Expressionism

Expressionist art puts the artist’s feelings and inner life before a true likeness, with unnatural color, bent forms and free brushwork. The word comes from German artists of the early 1900s, but the style spread across Europe, to Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka in Austria, among others. Its works here hang in four rooms, beside the groups they grew among. Look for color and line pushed past what the eye sees: a face drawn in jagged strokes, a street of sharp angles, a mountain in deep blue. Expressionism was a wide current across Europe rather than one group, strongest from about 1905 to 1920. In Austria its two major figures were Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka; in Germany it reached from Die Brücke and the Blue Rider to printmakers such as Käthe Kollwitz. Connected places: Vienna · Berlin · Murnau.

• Portrait of Herbert RainerEgon Schiele, 1910
• Self-PortraitEgon Schiele, 1912
• DancerEgon Schiele, 1913
• Portrait of Arthur RoesslerEgon Schiele, 1914
• Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka Jr.)Egon Schiele, 1916
• Mountain StreamEgon Schiele, 1917
• Seated Woman, Back ViewEgon Schiele, 1917
• Dr. Ernst WagnerEgon Schiele, 1918
• Five Women on the StreetErnst Ludwig Kirchner, 1914
• MurnauAlexej von Jawlensky, 1910
• UntitledVasily Kandinsky, September 1, 1916
• Sharpening the ScytheKäthe Kollwitz, 1905
• Peasants' War: Arming in a VaultKäthe Kollwitz, 1906
• Self-Portrait with Hand on ForeheadKäthe Kollwitz, 1910
• Self-PortraitKäthe Kollwitz, 1915
• Help RussiaKäthe Kollwitz, 1921
• BreadKäthe Kollwitz, 1924
• Germany's Children are Hungry!Käthe Kollwitz, 1924
• Proletariat: No. 1 Out of WorkKäthe Kollwitz, 1925