Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Expressionist Figurative Drawing, "Striped Torso"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionist figurative drawing by Southern California artist, Lenore Simon. It is framed as pictured. Its framed dimensions are 10"x10"x1.5". A cer...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Fabric
Body in the Field #15 - Contemporary, Red, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #15, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
German American Expressionist Abstract Sailboat
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Watercolor, Chalk
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: not able to determine" x not able to determine"
Dimensions w/Frame: 25 1/4...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Carousel humorous dreamlike narrative story expressive human condition greys
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel and charcoal on toned archival toned paper signed and dated bottom left . On view at the table Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn NY.
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Melon Scope, " Original Pastel Drawing signed by Della Wells
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Melon Scope" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This work depicts a black woman carrying a large slice of watermelon, which stands for a stereotype of African Americans. Two serpent-like large leaves flank her, each with a single eye, which signify, according to the artist the all-seeing eye of God...
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
تهران
Located in London, GB
2018
Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated upper left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 95 x 70 x 3 cm
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Man and Dionysus Heimrad Prem German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Art Brut
By Heimrad Prem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: Austria
Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 26 3/4" Heimrad Prem (1934 – 1978) was a German painter born in Roding, Oberpfalz. From 1949–1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf and then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich until 1956. While studying painting with Ernst Emil Schumacher at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, he formed Gruppe SPUR with Lothar Fischer, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer. After meeting Asger Jorn, SPUR joined the Situationist International. He was influenced by the Cobra artists Karel Appel and Otmar Alt.
In 1960 he won a scholarship of the Kulturpreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Cologne. From 1960–1962 he co-edited the magazine SPUR. In 1961 he visited Oerkelljunga, Sweden with Sturm, Zimmer and Dieter Kunzelmann staying with Jørgen Nash...
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Figurative Painting, "Alone"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionist figurative drawing by Southern California artist, Lenore Simon. It is framed as pictured. Its framed dimensions are 26.45" x 30.6". A c...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Charcoal
Energy Saving Nudes multiple female Nude figures humorous overtones soft colors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned on toned
Archival heavyweight paper.signed and dated on.bottom. part on an ongoing series by the artist Nudes With Attitude .
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Body in the Field #13 - 21st Century, Red, Orange, Green, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #13, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed and dated on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his work...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Canvas
Body in the Field #10 - Contemporary, Red, Yellow, Green, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #10, 2022
coloured pencil on canvas
9.84 H x 6.29 W in.
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Me and Myselves
Located in London, GB
2018
Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 95 x 70 x 3 cm
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Banana Weapon of Mass Destruction
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel on paper.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Dog and Pinga
Located in New York, NY
Wax pastel drawing on paper.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon
Positano House Terrace & Sea, 2000s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pair of Framed Mixed Media Nudes by Byron Randall
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pair of nude figure drawings done with a mix of pastels, and gouache. Signed and dated 1963.
Born in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 23, 1918. Randall was in Salem, OR during the 1930s. He create...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Paper
Lusitano #1, monochromatic horse black and white, dramatic
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on fine printmaking paper made with oil based etching inks and oil paint. One of a recent series of horse images reflecting my interest in the mo...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype, Archival Paper
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Young lady holding a cat
Located in Beijing, CN
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was born in 1975 in Changchun, Jilin. She earned her B.F.A at Jilin University of Arts in 1999, and studied at Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: etching, watercolor paint
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.. there does not seem to be an edition size although there is a handwritten number lower left
sheet measures 12.5 x 19.88. plate size about 9 x 13.5
Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin Jules...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Cão
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel on paper cutout.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Reclining Young Man - Pencil Drawing - German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER 1880-1938 (German)
Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Davos
Title: Reclining Young Man Liegender junger Mann, circa 1911
Technique: Pencil Drawing on Firm Wove Paper ...
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1910s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Power Couple romantic couple subject soft warm pastel color blue gray tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Portrait of a couple with much history between them. Mounted on archival foam board for future framing options
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Attention, please!
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 37.3 x 28.7 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Sleepwalking 18, monochromatic dream like figures
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Portrait of a woman, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Fireworks Lights in Sky Blue Diptych, Handmade Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Fireworks Lights" is a minimal cyanotype diptych that shows path of the fireworks over the sky.
Details:
+ Title: Firew...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Dye Transfer, L...
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Morning Has Broken, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Early morning on a winter's day at Marsh View Meadow Park in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. :: Drawing :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentici...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Fleeting Ghosts
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on foam board
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-refle...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Racing Horses
By Pierre Gaillardot
Located in London, GB
'The Racing Horses', gouache on art paper (circa 1970s), by Pierre Gaillardot. France has produced some of the world’s greatest horses and riders, wi...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist Bi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Frosch Serenade - Drawing by L. von Hoffmann - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Frosch Serenade is an original drawing in watercolour and pencil on paper, realized by Ludwig Von Hofmann .
Framed.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents a nude woman-bu...
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1910s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series Bath NO.5
Located in Beijing, CN
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was born in 1975 in Changchun, Jilin. She earned her B.F.A at Jilin University of Arts in 1999, and studied at Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual paper is 7.5 X 5.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Jewish Family
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Jewish Family" 1968 is an acrylic and ink on wove paper by noted Lithuanian artist Boris Deutsch, 1892-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left corner by the...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Cloudy Sunset, Coney Island, wildly colorful abstract sky, water, beach
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says:
When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherm...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel Israeli Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a great Judaica Israel landscape. The Old City of Jerusalem during the British Mandate in Palestine.
