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Printmaking Techniques. Although most Expressionists are best known as painters or sculptors, a confluence of aesthetic, social, political, and commercial forces encouraged nearly all of them to embrace printmaking as an equally important means of expression. Printmaking—including woodcut, intaglio, and lithography—helped the Expressionists ...
In his many prints and portfolios, he elaborated themes of death, love, and fantasy. A figure of awe-inspiring prestige around the turn of the 20th century, Klinger sparked the fine-art print revival in Germany and was enormously influential on Expressionist printmaking.
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. [1] [2] Expressionist artists have sought ...
Featured Artists. The artists featured on this page include many of the most important figures associated with the various facets of the Expressionist movement, from pioneers such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Vasily Kandinsky to post-Expressionists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, as well as others who created significant works.
Otto Dix. German artist Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix is best known for paintings and prints filled with anguished, exploited human figures representing the turmoil of his time. He lived during the most tumultuous period of modern German history, from World War I through World War II and the division of Germany after its defeat.
Käthe Kollwitz. German, 1867–1945. Starr Figura, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Printmaker, draftsman, sculptor. Trained initially as a painter, but by 1890 turned to printmaking as means for social criticism. Married to a physician to proletarian families in Berlin, felt deep admiration ...
Drawn from the extraordinary collection of German Expressionist prints in the Gift of David and Eva Bradford at the Portland Museum of Art, this exhibition surveys the visually stunning portraits made by German artists during this time of unrest.
