Best Expressionism

Austrian-American film director known for his seminal science fiction work "Metropolis" (1927) and the gritty crime drama "M" (1931).

Paul Klee was a Swiss born artist associated with Germany, notable for playful abstraction, teaching at the Bauhaus from 1921, and works like Twittering Machine.

Käthe Kollwitz was a German printmaker and sculptor whose 1890s and 1900s cycles depicted workers, war, grief, and social injustice.

Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for raw, contorted portraits and self-portraits made before his death in 1918.

Max Beckmann was a German painter, notable for crowded triptychs and figurative works responding to Weimar Germany, exile, and World War II.

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

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

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

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for psychologically charged portraits and the 1914 painting The Bride of the Wind.

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

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

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter from Schleswig, notable for intense color, religious subjects, and membership in Die Brücke in 1906.

Karel Appel was a Dutch painter and co-founder of CoBrA in 1948, known for bold color, childlike figures, and energetic brushwork.

Lovis Corinth was a German painter and printmaker tied to the Berlin Secession, known for forceful portraits, landscapes, and late self-portraits.

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

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

August Macke was a German Expressionist painter, notable for bright, simplified street and shop scenes and his role in Der Blaue Reiter before 1914.

Marsden Hartley was an American modernist painter linked to Alfred Stieglitz's circle, known for bold forms and German Officer paintings of 1914.

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

Constant Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch artist and CoBrA co-founder, later known for New Babylon, a visionary urban project begun in 1956.