24.5 x 31 image 16 x 22.5
Isidor Ascheim (איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox, Judaic, Jewish family and served during World War I. In 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the German Expressionist Otto Mueller in Breslau and was influenced by Erich Heckel of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1940 and settled in Jerusalem. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.
He taught at the Bezalel School of Art (amongst his students were David Palombo, David Rakia, Aharon Bezalel, Kopel Gurwin and more) and served as its director for several years. He also taught at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv along with Moshe Mokadi. Marcel Janco and Aaron Giladi. Ascheim's art is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots. He was a contemporary of Jacob Steinhardt, Mordecai Ardon, Josef Budko and Hermann Struck.
Awards and recognition
In 1953, Ascheim was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.
In 1955, he received the Jerusalem Prize for Art.
In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale, Italy
Selected collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
References
Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints [Izidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim] . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
Talpir, Gabriel. "100 Artists in Israel". Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin, Germany (in what is now Poland) in 1891. His father was a prosperous merchant. In spite of his family’s devoutness, Ascheim had both religious training at home and an education in a German school. In 1903 the family moved to Breslau, where he studied in the gymnasium. When War War I broke out, he was drafted into the German army. In 1918, when the war ended, he began studying art in Breslau, and then in Cracow. In 1939 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel under the auspices of the Aliyah Bet program. He was caught by the British government and sent to the Atlit detention camp for about seven months. After he was released he settled in Jerusalem and found employment as a lecturer at the “New Bezalel.” In 1946 he married the painter Margot Lange Ascheim. From 1960-1961 he served as director of the “New Bezalel.”
Most of Ascheim’s work was in the field of prints. In the 1920s he also produced engravings. Later he specialized in stone printing (lithography), including Biblical subjects, landscapes, and expressionist subjects. In addition, he painted.
Education
1919-1923 Art Academy, Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland) with Otto Mueller, an important expressionist painter.
Art studies, Professor Pautsch, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
Teaching
1943 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, was director for some time.
1961-1960 Director, New Bezalel, Jerusalem
Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv1944
Artists: Hermann Struck,Moshe Ziffer...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Small Boat and Bather in Dinard
By Jean Pons
Located in London, GB
'Small Boat and Bather in Dinard', gouache and charcoal on art paper, by French artist, Jean Pons (1961). Painted in a naïve style, the piece dep...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Les Fleurs Maladives
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 111 x 91 x 3 cm
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Singer, from the Wild Woman Series, bright green tones music theme
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bright green tones, figurative, reminiscent of art nouveau
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Hanging Woman, colorful, yoga reference, figure w abstract patterns
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Expressionist Gouache and Watercolour Study for 'Alexander and His Army'
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 20th century watercolour and gouache study for the series 'Alexander and His Army' by Stephane Lovighi-Bourgogne. Presented in plain wood frame.
A strong and forceful de...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Fliegen züchten
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Bald, brown tones, monotype, head and shoulders with numbers, text
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category
1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Gouache Painting Jules Pascin Hand Signed Woman in Boudoir German Expressionism
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Woman
Medium: gouache paint
Surface: Paper board
This is hand signed lower right.
Framed it measures 17.25 X 15.5, sheet 12 X 10
This came from a Jewish estate. there was no additional paperwork or provenance.
Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin Jules...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Gouache
1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Sudden Shower
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Gabriel 1946. SUDDEN SHOWER. / SUNSHINE. WIND AND RAIN’ (lower edge)
5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Gyöngyvér
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.4 x 29.8 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Spurred on by the Crowd
By Garth Bayley
Located in Deddington, GB
Spurred on by the crowd- horse racing painting [2022]
original
Pen and Ink
Image size: H:32 cm x W:24 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:32 cm x W:24 cm x D:32cm
Sold Unframed
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Pompeii Room Nude with cat and pillows subject strong red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on red toned paper signed and dated bottom left. Suitable for framing under glass
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Painting the Town Red urban narrative warm southwestern color female figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Surrealistic expressionist with humorous undertones
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Neugestorben
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.5 x 29.8 x 3.5 cm
This work includes a ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Zirkusdirektor und Bajazzos
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 54.1 x 42 2.5 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
FRIENDS
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original hand painting, markers on paper
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Nothing to be done
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 54.1 x 42 x 2.5 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Abstract Expressionist Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Watercolor painting of standing prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Quay by the Bridge in Paris
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
'Quay by the Bridge in Paris', watercolour on art paper, by Roland Dubuc (circa 1970s-80s). The broad Parisian river Seine divides the city into the left and right banks. The Left Bank, or Rive Gauche is famous for the Latin Quarter while the Right Bank is better known for attractions like Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre, and the Louvre. A trip here simply isn’t complete without a stroll along this romantic river. And a cruise on the Seine or drinks aboard an anchored boat along the quay is a wonderful experience as well. The artist Dubuc created many artworks with the Seine as backdrop. You can have this one right in your living room. In good overall condition, the piece is newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. Upon request a video of the painting may be provided.
About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tower of Glamour. Still life bright colors hats sunglasses and mirror subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper suitable for framing.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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