Art Movement: German Expressionism

German Expressionism happened somewhen between 1900 and 1930, but during the 1920s in Berlin is where it really peaked. The artists in this movement were influenced by artists like Van Gogh and Edvard Munch.

Work created by German Expressionists had a strong use of colour, but where very distoreded and unrealistic, they were also pretty primative in the way that they looked. The unrealisticness to their work was because the artist painted based on what they were feeling about what was going on around them and what they saw.

There were a couple of things that would have infulenced the artist's work, for example the country was in an economic crisis, as well as the industrial revolution was happening then which meant a lot was changing around these people, the literal landscape was being changed, but what was most likely the bigest influence was the First World War, as this left many of the artists permantly scarred and this was show n through there art and the movement became a kind of bitter protest about what was going on around the artist.

Here is a list of some well known artists in this movement:

• Max Beckmann
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Emile Nolde
• George Grosz
• Erich Heckle
• Otto Dix
• Karl Schmidt-Rotluff
• Franz Marc

MY PERSONAL RESPONSE

This is a piece that I created as a personal respode to German Expressionism, it is an image of Chichester Cathedral , and by using pastels I gave it a less real look.