swap_horiz Karel Appel Alternatives

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Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter central to the De Stijl movement. He created abstract paintings characteri...

20TH Century Grid Dutch Geometric

9.5 Brilliant

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss born artist associated with Germany, notable for playful abstraction, teaching at the Bauhaus from...

Germany Switzerland 20TH Century Abstract

9.0 Excellent

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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for raw, contorted portraits and self-portraits made before...

Austrian Early 20TH Century Raw Figurative

8.7 Great

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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet was a French painter who coined Art Brut in 1945, valuing raw visual invention outside academic and museum...

French 20TH Century Raw Art Brut

8.7 Great

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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann was a German painter, notable for crowded triptychs and figurative works responding to Weimar Germany, exil...

German Social 20TH Century Figurative

8.6 Great

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Chaïm Soutine

Chaim Soutine was a Belarusian-born painter of the School of Paris, born in 1893, known for turbulent Expressionist port...

20TH Century Figurative Expressionism Gestural

8.4 Great

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter, notable as a founder of Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905 and for...

German 20TH Century Urban Expressionism

8.3 Great

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Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch painter and theorist, born in 1883, who founded De Stijl in 1917 and promoted geometric ab...

20TH Century Abstract Dutch Geometric

8.3 Great

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for psychologically charged portraits and the 1914 painti...

Austrian 20TH Century Portrait Figurative

8.2 Great

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Franz Marc

Franz Marc was a German painter, notable as a cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter in 1911 and for symbolic animal paintings su...

German 20TH Century Animals Expressionism

8.2 Great

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach is a German-born British painter, born in Berlin in 1931, known for thickly worked portraits and Camden T...

20TH Century British Impasto Figurative

8.1 Great

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Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter from Schleswig, notable for intense color, religious subjects, and members...

German 20TH Century Religious Expressionism

8.0 Great

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Asger Jorn

Asger Jorn was a Danish painter and CoBrA co-founder in 1948, known for gestural, fantastical figures and later Situatio...

Danish 20TH Century Cobra Expressionism

8.0 Great

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Georges Rouault

Georges Rouault was a French painter, notable for dark outlined figures, clowns, and religious scenes shaped by his trai...

French 20TH Century Dark Religious

7.8 Good

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August Macke

August Macke was a German Expressionist painter, notable for bright, simplified street and shop scenes and his role in D...

German 20TH Century Expressionism Colorist

7.7 Good

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Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley was an American modernist painter linked to Alfred Stieglitz's circle, known for bold forms and German O...

American 20TH Century Landscape Modernism

7.7 Good

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Leon Kossoff

Leon Kossoff was a British painter, born in London in 1926, known for heavily impastoed portraits and city scenes of pos...

20TH Century Urban British Figurative

7.7 Good

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Pierre Alechinsky

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian painter and printmaker linked to CoBrA, known for calligraphic lines and marginal image p...

20TH Century Belgian Cobra Expressionism

7.6 Good

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Bart van der Leck

Bart van der Leck was a Dutch painter and De Stijl cofounder, known for reducing figures and scenes into flat colors and...

20TH Century Abstract Dutch Geometric

7.5 Good

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Constant Nieuwenhuys

Constant Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch artist and CoBrA co-founder, later known for New Babylon, a visionary urban project beg...

20TH Century Abstract Dutch Cobra

7.4 Good