Georges Rouault

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Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.

 

 

(zhôrzh r-´) (KEY) , 1871–1958, French expressionist artist. First apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, Rouault studied after 1891 under Gustave Moreau. He exhibited several paintings with the fauves in 1905. His sorrowful and bitter delineations of judges, clowns, and prostitutes caused a great stir in Paris. The suffering of Jesus was his frequent subject. His thickly encrusted, powerfully colored images, outlined heavily in black, have the effect of icons and a pattern suggestive of stained glass. About 1916, Rouault began more than a decade of work for the publisher Vollard. Using a variety of graphic techniques, he executed a series of about 60 prints called Miserere. He continued to paint the themes he had used earlier, but in a more tranquil style. Rouault’s works are unequaled in the religious art of our time. Examples of his art can be found in many European and American collections. The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, owns his Three Judges and Christ Mocked by Soldiers.

 

Dyrness, William A. Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1971

 

This is my (joels) favorite painter.    Especially through William Dyrness' book 'Rouault:a vision of Suffering and Salvation' did I see a beautiful synthesis of faith and art without cheapening one or the other.

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Max Beckmann

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Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is usually classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. [1] In the 1920s he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.

 

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Käthe Kollwitz

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Käthe Kollwitz
Statue of Kollwitz in East Berlin
Birth name	Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz
Born	July 8, 1867 Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia
Died	April 22, 1945 Moritzburg
Nationality	German
Movement	Expressionism
Influenced by	Max Klinger
Influenced	Nicolae Tonitza

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.^[1] Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities.^[2]

 

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Hans Hofmann

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Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.

 

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Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker who is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he rejected not only the label but even being an abstract painter.