2. Born in 1880 in Munich
Died in March,1916 in Verdun,France
(1st World War)
3. Who was he?
He was a German painter & printmarker during
the Expressionism
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts
(Munich)
1907 First wife Marie Schnür (Marriage ended
in 1908)
1911 Marriage with Maria Frank in London
He liked to draw animals ( the animals are signs
for the purity/ cleanness)
4. The Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist
movement, in poetry and painting,
originating in Germany at the beginning
of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to
present the world only from a subjective
perspective, in order to evoke moods or
ideas.
Expressionist artists tried to express
emotional experience rather than
physical reality.
5. The „Blaue Reiter“ (Blue Rider)
Organisation
Founded in 1916 by German
expressionist painters and Russian
immigrants
tried to express the spiritual side of man
and nature, which they felt had been
neglected by impressionism.
6. His Notable works
Fate of the Animals
Tiger
The Yellow Cow
Fighting Forms
The Large Blue Horse
