CHAPTER 9: Expressionism

 

Well well , finally that gift from my brother in law from last Christmas, will find some useful meaning in my research.

(quoted from p. 15)

"The Brucke Group of Artists

 On 7 June 1905, four students of architecture at Dresden formed a group of artists called Die Brucke ( The Bridge). They were Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and  Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

They were young artists aged between 21 and 25 who expressed conflict of artists from that generation.

In 1906, Kirchner had made a wood cut of the text - the stylized motif of a bridge: "We believe in development and in a generation of young people who are both creative and appreciative; we call together all young people, and- as young people who bear the future- we want to acquire freedom for our hands and lives, against the well-established older forces. Everyone belongs to us who renders in an immediate and unfalsified  way everything that compels him to be creative."

What was so special and characteristic for that movement?

• deformation
• very bright colours
• spontaneity so close to primitive art

art was the only way to express emotion

 Fritz Bleyl 1880-1966 

 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938

 

 Sitting Woman, 1907                                               Marzella (1909–10)

Erich Heckel 1883-1970

 Erich Heckel painting at the easel

Red Huses 1908

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1883-1976

Duble Portrait S. and L. 1925

Dyke Breach 1910

The most famous names are Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch.

Edvard Munch 1863-1944

The scream 1893

The dance of life 1899-1900

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890

Starry night



self-portrait 1889

In polish art the biggest and the most important artist was Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ( Witkacy). I was very lucky to have opportunity to see his paintings many times in my home town of Lodz in Poland. His work is display in Muzeum Sztuki which is the museum of modern polish art.
You may go on this address :

 http://msl.org.pl/en/sztuka/index/id,1787 

http://msl.org.pl/en/index

http://www.krakowpost.com/article/1181

Witkacy 1885-1939

Rabanie lasu.Walka 1921 -1922



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