Expressionism

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20th-century art movement art movement cultural movement modernist movement

Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.

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Surface form	Occurrences
German Expressionism	31
Expressionist architecture	5
Expressionist painters	3
German Expressionist cinema	3
expressionism	2
Austrian Expressionism	1
Expressionism (Art)	1
Expressionist cinema	1
Expressionist literature	1
Proto-Expressionism	1
Rhenish Expressionism	1

Statements (90)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century art movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ modernist movement ⓘ
coreIdea	expressing inner feelings over depicting external reality accurately ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Germany ⓘ
declinePeriod	after World War I ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	anti-academic stance ⓘ bold brushwork ⓘ distortion of form ⓘ emphasis on emotional experience ⓘ exaggerated color ⓘ inner experience over external reality ⓘ intense psychological content ⓘ rejection of naturalism ⓘ subjective representation of reality ⓘ
hasPart	Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: Abstract Expressionism Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Austrian Expressionism Der Blaue Reiter ⓘ Die Brücke ⓘ Expressionist architecture ⓘ Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Expressionist cinema Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Expressionist literature Neo-Expressionism ⓘ
influenced	Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: Abstract Expressionism Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: German Expressionist cinema Neo-Expressionism ⓘ film noir aesthetics ⓘ graphic novels and comics ⓘ
influencedBy	Edvard Munch ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ James Ensor ⓘ Post-Impressionism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ Vincent van Gogh ⓘ industrialization ⓘ psychology of Sigmund Freud ⓘ social anxiety before World War I ⓘ urbanization ⓘ
language	primarily German ⓘ
movementIn	architecture ⓘ film ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ
notableProponent	August Macke ⓘ Egon Schiele ⓘ Emil Nolde ⓘ Erich Heckel ⓘ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ⓘ Franz Marc ⓘ Gabriele Münter ⓘ George Grosz ⓘ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ⓘ Lyonel Feininger ⓘ Max Beckmann ⓘ Oskar Kokoschka ⓘ Otto Dix ⓘ Paul Klee ⓘ Wassily Kandinsky ⓘ
notableWork	Blue Horse I ⓘ Self-Portrait with Physalis ⓘ Street, Berlin ⓘ Blue Horse I ⓘ surface form: The Large Blue Horses The Night ⓘ The Scream ⓘ
opposedTo	Impressionism ⓘ Naturalism ⓘ Realism ⓘ
peakPeriod	circa 1905–1920 ⓘ
persecutedAs	degenerate art ⓘ
politicalContext	Weimar Republic ⓘ rise of Nazism ⓘ
relatedMovement	Cubism ⓘ Dada ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ
revival	Neo-Expressionism in the late 20th century ⓘ
startTime	early 20th century ⓘ
typicalSubject	existential anxiety ⓘ inner turmoil ⓘ religious themes ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ war and violence ⓘ
typicalTechnique	angular forms ⓘ impasto ⓘ non-naturalistic color ⓘ simplified shapes ⓘ

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Die Brücke → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Edvard Munch → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Egon Schiele → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Emil Nolde → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Erich Heckel → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Erich Mendelsohn → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Franz Marc → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Fritz Lang → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Gabriele Münter → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

George Grosz → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

James Ensor → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Expressionism

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Kees van Dongen → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Lado Gudiashvili → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Lyonel Feininger → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Max Beckmann → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Oskar Kokoschka → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Otto Dix → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Paul Klee → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Street, Berlin → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

The Night → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

The Scream → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Wassily Kandinsky → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Wassily Kandinsky paintings → movement → Expressionism ⓘ

Self-Portrait with Physalis → movementAssociatedWithCreator → Expressionism ⓘ

Weimar Republic → notableCulturalMovement → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Abstract art → relatedTo → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: expressionism

Neue Galerie New York → specializesIn → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Expressionism

Blue Horse I → style → Expressionism ⓘ

Sydney Opera House → style → Expressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture

Arnold Schoenberg → stylePeriod → Expressionism ⓘ