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GERMAN EXPRESSONISM
(1905-1935)
Veronica Bennett
Natalie Oliver
Ellexus Montoya
CHARACTORISTICS
• Vivid color• Subjective• Distorted colors and images• agitated strokes/bold lines• Expresses emotion• Sets a mood• Exaggeration• Direct composition • Dramatic
Background
• Germany had become more industrial• World War I and II• Draft• Post Impressionism• Depression and debt in Germany
INFLUENCES• Vincent Van Gogh
– Post impressionism painter– Temperamental (crazy)– Used color to express emotion– Religious background
• Edvard Munch – Painter and printmaker– Inspired by African tribal art– Extremely psychological and emotional– Extremely religious background– Art explained childhood experiences/mental decline
Starry night
Cypresses
Bedroom at Arles
The Scream
Puberty
Die Brüke (1905-1913)• Means: “The Bridge”• Bridge between Germany’s past and future• Adresses social classes, wealth, German
nightlife, and chaos that reigned in their cities• Based in Dresden, Germany• Expressed radical social views • Inspired by the combination of traditional ,
African, Oceanic, Tribal, and Fauvism art. • Same values as romanticism
ARTISTS
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
• Ernst Kirchner• Erich Heckel• Fritz Bleyl• Emil Nolde
Schmidt- Rottluff• Printer, Painter, and Sculptor• Most independent of the group• Focused on landscapes (paintings and watercolors)• 1911- he migrated to Berlin • 1915- served on the Eastern Front• Began making religious woodcuts• Returned from the war and continues paintings and
watercolors• 1931-1933 art was removed from museums and
expelled from artist guild
Red Tower in a Park
Blooming Trees
Girl At The Mirror
Two Women
Kirchner• First created wood scluptures• After moving to Berlin, transitioned to
paintings of streets and scenes• Inspired by Primitivism• Drafted for WWI in 1915 but didn’t serve
due to a nervous breakdown• Returned to Berlin and was hit by a car• Recovered in Switzerland and painted
landscapes• Prior to WWII, the Nazi’s declared his work
“degenerate art” and confiscated it from museums.
• Kirchner went into depression and shot himself
Nude (dodo)
Berlin Street Scene
Judgment of Paris
Self Portrait as a Solider
Emile Nolde• Joined Die Brucke in 1906• Only stayed in the group for a few
months• Older and more conservative than the
other members of the group• Landscapes, seascapes, and biblical
themed paintings• His work reflected his strict Protestant
upbringing• Art was confiscated by Nazi’s as
“degenerate art”
Moonlit Night
Sunflowers
Candle Dancers
Crucifixion
Der Blaue Reiter (1911-1914)• Means “the Blue Rider”• Second expressionist group formed.• Formed in Munich, Germany • Formed by Russian Immigrants • lacked a central artistic manifesto • centered around Kandinsky and Marc• Spiritually inclined • Inject art with spiritual values using color• Broke up during WW1
ARTISTS
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Franz Marc
• August Macke
• Alexej von Jawlensky
Wassily Kandinsky
• Born in Russia but raised in Germany• Had the condition Synaesthesia• Blue was a important color to him• His links between music and art influenced his
experimentation with color • Gave up being a lawyer to devote himself to
painting • Art moved from depictions of realistic form
to the spiritual realms of abstraction
The Blue Rider
Murnau- View with railroad and castle
St. George II
Franz Marc
• Influenced by the Swiss animal painter: Jean Bole Niestle
• Had his own color theory• Deeply religious- Pantheistic• Almost always painted animals• When he and Macke died, Blau Reiter
Ended
Small Blue Horses
Deer in the Woods
The Tiger
Kammerspielfilm (chamber feature film)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari• Nosferatu (1922) • Film Trailer
• Metropolis(1926)