Die Brücke & Der Blaue Reiter
1905–1925German Expressionism in painting — raw, urgent, anti-academic. Color as scream. Kirchner's Berlin streets, Kokoschka's psychological portraits.
Crude, aggressive brushwork. Anti-naturalistic color. Woodcut aesthetics applied to painting. Influenced by African and Oceanic art.
2 artists12 colors
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880–1938German
Leader of Die Brücke. Painted the frenetic energy of Berlin's streets with angular, clashing colors.
Deliberately crude technique. Acid colors clashing violently. Woodcut-derived angular forms in paint.
Oskar Kokoschka
1886–1980Austrian
Painter of psychological X-rays. His portraits expose the inner life — nervous, alive, anxious.
Thin, scratchy paint revealing canvas. Restless line work. Late landscapes become more colorful and fluid.