Expressionist Architecture

(noun)

Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.

Examples of Expressionist Architecture in the following topics:

  • European Expressionist Architecture

    • Expressionist architecture was a European movement of the twentieth century that came about in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
    • Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the twentieth century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
    • Expressionist architecture was individualistic and in many ways eschewed aesthetic dogma.
    • Expressionist architecture utilized curved geometries and a recurring form in the movement is the dome.
    • Describe some common stylistic elements found in European Expressionist architecture in the early 20th century.

  • Dutch Rationalist Architecture

    • The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that lasted from 1910 to 1930, with the aim of creating a total architectural experience.
    • The Amsterdam School movement is considered to be part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.
    • The aim was to create a total architectural experience, interior and exterior.
    • With regard to the architectural style, Michel de Klerk had a different vision than Berlage.
    • Indicate the unique aspects of Dutch Rationalism and its architectural elements

  • German Expressionism

    • Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
    • The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including painting, literature, theatre, dance, film, architecture, and music.
    • Expressionist painters had many influences, among them Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and several African artists.
    • Like Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter is considered a major feature of the German Expressionist movement.
    • Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities .

  • Neue Sachlichkeit

    • The New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachlichkeit) is a term used to characterize the attitude of public life in Weimar Germany, as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it.
    • As these artists rejected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism.
    • Expressionism was in particular the dominant form of art in Germany, and it was represented in many different facets of public life—in theater, in painting, in architecture, in poetry, and in literature.
    • In concert with this evocation of angst and unease with bourgeois life, expressionists also echoed some of the same feelings of revolution as did Futurists.
    • Max Beckmann, who is sometimes called an expressionist although he never considered himself part of any movement, was considered to be a verist and the most important artist of Neue Sachlichkeit.

  • Contemporary Indian Art

    • Souza uses an expressionistic style to illustrate both the highs and lows of Indian social life.
    • Contemporary Indian architecture tends to be cosmopolitan, with extremely compact and densely populated cities.
    • Artist Souza uses an expressionistic style to capture aspects of Indian life in his paintings.
    • Discuss the influence of the Progressive Artist's Group, Ray's development of Pseudorealism, and the development of contemporary architecture in India.

  • Die Brücke 

    • Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.
    • The founding members of Die Brücke in 1905 were four Jugendstil architecture students: Fritz Bleyl (1880–1966), Erich Heckel (1883–1970), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976).

  • Neo-Expressionism

    • Neo-Expressionists sought to portray recognizable subjects in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color schemes.
    • Neo-Expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (though sometimes an abstracted version), in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color harmonies.
    • Overtly inspired by so-called German Expressionist painters such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other expressionist artists such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch, Neo-Expressionists were sometimes called Neue Wilden ("The new wild ones'").
    • Baselitz's style is interpreted as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective it is seen as postmodern.
    • Elizabeth Murray is an example of a Neo-Expressionist painter who was marginalized in the movement due to her gender.

  • Categorizing Art

    • Such mediums can include decorative arts, plastic arts, performing arts, sculpture, painting, architecture, music, or literature, to name but a few.
    • For example, any loose brushy, dripped or poured abstract painting is called expressionistic .

  • Painting

    • Milton Avery's paintings, often nearly abstract, had a significant influence on several of the younger artists who would soon become known as Abstract Expressionists.
    • The themes originated from the streamlined architecture and machinery of the early 1900s.

  • Environmental Context of Architecture