Rural landscape German Expressionism
Christian Arnold was a German painter and graphic artist. He is best known for his landscape paintings that often depicted the rural and coastal regions of northern Germany.
Arnold studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bremen. His work was heavily influenced by the German Expressionist movement, and he often used bold colors and thick brushstrokes to create a sense of emotional intensity in his paintings.
In addition to his landscapes, Arnold also produced numerous portraits, still lifes, and religious works. He worked in a variety of mediums, including oil paints, watercolors, and printmaking.
Arnold's work was exhibited widely during his lifetime, and he received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the arts. Today, his paintings are held in collections around the world, including the National Gallery in Berlin and the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Norbert Hochsider was a German painter and graphic artist. His artistic style was influenced by the German Expressionist movement that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. Expressionism was characterised by an emphasis on subjective emotion, distorted forms and intense colours. Artists associated with this movement sought to convey their inner feelings and the psychological impact of the modern world.
Norbert Hochsider explored a wide range of subjects in his paintings, including landscapes, figures and still lifes. He has used bold brushes, vibrant colours and dynamic compositions to express his emotional response to the subject matter. His works often reflect intensity, energy and raw emotion.
Lisel Oppel, actually Anna Amalie Elisabeth Oppel, was a German painter and ceramist who remains to this day one of the most memorable members of the Worpswede artist colony. From 1917 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Richard Riemerschmid and Hermann Gröber.
Liesel Oppel painted simple paintings with great joy and colourfulness; mainly portraits, people at work and on holidays, less often pure landscapes. One of Oppel's special pictorial themes was children's pastimes in the countryside, in which she adopted and extended the motifs of the early Worpswede artists. Most of her work was created in the 1950s. She continued her expressive painting style.
Walter Tanck was a German landscape painter, engraver and woodcarver. He studied painting with Franz Nölken in Hamburg.
In 1937, as part of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign, his graphic portfolio "Don Quixote" (15 etchings and a lithograph on the title page) from the Dusseldorf Art Collection and his panel "Nude Woman" were confiscated and destroyed.
Carl Emil Uphoff (German: Carl Emil Uphoff) was a German painter and writer who worked in the artists' colony of Worpswede. He first studied at the Folkwang-Kreis under Christian Rolfs and then on study trips to Belgium, Holland and France. In Paris he was promoted by Henri Matisse.
Karl Emil Uphoff was a member of the NSDAP and the Nazi community Kraft durch Freude.
Erich Wegner was a German artist. His work was heavily influenced by the expressionist movement, and he often depicted scenes of daily life in a bold and expressive style.
Wegner's paintings were characterized by their thick brushstrokes and vibrant colors, which conveyed a sense of energy and movement. He often painted urban scenes, such as street scenes and cityscapes, and also produced numerous portraits and still-life compositions.
During the Nazi regime in Germany, Wegner's work was deemed "degenerate" and he was forbidden to exhibit his art. Despite this, he continued to work in secret and later resumed exhibiting his work after the war.
Today, Wegner's work is held in collections around the world, including the National Gallery in Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Conrad Westpfahl was a German painter. He was associated with the Expressionist movement in Germany, and his paintings often depicted the landscapes and people of rural Bavaria.
Westpfahl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and later became a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Würzburg. He was a member of the Berlin Secession, an association of artists who broke away from the traditional academic art world in the early 20th century.
Westpfahl's style was characterized by bold colors, thick brushstrokes, and a sense of emotional intensity. Later he moved on to more abstract painting.
Today, Westpfahl's paintings are held in collections around the world, including the National Gallery in Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.