De Stijl!! What style of art do you favor and why?

Before the group of the 'Blaue Reiter' became famous, it was "Die Brücke' (The Bridge), an expressionist art movement.

Due to the 100th anniversary of the Die Brücke, there's are or have been some exhibitions recently all over the country.
(During the Lippstadt meeting, we visited one in Münster [Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde etc].)

There are a couple of Blaue Reiter paintings in this museum as well - I'm always impressed by the famous, legendary wall painting "Paradise", painted by both Marc and Macke, origianally in their studio/apartment in Bonn.

Nudes in the Open...Karl Rottluff... Forgot entire name---will fix soon.

Anyhoo, a member of Der Blaue Reiter group.

Osso and Walter have piqued my interest. I think this may develop into one of my favorite periods/styles. These were brilliant people.


The "Masters" were incredibly gifted and very representational--but this use of color and expressionism.... eez gut.

What was going on socially and politically in the 20's in Germany? I don't know much about that period.

Schmidt-Rottluff was a member of 'Die Brücke', not 'Blaue Reiter'.



Both, Die Brücke and the Blaue Reiter group were founded long before the 20's (several of the main members actually died in WW1).

Is your question realted to art or just asked generally?
(In the 20's, there was the Weimar Republic. the first democracy in Germany. And the social situation was quite similar to elswhere in Europe.)

After WW1, "Die Neue Sachlichkeit" (e.g. paintings by Otto Dix and George Grosz) showed the disillusionment following the war.

Well, I had my dates wrong. There is often some social or political event or backdrop, which gives life to a new art movement--or at least that's what I think presently.

I was curious about the catalyst for the two groups we've been discussing.

But, you're correct. I just read a narrative about the timeline of the groups. It started closer to 1905...

Do you think social and political factors give birth to artistic movements?

I don't know ....


source: Britannica

Thanks for your information, Walter. Feel free to drop off additional stuff anytime...impressions or facts or art.

Die Brücke - Brücke museum

Blaue Reiter (by Tate)

Oh yes. Very good historical narrative with clickable links to art. Great link.

I like this. Dr Rosa Shapira by Schmidt-Rottluff

Christian Rohlfs, Emil Nolde, Hans Kaiser, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and especially the expressionist Willhelm Morgner had worked in our county town Soest.

Such, Schnidt-Rottluff's 'Soest Cathedral' (original in Münster museum) impresses me most :wink:

Lovely! The vivid colors! And, it is an actual place? Still standing?

My favorite painter is John Singer Sargent. Part old master, part impressionist, really unclassifiable.

Sargent is the reason I became a portrait photographer.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Roman Catholic cathedral (in reality just a parish church), founded in the 10th century by Bruno, brother of Otto the Great (the present building was erected in the 12th century). Said to be with its very original facade one of the noblest ecclesiastical monuments of Germany.

A few links of works by painters in my old calendar... though not the exact paintings -

Alexei Javlensky
Wassily Kandinsky
another Kandinsky
Gabriele Munter

I think Macke and Marc were in there too..


Hmmm, Lash, you might check out the Fauves ..

This weekend, there was an auction in Berlin, with the highest ever results in Germany (for the Beckmann):



Emil Nolde "Philister", 1.5 million Euros



Ludwig Kirchner, "Halbakt mit erhobenen Armen", 2.1 million Euros




Max Beckmann , "Anni (Mädchen mit Fächer)", 3.9 million Euros

Another Nolde -
http://www.nolde-stiftung.de/englisch.htm

Not to skip over Boomer's mention of Sargent, who is also one of my favorite painters, though not so much to my "gut" as some others.

and veering from the Blaue Reiter path a bit - I'll post this one while I am thinking about it, Turner's Music Party:

http://www.bestpriceart.com/painting/?image=turner22.jpg&tc=cgfa

I had scanned a photo of this a year or two ago and posted that on Vivien's ten favorite paintings thread, but I lost track of the scan (I had put it on an intermediate site, and then deleted that, apparently not saving it to my own files.) That image was - to my memory - somewhat lighter. JLNobody may remember it, as I think he also liked the painting at the time.

Here's another coloration -
has anyone seen the original painting?

also, this link can be followed, I think, to several clickable thumbnail photos of other Turner paintings.. including one I'd forgotten, Interior at Petworth.

http://www.artprints-on-demand.co.uk/noframes/turner/music_party.htm



edit to add a piece about Petworth. with remarks about Turner and the painting -
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/activities/culture/story/0,7447,709574,00.html

When you want to see painters/pictures in a timeline, a rather good site with a really good selection of art and artists is CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum.






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I guess if I had to name the "school" or "style" that gets me in the gut I would have to say it is what is collectively known as "Byzantine Icons".

They were really created over a period of almost a thousand years and most of the early ones were destroyed in the Iconoclastic Controvery, which itself lasted nearly a hundred years.

I've always been fascinated by these icons. Not only are they extraordinarily beautiful they are such a reflection of such a particular place at such a particular time. They really merge European and Asian art styles. Christian imagery has not yet become completely caucasian. And pageantry has yet to take over. The images are so simple and eloquent that they speak even to me, a non-Christian.


The archangle Michael


Madonna and child


The Prophet Elijah