Expressionism Art History Posters & Prints, N...-Z...-
for history of art and social studies classrooms.

Emil Nolde, née Hansen
b. 8-7-1867; village of Nolde, Duchy of Schleswig (now southern Denmark)
d. 5-15-1956; Paris

Painter and printmaker Emil Nolde was one of the first Expressionist and exhibited with Die Brücke, the Berlin Secession and Der Blaue Reiter. He was in support of the Nazis, then found his work labeled “degenerate” and he was forbidden to paint after 1941. During the war years he worked in watercolors which he was able to hide.

Emil Nolde quote ~
• “There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every color holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colors are colors, tones tones ... and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”

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Max Pechstein
b. 12-31-1881; Zwickau, Germany
d. 6-29-1955

Painter and printmaker Max Pechstein was a member of the Die Brücke group. He was placed in the Degenerate Art exhibit of the Nazis and forced into seclusion during WWII.

Pechstein was reinstated to his teaching position in 1945.

Georges Rouault
b. 5-27-1871; Paris, France
d. 2-13-1958; Paris

Painter and printmaker Georges Rouault is categorized as both a Fauvist and Expressionist artist. His mature painting style of heavy dark contour lines and glowing colors is reminiscent stained glass, the influence of an early apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer. Rouault is also noted for the extent that his Christian faith inspired his work.

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Egon Schiele
b. 6-12-1890; Tulin, Austria
d. 10-31-1918; Spanish Flu

Egon Schiele, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, was an early exponent of Expressionism. Schiele painted many self portraits and figures with twisted and contorted body shapes that were considered grotesque and disturbing.

FYI ~ Schiele suffered from dystonia, a neurological movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
b. 12-1-1884; Rottluff, Germany
d. 8-10-1976; Berlin

Painter and printmaker Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a founding member of Die Brücke. The Nazi's seized his work in 1937, calling it degenerate; after WWII, in 1947 he was appointed a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

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