Art - Movements: Expressionism

This art movement surpassed Impressionism/Post Impressionism in 1885/1910, took place alongside Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, and Constructivism between 1905 - 1920 and was eventually succeeded by Pop Art which began in the 1960s. Expressionism evolved into Abstract Expressionism which spanned from the 1940s to the 1950s.

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Kirchner joined the war effort in September of 1914 but was discharged from the first world war month later after having a mental breakdown. These events had a heavy influence on his art thereafter with one example of this being a painting he made in 1915 titled Self-Portrait as a Soldier.

He shot himself in 1938, a year after having his art sold and destroyed by Nazis who deemed his artwork “degenerate”.

THE SCREAM / EDVARD MUNCH - 1893

BLUE HORSES / FRANZ MARC - 1911