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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the…

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Location
Predominantly Germany
Influenced
American Figurative Expressionism, generally, and Boston Expressionism, in particular
Major figures
Artists loosely categorized within such groups as Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter; the Berlin Secession, the School of Paris and the Dresden Secession
Years active
The years before WWI and the interwar years

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related to history · 42
Expressionism → American, An, An Expressionist, Antonin Matějček, August Strindberg, Austrian, Belgian, Czech, Die Büchse, Dream Play, Dutch, Earth Spirit, Edvard Munch, Erdgeist, Expressionismes, Expressionist, Frank Wedekind, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, German
related to In the United States · 38
Expressionism → Abstract Expressionism, After, After World War II, American, American Expressionism, American Figurative Expressionism, American German Expressionist, Boston Expressionism, Brooklyn Museum, Embry, Entartete Kunst, European, Expressionist, German, Germany, Hess, In, It, Kandinsky, Katherine Sophie Dreier
related to Music · 34
Expressionism → Adorno, Alban Berg, Alexander Scriabin, Another, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Bluebeard's Castle, Béla Bartók, Die Glückliche Hand, Erwartung, Expressionist, Expressionists, Georg Büchner, Gustav Mahler, If, Igor Stravinsky, Important, Japanese Songs, Kandinsky, Krenek
related to Architecture · 26
Expressionism → Architecture, Arquitectura Emocional, Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion, Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, Emotional Architecture, Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower, Expressionist, German, Germany, Goeritz's, Grosse Schauspielhaus, Hans Poelzig's Berlin, In, In Mexico, It, Luis Barragán, Mathias Goeritz, Max Reinhardt, Modern Mexican, Potsdam
related to Cinema · 26
Expressionism → American, Caligari, David Lynch's, Douglas Sirk, Dr, Expressionist, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, German, German Expressionism, Hollywood, Horror, How He Came, However, Ingmar Bergman, Murnau's Nosferatu, Murnau's Sunrise, Paul Wegener's The Golem, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet, Song, Symphony
related to In Germany and Austria · 25
Expressionism → African, Austria, Berlin, Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Dresden, Edvard Munch, Expressionism's, Expressionist, Fauves, French Impressionism, Germany, Gogh, In, It, Kandinsky, Munich, Paris, The, The Blue Rider
related to The School of Paris · 15
Expressionism → Abraham Mintchine, André Warnod, Chaim Soutine, Frenkel, In Paris, Jewish, Marc Chagall, Montparnasse, Others, Paris, School, The, These, This, Yitzhak Frenkel
related to External links · 4
Expressionism → Christian Saehrendt, February, German, Hottentots
see also · 2
Expressionism → PaintingWestern Painting, Post-expressionismNew ObjectivityHistory
Influenced · 1
Expressionism → American Figurative Expressionism, generally, and Boston Expressionism, in particular

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expressionist artists german expressionists movement germany art also der american influenced term world paris early style war painting school figurative

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ExpressionismInfluencedAmerican Figurative Expressionism, generally, and Boston Expressionism, in particular1.00infobox
ExpressionismLocationPredominantly Germany1.00infobox
ExpressionismMajor figuresArtists loosely categorized within such groups as Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter; the Berlin Secession, the School of Paris and the Dresden Secession1.00infobox
ExpressionismYears activeThe years before WWI and the interwar years1.00infobox
Expressionismis amodernist movement0.90text
Matthias Grünewaldinstance ofmuch older painters0.80text
El Greco are sometimes termed expressionistinstance ofmuch older painters0.80text
though the term is applied mainly to 20th-century worksinstance ofmuch older painters0.80text
Naturalisminstance ofThe Expressionist emphasis on individual and subjective perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles0.80text
Impressionisminstance ofThe Expressionist emphasis on individual and subjective perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles0.80text
Kafkainstance ofthe search for an all-inclusive definition is problematic to the extent that the most challenging expressionists0.80text
Gottfried Benninstance ofthe search for an all-inclusive definition is problematic to the extent that the most challenging expressionists0.80text

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