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Leo Meiersdorff

Jazz Composition - Bass and Trumpet
Jazz Composition - Bass and Trumpet

Jazz Composition - Bass and Trumpet

By Leo Meiersdorff

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Leo Meiersdorff – German/American (1934-1994) Title: Bass and Trumpet Year: ca 1965-70 Medium: Watercolor and ink Sight size: 14.25 x 17.5 inches.

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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

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Leo Meiersdorff Rare Large Original Watercolor Painting Signed Food Wine Artwork
Leo Meiersdorff Rare Large Original Watercolor Painting Signed Food Wine Artwork

Leo Meiersdorff Rare Large Original Watercolor Painting Signed Food Wine Artwork

By Leo Meiersdorff

Located in Bloomington, MN

Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item up for sal...

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1980s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Leo Meiersdorff Original Large Watercolor Painting New Orleans Signed Cajun Art
Leo Meiersdorff Original Large Watercolor Painting New Orleans Signed Cajun Art

Leo Meiersdorff Original Large Watercolor Painting New Orleans Signed Cajun Art

By Leo Meiersdorff

Located in Bloomington, MN

Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item up for sal...

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1980s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1978 Leo Meiersdorff “Jazz New Orleans” Framed Poster
1978 Leo Meiersdorff “Jazz New Orleans” Framed Poster

1978 Leo Meiersdorff “Jazz New Orleans” Framed Poster

Located in Bradenton, FL

Set in a red metal frame and wired ready to hang. Leo Meiersdorff 1934 - 1994 was an American-German painter best known for his Expressionist ink and watercolor drawings of jazz m...

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Vintage 1970s American Expressionist Posters

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Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally
Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally

Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally

By Leo Meiersdorff

Located in Bloomington, MN

Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item up for sal...

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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Leo Meiersdorff Original Watercolor Painting New Orleans Music Portrait Signed
Leo Meiersdorff Original Watercolor Painting New Orleans Music Portrait Signed

Leo Meiersdorff Original Watercolor Painting New Orleans Music Portrait Signed

By Leo Meiersdorff

Located in Bloomington, MN

Leo Meiersdorff Authentic and Large Original Watercolor Painting, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item up for sal...

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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

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A Close Look at Expressionist Art

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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