Expressionism in short quotes - described and explained; free resource of German art history

**Expressionism in short quotes - German artists & art movement shortly described and explained + art images ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in German art history

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This selection short text-quotes on Expressionism - a mainly German art-movement - are taken from Dutch art-critic Jacob Bendien. Included is also a separate PDF with images of the art of several Expressionist artists. Bendien was a contemporary artist himself of Expressionism.

German Expressionism started c. 1906 in several artist-groups in Germany: mainly in Die Brücke / Bridge in Berlin and less in Blue Rider / Blaue Reiter in Munich, South Germany. The selection text-quotes here explain the meaning, style, characteristics and history facts of German Expressionism. Important Expressionist painters were Kirchner, Heckel, Pechstein, Nolde, Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Marianne Werefkin, Gabriele Munster, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann. You will find rlevant quotes of them all here.
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Some selected quotes on German Expressionism, by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes, in the PDF:

• The Expressionist is looking for a return to our inner, primitive state, in which we feel subordinate to life as a whole and in which we feel the often, ominous powers at work within ourselves, just as we see this in nature around us.

• Expressionism is direct and spontaneous, with or without any bearing on reality; without the lengthy, careful consideration that characterized New Objectivity, and without artistic painting systems as used in Futurism.

• When an Expressionist paints a sheep being torn up and eaten by a wolf, he does not paint a sheep and a wolf with so many legs, nails, long or short fur; no he paints being torn up or tearing up and devouring… .Just like the sheep, he does not ask himself whether or not the wolf is cruel. Neither is he interested in beauty or ugliness…
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  selection of free art-resources on Expressionism in Germany:

  • an extended description of Expressionism, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
  • for selected artist-quotes on Expressionism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Expressionism
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
    translation from Dutch, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]