Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Died 1941.
Painter, draughtsman. Figure compositions. Murals.
Allazio de Abacco spent some time in Rome. Influenced by German Expressionism in 1910, he was very active in Hungary between the wars producing murals for public spaces to publicise social schemes.
British-Pakistani, 20th century, female.
Born 1917, in London, England; died 1994, in Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan.
Painter.
Modern Expressionism.
Anna Molka, born in London of Polish and Russian-Jewish parents, studied at St. Martin’s School of Art in London and then at the Royal College of Art (RCA). During this period she converted from Judaism to Islam and married Sheikh Ahmed, then an Indian student at the RCA. They moved to India permanently in 1939, settling eventually in Lahore, where she was appointed the head of the newly founded, female-only Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Punjab. Known mainly for her painting, she taught diverse media and techniques at the school, including sculpture, printing, and pottery. She is remembered as a formidable, mercurial figure who kept the department alive from its modest beginnings through the bitter internal politics that characterized the department in the 1970s and 1980s.
When she was a young painter, Anna Molka’s approach was informed by the Post-Impressionist French artist Paul Gauguin, but as her art matured, she pursued an increasingly expressionistic style. Her figurative work is characterized by a thick, gestural application of paint and bold, unblended strokes of colour from a broad palette, while her subject matter is mainly realist and academic in theme, with a focus on portraits, self-portraits, and village scenes and pastoral views of rural Punjab....
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 28 March 1868, in Solothurn; died 1961, in Oschwand (Bern).
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, engraver, lithographer, sculptor. Figure compositions, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
Die Brücke group. School of Pont-Aven.
Cuno Amiet began his artistic training under Frank Buchser in Feldbrunnen from 1884 to 1886. From 1886 to 1888 he trained at the academy of fine art in Munich. From 1888 to 1891 he trained under the guidance of William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris. Up to that point he had been influenced by Impressionism, which was still very much in evidence. Then in 1892, he went to Pont-Aven and made contact with O'Connor, Émile Bernard, Sérusier and Armand Seguin. They introduced him to the ideas and techniques suggested by Gauguin to those who would soon be classed as the École de Pont-Aven. They would also call themselves 'Nabis'....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1907, in Raymond (Washington); died 1994.
Painter.
Darrel Austin set himself the task of rendering the dramas and conflicts of the human condition, via an Expressionist vision, between the two world wars.
New York, 11 Nov 1959: Lady of the Night...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1936.
Painter.
Edward Avedesian painting has evolved over the years from abstract expressionism, minimalism and pop-abstraction, through colour field painting in the 1970s, and then to a form of bold figuration. He has exhibited his work in New York and Los Angeles, notably at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York in ...
Croat, 20th century, male.
Born 1890, in Jastrebarsko.
Painter, art critic.
Ljubo Babic studied in Zagreb, Munich and Paris. His painting evolved from the 1920s Yugoslavian Neo-Realism to a style of Expressionism depicting simplified forms in vivid colours. He was also known as an art critic....
Swedish, 20th century, male.
Born 1911, in Halmstad; died 1981.
Painter, sculptor.
Neo-Constructivism.
Olle Baertling settled in Stockholm in 1928 and started painting in 1938. At the beginning of his career he was an Expressionist, but then began to paint portraits under the influence of Matisse. He subsequently studied under André Lothe and Léger in Paris in ...
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Eindhoven.
Painter, watercolourist. Scenes with figures.
Bakel was self-taught. He was interested in Flemish expressionists and organized exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Eindhoven. In 1946, he spent some time in Paris and he spent further periods at Pont-Aven (in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1886, in Lyons; died 1926.
Painter, pastellist. Landscapes, flowers.
Lyons School.
Adrien Bas participated in the Salon d'Automne in Paris, notably in 1919 and 1920. His landscapes have rather an Expressionist feel, particularly when executed in pastel. This is achieved by emphasising the volumes and planes with the use of luminous colours....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1878.
Painter. Landscapes.
Der Blaue Reiter group.
In around 1911 or 1912, Bechtejeff formed part of the
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1923, in Providence (Rhode Island).
Painter, printmaker. Figures, animals, beasts.
Figurative Expressionism.
Miriam Beerman studied painting with John Frazier at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her BFA in 1945. After RISD, Beerman studied with Japanese-American painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League in New York, and Latvian-American abstract painter Adja Yunkers at the New School for Social Research. Beerman also spent two years in France on a Fulbright Scholarship (1954–1956), where she briefly studied at Atelier 17 in Paris. In the 1960s, Beerman and her husband moved to Brooklyn, New York, and she gave birth to her son Bill. Beerman had a one-woman show in 1971 at the Brooklyn Museum called The Enduring Beast. It was an aptly titled show for an artist whose work deals with human tragedy and who had witnessed the horrors of contemporary post–World War II society. The family lived in Brooklyn for 13 years before moving to Montclair, New Jersey, where she lived, worked, and taught painting for many years. In ...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Painter.
In the course of an adventurous life, Benoit produced a body of work that, despite some Naïve aspects in terms of technique, nevertheless belongs in other respects to the Belgian Expressionist movement.
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1921, in Florence.
Painter.
Vinicio Berti started exhibiting in 1939. He went through a realist stage but went on to work as an abstract expressionist. He showed his work at the 1959 Rome Quadriennale and was awarded the Fiorino Prize in Florence in ...
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 1926, in San Sebastian.
Painter.
Beti took fine art courses in Valencia and Madrid. Between 1942 and 1948 he had an Expressionist period but by 1959 he had turned to Abstract Art. From there he developed into Art Informel, preoccupied with experimenting with new materials. In ...
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Born 23 April 1882, in Pforzheim; died 1961, in Geneva.
Painter. Nudes, landscapes, portraits, still-lifes.
Alexandre Blanchet worked initially in Paris. Although his painting exhibits Expressionist, Fauvist and Cubist influences, it is clear that he was greatly influenced by the work of Cézanne in particular. This is most evident in his paintings of traditional Swiss themes, which are executed in a decidedly Post-Impressionist style. His forceful treatment of volume and space and his accomplished and evocative use of blocks of colour impart a sense of Cézanne-like 'sculpture' to his work. This similarity is intensified by his technique of painting parallel lines in different shades of the same colour, a feature of ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1880; died 1966.
Architect, painter.
Die Brücke group.
Fritz Bleyl was an architecture student at the Dresden technical high school. He met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, together with whom he founded
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 1935, in Amsterdam.
Painter.
Theo Blom was influenced by the CoBrA group; he painted in a resolutely Expressionist style.
Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.)
Rotterdam (Mus. Boijmans Van Beuningen)
Amsterdam, 18 March 1985: Rain in May (1965...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 30 April 1928, in Nancy.
Painter.
Pop Art.
Blum used very violent colours in his works, borrowed from the Expressionist wave and the Pop Art movement, although he did not use their narrative possibilities. In his work, colour matched the corresponding form to become symbolic in 'colour forms'. He participated in the Salon Comparaisons from ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 7 July 1921, in Verona.
Sculptor.
Bogoni exhibited highly abstract Expressionist sculpture at the 1966
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1940.
Painter, sculptor, illustrator.
Peter Booth passed from Abstract-Minimal painting to a violent Expressionism in 1977, at which time he realised his first Figurative painting. His works frequently depict human misfortunes and torments, in chaotic compositions tinged with religious sentiments....
