Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at 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....
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1863
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1944 (age 80 years)
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (UK /ˌvæn ˈɡɒx/, US /ˌvæn ˈɡoʊ/; Dutch: [vɑŋ ˈɣɔχ] ( listen); 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1853
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1890 (age 37 years)
Georges Rouault
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.
Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother encouraged his love for the arts, and in 1885...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1871
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 1958 (age 86 years)
Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. Artists and writers associated with German Expressionism shared a rebellious attitude ...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1877
Date of death:
- May 19, 1962 (age 85 years)
Max Pechstein
Hermann Max Pechstein (December 31, 1881 – June 29, 1955) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of the Die Brücke group.
Max Pechstein was born in Zwickau. His father was a craftsman who worked in a textile mill. Early...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1881
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1955 (age 73 years)
Gen Paul
Gen Paul (July 2, 1895 – April 30, 1975), was a French painter and engraver.
Born as Eugène Paul in a house in Montmartre on the Rue Lepic painted by Van Gogh, he began drawing and painting as a child. His father died when he was only ten years old...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1895
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1975 (age 79 years)
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1867
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1945 (age 77 years)
Mário Eloy
Mário Eloy (Algés, 15 March 1900 – Lisboa, 5 September 1951) was a Portuguese expressionist painter.
Eloy was born in Lisboa. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1900
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1951 (age 51 years)
Kai Fjell
Kai Breder Fjell (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈkaɪ ˈfjɛl], March 2, 1907–January 10, 1989) was a Norwegian painter, printmaker and scenographer.
Fjell was born on a farm in the village Skoger near Drammen, Norway. His father was the farmer and painter...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1907
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1989 (age 81 years)
Floris Jespers
Floris Jespers (1889–1965) was a Belgian Avant-garde painter.
After his graduation from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, he hooked up with the poet Paul Van Ostaijen and joined the Antwerp avant-garde movement of the 1920s. He contributed to the...
Date of birth:
- 1889
Date of death:
- 1965 (age 76 years)
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (commonly called H.N. Werkman; 29 April 1882 – 10 April 1945) was a Dutch artist, typographer and printer.
Werkman was born in Leens, in the Dutch province of Groningen. In 1908, he established a printing and publishing...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1882
Date of death:
- Apr 10, 1945 (age 62 years)
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (English pronunciation: /ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL; Russian: Марк Заха́рович Шага́л; (7 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1887
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1985 (age 97 years)
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn, second child to the Kokoschkas. His older brother died...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1886
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1980 (age 94 years)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Wilhelm Lehmbruck (January 4, 1881 – March 25, 1919) was a German sculptor.
Born in Duisburg, he was the fourth of eight children born to the miner Wilhelm Lehmbruck and his wife Margaretha. He was able to study sculpture arts at the School of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1881
Date of death:
- Mar 25, 1919 (age 38 years)
Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) 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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1870
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1938 (age 68 years)
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1867
Date of death:
- Apr 13, 1956 (age 88 years)
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky English pronunciation: /kænˈdɪnski/ (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, Russian pronunciation: [vaˈsʲilʲɪj kɐnˈdʲinskʲɪj]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944)...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1866
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1944 (age 78 years)
Rolf Nesch
Rolf (Emil Rudolf) Nesch (January 7, 1893 - October 27, 1975) was an expressionist artist, especially noted for his printmaking. Born in Germany, he moved to Norway following the Nazi takeover in 1933.
Nesch was born in Esslingen am Neckar, and...
Date of birth:
- Jan 7, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 27, 1975 (age 82 years)
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1880
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 1916 (age 36 years)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-leh; June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is...
Date of birth:
- Jun 12, 1890
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1918 (age 28 years)
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901, Borgonovo, Stampa – 11 January 1966, Chur) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1901
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1966 (age 64 years)
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist.
Lyonel Feininger was born to German-American violinist and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1871
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1956 (age 84 years)
Chaim Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (January 13, 1893 – August 9, 1943) was a Jewish painter from Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris.
Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1893
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1943 (age 50 years)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (German pronunciation: [ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1879
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1940 (age 60 years)
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was a figurative painter who has been described as both Irish and British, known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstracted figures typically appear isolated in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1909
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1992 (age 82 years)
Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1922
Date of death:
- Jul 20, 2011 (age 88 years)
Emily Carr
Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a modernist and post-impressionist painting style...
Date of birth:
- Dec 13, 1871
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1945 (age 73 years)
Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1885
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1941 (age 56 years)
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 27 May 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliche Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1888
Date of death:
- May 27, 1967 (age 78 years)
Marcel Janco
Marcel Janco (German: [maɐ̯ˈsɛl ˈjaŋko], French: [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ko], common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu pronounced [marˈt͡ʃel ˈherman ˈjaŋku], last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu; May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984) was a Romanian...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1895
Date of death:
- Apr 21, 1984 (age 88 years)
James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Flemish-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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1860
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1949 (age 89 years)
August Macke
August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1887
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 1914 (age 27 years)
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism.
Kubin was born in Bohemia in the town of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1877
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1959 (age 82 years)
Camilo Mori
Camilo Mori Serrano (September 24, 1896 in Valparaíso, Chile – December 7, 1973 in Santiago, Chile) was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.
The son of an Italian immigrant, Camilo Mori entered the "Escuela de Bellas Artes" (School of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1896
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 1973 (age 77 years)
Cuno Amiet
Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.
Amiet was born in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1868
Date of death:
- Jul 7, 1961 (age 93 years)
Helene Schjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck (July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. 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...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1862
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1946 (age 83 years)
Prudence Heward
Prudence Heward (July 2, 1896 – March 19, 1947) was a Canadian painter.
