Expressionism

Wolf, Norbert 1949- (Author). Grosenick, Uta, (editor.).

Summary: With leading groups Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and key players such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, and Emil Nolde, the Expressionists disowned Impressionism, which they regarded as "man lowered to the position of a gramophone record of the outer world", to depict instead a raw and visceral experience of life as it was felt, rather than seen on the surface. Their paintings brim with emotive force, conveyed in particular through intense and non-naturalistic color palettes, loose brushwork, and thick textures. Covering the group's stylistic tendencies, influences, and most important protagonists, this introductory book explores the Expressionist panorama of moods, ideas, and emotions and their abiding quest for deep authenticity--

Record details

ISBN: 9783836505284
ISBN: 3836505282
Physical Description: print
95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Köhn, Germany : Taschen, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:

Translated from the German.

Formatted Contents Note:

Metaphysical German Meatloaf -- The Refugee / Ernst Barlach -- Scene from the "Earthquake in Messina" / Max Beckmann -- The Night -- Bucolic Landscape / Heinrich Campendonk -- The Red Christ / Lovis Corinth -- Self-Portrait as a Soldier / Otto Dix -- Prager Strasse -- Market Church in Halle / Lyonel Feininger / Dedicated to Oskar Panizza / George Grosz -- Pechstein Asleep / Erich Heckel -- Glass Day -- Portrait of the Dancer Alexander Sacharoff / Alexej von Jawlensky -- St. Ludwig's Church in Munich / Wassily Kandinsky -- Improvisation Klamm -- Artiste (Marcella) / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner = Potsdamer Platz -- Fohn Wind, in Franz Marcs Garden / Paul Klee -- Portrait of Herwarth Walden, The Wind's Bride (The Tempest) / Oskar Kokoschka -- The Fallen Man / Wilhelm Lehmbruck -- Lady in a Green Jacket / August Macke -- The Small Yellow Horses / Franz Marc -- Tyrol -- Apocalyptic City / Ludwig Meidner -- Self-Portrait with Camelia Branch / Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Gypsies with Sunflowers / Otto Mueller -- Schoolhouse, Murnau / Gabriele Miinter -- The Legend of St. Maria Aegyptiaca / Emil Nolde -- The Legend of St. Maria Aegyptiaca, Tropical Sun / Palau Triptych / Max Pechstein -- Acrobats / Christian Rohlfs -- Standing Male Nude (Self-Portrait) / Egon Schiele -- Portrait of Rosa Schapire / Karl Schmidt-Rottluff -- The Red Gaze / Arnold Schoenberg -- Self-Portrait / Marianne von Werefkin.