Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in to escape the rise of Nazism. From —43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.
Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his Chaim Soutine. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.
Working mostly in Budapest, he was one of the first Hungarian painters to become known in Europe. The Rendezvous "Meeting of the lovers" was bought by an anonymous client for more than one million EUR. Photo: Cea. Georges Rouault. Oskar Kokoschka. Oskar Kokoschka 1 March — 22 February was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Helene Schjerfbeck. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes.
Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically. Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of lateth-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.
Photo: Metaweb FB. Alberto Giacometti. Beginning in , he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.
His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition, as well as existential and phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. Around he gave up on his Surrealistic influences in order to pursue a more deepened analysis of Bernard Buffet.
He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from up until his death in , in other words during almost his entire career spanning four decades. He was a highly productive painter as well as a writer and public speaker.
Eloy was born in Lisbon. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that he admired during his staying in Germany, from to , especially Carl Hofer. After returning to Portugal, he became the best representative from expressionism in the Portuguese painting.
Some of his latter works, like "Enterro" c. In year , he had to leave painting due to a serious mental disease and spent the rest of his life in a mental Lyonel Feininger. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in and met with much success in this area.
He was also a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the USA and Germany. At the age of 36, he started to work as a fine artist. He also produced a large body of photographic works between and the mid s, but he kept these primarily within his circle of friends. He was also a pianist Robert Delaunay. Robert Delaunay 12 April — 25 October was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
Mikhail Evstafiev. His interest in painting and photography began at an early age. His mother, grandmother and great grandfather — all prominent Russian sculptors — inspired him to develop his own style in art. In the late s he volunteered to serve in Afghanistan and spent two years in the Soviet army, stationed in Kabul, witnessing the numerous combat operations and the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
Chang Dai-chien. Originally known as a guohua traditionalist painter, by the s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. In addition, he is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century. Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Wilhelm Lehmbruck 4 January — 25 March was a German sculptor.
Ernst Barlach. Ernst Barlach 2 January in Wedel — 24 October in Rostock was a German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war. This created many conflicts during the rise of the Nazi Party, when most of his works were confiscated as degenerate art. Emily Carr. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes—forest scenes in particular.
As a writer, Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon". John Singer Sargent. John Singer Sargent ; January 12, — April 14, was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly oil paintings and more than 2, watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. He was born in Florence to American parents, and trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe.
He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter. Abraham Rattner. Abraham Rattner July 8, — February 14, was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often with religious subject matter. Army as a camouflage artist. Photo: user uploaded image. Best known for his Seelenblumen "Soulflowers" cycle of paintings, he was an important contributor to the development of modern art and avant-garde trends inside Romania where he spent the larger part of his life.
He was the grandfather of the artist Waldemar Mattis-Teutsch. Verika is a South African abstract expressionist painter focusing on femininity and sensuality. Oskar Herman. Oskar Herman — was a Croatian Jewish painter. He was one of the group of Croatian artists known as the Munich Circle, who had a strong influence on modern art in Croatia. James Ensor.
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor 13 April — 19 November was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
Albert Tucker. Albert Lee Tucker 29 December — 23 October , was an Australian artist, and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide", located in Bulleen, near Heidelberg outside Melbourne , was a haven for the group.
Nicolae Tonitza. Mexican , - Jacoba van Heemskerck. Dutch , - Paula Modersohn-Becker. Constantin Brancusi. Max Jacob. Mommie Schwarz. Bela Kadar. Gustave de Smet. Kees van Dongen. Gabriele Munter. Alfred Kubin. Helen Dahm. Sallinen Tyko. Paul Klee. Franz Marc. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Georg Tappert. Jacob Epstein. Theophrastos Triantafyllidis. Max Weber. Iosif Iser. Leon Spilliaert. Much like Kandinsky, Marc was hoping to evoke a spiritual reaction within the viewer through his eye-catching pieces.
Michael Ramsauer is a contemporary German artist whose ethereal style leaves the viewer filling in the gaps with their own interpretation. Swooping brushstrokes make figures emerge from the landscape that surrounds them.
Artworks Artists Collections. Artworks Artists Collections Buy art online. Vincent van Gogh Of course we have to kick things off with Vincent van Gogh. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait Max Beckmann was a German painter, writer and sculptor who was known for the dramatized nightlife, mythical or biblical scenes in his work.
Although he is broadly labeled as an expressionist painter, he rejected the movement and denied being a part of it. Beckmann often depicted his own face in his work, which can be identified by a frowning face with a large head. The Night was a product of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity movement, which was established as an anti-expressionist rebellion.
The piece portrays gruesome elements of sex, death and violence, drawing attention to the overstimulation and obscenity of modern society. Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and artist who lived and worked in France. He is known for his nude portraits of women which are characterized by elongated necks and bodies, blank facial expressions and eye contact with the viewer.
His work was not well received until his death, but today he remains one of the most prolific painters of his time. Reclining Nude is part of a series of nude portraits by Modigliani that began in The portraits were influenced by depictions of Venus in ancient Greco-Roman and Italian Renaissance art , and the women are often idealized as such. The use of soft skin coloration stands out against dark, interior backgrounds, connoting a sense of intimacy between subject and artist.
The subject in Reclining Nude lays back with casual ease as if relaxed in the presence of the painter. He was also known for his woodcutting, which featured angular shapes, strong linework and simplistic color schemes.
His painting featured softer, less rigid linework and a variety of color mixtures, displaying influences from Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of a Man is a painted woodcut composition. Like his other woodcut portraits, the piece features sharp, defined features.
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