GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM FEATURED ARTISTS
Featured Artists
The artists featured on this page include many of the most important figures associated with the various facets of the Expressionist movement, from pioneers such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Vasily Kandinsky to post-Expressionists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, as well as others who created significant works. Many other Expressionist artists—both well known and now obscure—are also represented in MoMA's collection; their names and works can be accessed through the link at the end of the list at the right.
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Ernst Barlach
Sculptor, printmaker, dramatist. Famed for his sculptures of religious and mystical… More »
Max Beckmann
Painter, printmaker. Known for probing the human condition in portraits, self-portraits… More »
Heinrich Campendonk
Painter, printmaker, stained-glass designer. First gained prominence within the Blaue Reiter… More »
Lovis Corinth
Painter, printmaker, draftsman. After eleven years of academic training in Königsberg… More »
Otto Dix
Painter, printmaker, watercolorist. Known especially for his caustic portraits of postwar… More »
Lyonel Feininger
American painter, printmaker, draftsman, photographer, who lived in Germany from 1887… More »
Rudi Feld
Graphic designer, set designer. After serving in the army during World War I, studied… More »
Conrad Felixmüller
Printmaker, painter. The youngest of a second generation of Expressionists who… More »
Heinz Fuchs
Painter, printmaker. Studied in Berlin from 1905 to 1910, including two years as a master… More »
George Grosz
Painter, draftsman, printmaker known for pointed political satire and social criticism… More »
Erich Heckel
Painter, printmaker. One of four architecture students in Dresden who formed the Brücke… More »
Vasily Kandinsky
Painter, printmaker, watercolorist, pioneering theorist of abstraction. Abandoning an academic… More »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Painter, printmaker, sculptor. One month before earning his architecture degree… More »
Paul Klee
Painter, draftsman, printmaker, theoretician. Raised in Bern, then studied art in Munich… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
Painter, printmaker, dramatist. Performance of his early Expressionist play… More »
Georg Kolbe
Sculptor, printmaker, draftsman. Known for idealized nudes, whose poses and gestures… More »
Käthe Kollwitz
Printmaker, draftsman, sculptor. Trained initially as a painter, but by 1890 turned to… More »
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Sculptor, draftsman, printmaker. Known for his sculptures of slender, elongated figures… More »
August Macke
Painter, watercolorist, and decorative artist. After befriending Franz Marc and Vasily… More »
Jeanne Mammen
Watercolorist, painter, printmaker. Raised in Paris. Studied art in Paris, Brussels… More »
Franz Marc
Painter, watercolorist, printmaker. Gave up studying theology and philosophy… More »
Ludwig Meidner
Painter, printmaker, writer. Gained renown after 1912 for street scenes celebrating… More »
Otto Mueller
Painter, printmaker. Apprenticed as a lithographer; in 1894 moved to Dresden to study… More »
Emil Nolde
Painter, printmaker, watercolorist. First trained as a woodcarver; later studied painting… More »
Max Oppenheimer (MOPP)
Painter, printmaker. Studied painting in Vienna and Prague from 1900 to 1906. Included in 1908… More »
Max Pechstein
Painter, printmaker. After studying in Dresden, joined Brücke group in 1906 at invitation of… More »
Christian Rohlfs
Painter, printmaker. Took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from… More »
Egon Schiele
Painter and precociously talented draftsman; accepted into Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts… More »
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Painter, printmaker. One of four architecture students, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner… More »
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