Born Efa Prudence Heward in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a well-to-do family, she was educated at private schools. At a young age, she showed an interest in art and, encouraged...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1896
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 1947 (age 50 years)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art....
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1880
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1938 (age 58 years)
Zhang Daqian
Chang Dai-chien (simplified Chinese: 张大千; traditional Chinese: 張大千; pinyin: Zhāng Dàqiān; Wade–Giles: Chang Ta-chien) (May 10, 1899 – April 2, 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1899
Date of death:
- Apr 2, 1983 (age 83 years)
Nicolae Tonitza
Nicolae Tonitza (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e toˈnit͡sa]; April 13, 1886 – February 27, 1940) was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-impressionism and Expressionism, he had a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1886
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1940 (age 53 years)
Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L'homme Témoin [the Witness-Man]".
Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1928
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1999 (age 71 years)
Albert Tucker
Albert Lee Tucker (29 December 1914 – 23 October 1999), a pivotal Australian artist, was a member of the Heide Circle, a group of leading modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide",...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1914
Date of death:
- Oct 23, 1999 (age 84 years)
Ang Kiukok
Ang Kiukok (Chinese: 洪救國, March 1, 1931- May 9, 2005) was a leading Filipino painter and a National Artist for Visual Arts.
He was born in Davao City, Philippines to Chinese-Filipino parents who had emigrated from Fukien. He pursued Art Studies at...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1931
Date of death:
- May 9, 2005 (age 74 years)
Mikhail Evstafiev
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Evstafiev (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Евста́фьев; born in 1963), is a Russian artist, photographer, and writer.
His interest in painting and photography began at an early age. His mother, grandmother and great grandfather...
Date of birth:
- 1963 (age 49 years)
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈtivɒdɒr ˈkostkɒ ˈt͡ʃontvaːri]; born 1853 - d. 1919) was a Hungarian painter. He was one of the first Hungarian painters to become well known in Europe.
Csontváry was born on 5 July 1853 in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 5, 1853
Date of death:
- Jun 20, 1919 (age 66 years)
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
Elfriede Lohse Wächtler (December 4, 1899 in Dresden - July 31, 1940 in Pirna) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was killed in a former...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1899
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1940 (age 40 years)
Leon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, who was a perfumer, and Léonie (née Jonckheere). From...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1881
Date of death:
- 1946 (age 64 years)
Isaac Grünewald
Isaac Grünewald (2 September 1889 - 22 May 1946) was a Swedish-Jewish expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946, in other words...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1889
Date of death:
- May 22, 1946 (age 56 years)
Lasar Segall
The artist Lasar Segall (July 21, 1891 – August 2, 1957) was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism. His most significant themes were depictions...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1891
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1957 (age 66 years)
Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Надежда Петровић) (Čačak, Principality of Serbia, 1873 — Valjevo, Kingdom of Serbia, 1915) is considered the most important Serbian female painter from the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also known as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 12, 1873
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1915 (age 41 years)
Alice Baber
Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.
Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1928
Date of death:
- Oct 2, 1982 (age 54 years)
Miguel de la Espriella
Miguel de la Espriella (born November 14, 1947), more commonly known by his artistic name, Noble, is a self-taught painter and sculptor from Sucre, Colombia, whose art has been presented widely within his country and throughout the world.
Noble's...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1947 (age 64 years)
Marianne von Werefkin
Marianne von Werefkin (Russian Мариамна/Марианна Владимировна Веревкина) (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia – 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1860
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1938 (age 77 years)
Iosif Iser
Iosif Iser (21 May 1881 — 25 April 1958; born and died in Bucharest) was a Romanian painter and graphic artist.
Born to a Jewish family, he was initially inspired by Expressionism, creating drawings with thick, unmodulated, lines and steep angles....
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1881
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1958 (age 76 years)
Lyn Ott
Lynfield George Ott (April 25, 1926 – April 22, 1998), better known as Lyn Ott, was an American painter and a follower of Meher Baba.
Ott was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1926 to Irene and Lester Ott (vice president of W. T. Grant). Ott was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1926
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1998 (age 72 years)
Kārlis Padegs
Kārlis Padegs (1911–1940) is one of Latvia's most popular artists. He studied under noted Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvitis at the Latvia Art Academy. Padegs' style was original and shocking - using themes which were very iconoclastic at the time....
Date of birth:
- 1911
Date of death:
- 1940 (age 29 years)
Willem Hofhuizen
Willem Hofhuizen (° 27 July 1915 – † 23 December 1986) was a Dutch Expressionist painter.
Wilhelmus Johannes Maria (Willem) Hofhuizen was born in Amsterdam on 27 July 1915 but a few years later his parents moved to Roermond, where Willem spent his...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1915
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1986 (age 71 years)
Alma Woodsey Thomas
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African American Expressionist painter and art educator. She lived and worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Post described her as a force in the Washington Color...
Date of birth:
- Sep 22, 1891
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1978 (age 86 years)
Ion Ţuculescu
Ion Ţuculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon t͡sukuˈlesku]; 19 May 1910 – 27 July 1962) was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1910
Date of death:
- Jul 27, 1962 (age 52 years)
Abraham Rattner
Abraham Rattner (July 8, 1893 – February 14, 1978) was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often with religious subject matter. During World War I, he served in France with the U.S. Army as a camouflage artist.
Rattner...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1893
Date of death:
- Feb 14, 1978 (age 84 years)
