Abstract Fantasy Portrait, CoBrA Artist
LES DEUX AMIES Signed Lithograph, 1980, Abstract Fantasy Portrait, CoBrA Artist

LES DEUX AMIES Signed Lithograph, 1980, Abstract Fantasy Portrait, CoBrA Artist

Les Deux Amies is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors on archival Somerset paper 100% acid, free, by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. Les Deux Amies is a fantastical red outlined portrait of two people; one a frontally posed female depicted with a bright blue, wavy wedge hairdo and dark mauve face. Her colorful mask...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor
"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor

"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor

Located in Soquel, CA

"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor Grey tones dominate this rocky coastal painting by John Addyman (Wales, 1929-2006), characterized by his use of muted tones, pr...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

In Her Solace - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
In Her Solace - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

In Her Solace - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern

By Olaniyi Timothy

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

In such a world, so chaotic. Snares and spells revolving. Finding one’s peace can be very demanding. Living life, very. Man cannot live without a pacifier, one that helps him recove...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Two Woodsmen, Original Painting
Two Woodsmen, Original Painting

Two Woodsmen, Original Painting

By Robert Hofherr

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two woodsmen stand in a sunlit spring forest in this Fauvist painting. The figures balance the large tree trunks and dense foliage around them. Bright colors an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp' — German Expressionism
'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp' — German Expressionism

'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp' — German Expressionism

By Karl Michel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp - Homunculus und Galatee', etching, 1923, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and numbered 'Op. 140' (the artist's inventory number) in pencil. Si...

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1920s Expressionist Art

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Etching

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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.