2. Characteristics (painting):
The use of uncharacteristic colours
chosen by the artist…
To release of the artist’s inner vision
To evoke feelings from the viewer
Distortion of images and violent
brushstrokes.
3. German Expressionism
“Die Brucke” (The Bridge)
Colour, Distortion of Images and
Violent Brushstrokes.
Movement centered in Dresden,
Germany and led by Ernst
Kirschner
Ernst Kirschner,
Self Portrait as a Soldier, 1915.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
4. Ernst Kirschner,
Two Women in the Street,
1914.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
7. The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and one of the main symbols
of Berlin, Germany. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which
one formerly entered Berlin.
8. Kathe Kollwitz
Worked almost exclusively
in printmaking and
drawing
Themes of inhumanity and
injustice
The plight of workers and
war victims
Her son died during first
week of WWI
Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors, 1923.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
12. Der Blaue Reiter
(The Blue Rider)
Another German Expressionist
movement that produced feeling as
visual FORM – not just color
Vassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.
Complete abstraction- non-objective work - elimination of representation
Knew about music, literature, science (the atomic theory) - material
objects have no structure or purpose
Orchestration of color, form, line, and space- blueprints for an enlightened
and liberated society, emphasizing spirituality
17. Marsden Hartley was an American living
in Munich and was directly influenced by
these European movements
Marsden Hartley,
Portrait of a German Officer
1914.