EXPRESSIONISM

Jezrael Olosan
Christian Jarlowe Gasmea
Rae Wendy Tolentino

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting,

originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to
present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for
emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a
response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant
relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and
spirituality. In part a reaction against Impressionism and academic art,
Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late
nineteenth-century art.

Kathe Schimidt-Kollwitz
A painter printmaker and a sculptor
At the age of 12 begins lessons in drawing and copying plasters
16 began drawings on working peoples, the sailors and the peasants.
17 early engaged to Karl Kollwitz who is a medical student.
21 studied at Munich Womens Art School. Their she realized that her strength was
not a painter but a draughtsman( draftsman a person draw plans and sketches or
architect)
23 married to karl
77 death by a syndrome called alice in wonderland syndrome or Lilliputian
syndrome. (a condition that is often caused by migraines and brain tumors).

Edvard Munch
(12 December 1863 23 January 1944) was
a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of
psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19thcentury Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th
century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893

NOTABLE WORKS
THE SCREAM:
The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of
a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist
Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of
Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an
agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur
Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our
time.

THE SICK CHILD

The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det syke barn) is the title given to six paintings and a
number of lithographs, drypoints and etchings completed by the Norwegian
artist Edvard Munch (18631944), between 1885 and 1926. All record a moment
before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie (18621877) from tuberculosis at
15.

PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER

Paula Modersohn-Becker was born in Dresden on February 8, 1876. In 1892 she

received her first drawing lessons during a seven-month stay with one of her
father's sisters in England. Upon her parent's request, Modersohn-Becker attended a
class for female teacher's from 1883 to 1885. At the same time the Bremen artist
Bernhardt Wiegant taught her drawing and painting.
In 1895 the "Kunsthalle Bremen" exhibited works by artists from Worpswede for the
first time. In 1896 Paula Modersohn-Becker attended a course by the "Verein der
Berliner Knstlerinnen", which was followed by a one-and-a half-year
apprenticeship. At first she focused on drawing lessons with portrait and nude
studies, later she entered Jeanne Bauck's painting class.

Some of her works are student stuff, and to a lot of it still clings the brown earth of
Worpswede, particularly the heavy studies of peasants and mothers suckling
infants. A few etchings and several finished drawings, mainly of nudes - children
and adults - attest to her solidity as a draftsman.