German Expressionism

Tanner Harmsen Ms. Bromley October 2, 2016 Artist Essay Paul Klee Paul Klee was a German and Swiss artist best known for his amount of art influenced by expressionism, surrealism, and cubism. Paul Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, on December 18, 1879. He was involved and influenced by many artistic movements, including cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He taught in Germany until 1933. His family then fled to Switzerland, where he died on June 29, 1940. In his early life he…

spiritual vision of the world through paintings. Toward the end of the era came cubism, also around the early 1900s. Cubism is known as the first abstract style of modern art. At the turn of the 20th century, art movements such as impressionism, expressionism, and cubism reflected the history and culture of Europe through the paintings of nature and modern life. The…

give of an impressionist feeling due to patches of different saturations that are shown in the painting along with the abstraction quality in the overall piece. 5. 1906, Modersohn, Paula, Becker, Self Portrait with an Amber Necklace, German, German Expressionism. TXT- She describes her nude subjects as primitive pieces of abstraction, reducing idealized forms and focus on simplifying the figures. Creating a flatten image with little modeling that brings out the primitive quality of the…

It is filled with imagery of death, suffering and pain. Otto Dix was a German, who strongly disapproved of war, as is shown in this painting, Dix felt that the war was pointless, which is shown with the unnecessary gore and despair shown in his work. This masterpiece is also very representative of the suffering of those who…

Jan Tschichold is from Leipzig Germany and is a typography and author. Born in 1902, Tschichold trained as a calligrapher and designer at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Production from the ages of 17 and 19 then began freelancing as a lettering artist and designer. He was hired at a printing firm to draw page layouts for the typesetters. While working there, he visited a Bauhaus exhibition that drew him into the new Modernist movement. A couple of years later, Tschichold joined…

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly…

World War II and the reign of the Nazi Party greatly affected the whole world and shaped it into what it is today. It not only affected the economics and political aspects of countries but also the artistic side as well. It allowed for the modern art movement in Europe to travel across the sea to other countries, allowing its ideals to spread. With what happened to art during the reign of Hitler it can be said that it both changed how art was seen and also showed that no powerful force could…

painting that followed it, was created in a rush of emotion (L44). In 1889, Van Gogh painted The Starry Night. Kloss states: it is “majestic, expressionistic and unexpected. It is often cited as one of the most important precursors of German and Nordic Expressionism.” “At least one art historian has observed that it is more powerful, and more imaginative, than anything in later Expressionistic art, which proceeded from a similar charged vision of Nature (L44). Van Gogh’s work around this…

publicized, affair with the psychoactive substance, and each chronicles their experiences with cocaine in their work. The following argument will consider both of these poets and selections of their work when discussing the role of cocaine among the Austro-German Expressionists and the particular relevance of poetry to the history of the…

German expressionism appeared, as the name implies, in pre-WW1 Germany. During these times, the country was in turmoil and was facing complete isolation from other countries, especially during the end of World War I and the subsequent change in regime, as in The German Empire was transformed into a republic, more specifically the Weimar Republic, would bring Germany to its knees. Thus, it comes to no surprise that a country with such issues would produce these kinds of films; surrealistic,…