"To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life." - Egon Schiele
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The Expressionist art movement
was conceived in opposition to
Impressionism. The Expressionist
painters required emotional drama, pure
color and innovation. They disdained dreamy landscapes, water
lilies and Japanese bridges. Controversial
Austrian
Expressionist Painter,
Egon Schiele
asserted,
"I must see new things and
investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and
wild winds." Expressionist painters looked inward
at their own emotions, and less upon the outside world for inspiration.
Painters of the Expressionist generation grew up on the battlefield,
witnessing wartime atrocities and returning to war ravaged countries.
The German Expressionists,
George Grosz,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Emil Nolde and
Oskar Kokoschka
dominated the art scene with powerful, emotional work based on the human struggle
and futility of war. Their art-work
was born in a world of confusion and social collapse.
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The Greatest Expressionist Painters of All Time
Francis Bacon British, 1909-1992 Expressionist Painter
James Ensor Belgian, 1860-1949 Expressionist Painter
Alexei Jawlensky Russian, 1864-1941 Expressionist Painter
Ernst Kirchner German, 1880-1938 Expressionist Painter
Paul Klee Swiss, 1879-1940 Expressionist Painter
August Macke German, 1887-1914 Expressionist Painter
Franz Marc German, 1880-1916 Expressionist / Fauvist
Edvard Munch Norwegian, 1863-1944 Symbolist/Expressionist
Emil Nolde German, 1867-1956 Expressionist Painter
Rouault French, 1871-1958 Expressionist Painter
Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890-1918 Expressionist Painter
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