Henning von Gierke (German, born 1947)

 

Oil on canvas

Henning von Gierke is a German painter known for his abstract and semi-abstract works. He was born in 1947 in Berlin, Germany and studied art at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Von Gierke has exhibited his work widely in Germany and internationally, and his work is held in numerous public and private collections. His paintings are known for their bold, expressive brushwork and their bright, vibrant colors, and he often incorporates elements of collage and mixed media into his work. In addition to his painting practice, von Gierke has also worked as a teacher and an art critic.

Otto Piene

 

 Soon Again, 1993

gouache and traces of fire on cardboard, 72.8 x 101.7 cm

Otto Piene (18 April 1928 – 17 July 2014) was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Piene

Sabine Moritz (German, b. 1969)

Cassiopeia lll, 2022

Oil on canvas,150 x 150 cm.

Sabine Moritz (born 1969 in Quedlinburg) is a German painter and graphic designer. She is married to Gerhard Richter.

wiki/Sabine_Moritz

a German painter: Otto Dix

Self-portrait (1913)

Pregnat woman (1919)

Portrait of Sylvia von Harden (1926)

'I must paint you! I simply must! … You are representative of an entire epoch!'

She walked in one direction and he in the other. Dix stopped in his tracks. "I must paint you, I simply must! You represent an entire epoch." She was amused. "You want to paint my lacklustre eyes, my ornate ears, my long nose, my thin lips. You want to paint my short legs, my big feet - things that can only frighten people and delight no one?" To Dix, her depiction was perfect. The portrait would represent a generation concerned not with the outward beauty of a woman but her psychological condition.

Portrait of the Singer Elisabeth Stüntzner (1932)

Portrait of Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann (1922)

Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann was a clinical psychologist and a specialist in nervous systems. His sessions often included hypnotic therapy. In this portrait he appears both mad and under the spell of his own hypnotic trance. His eyes bulge and glitter. His fists are clenched and his posture is tense. What demons lurk beneath that morbid exterior? It's as though Dix turned tables on the doctor released them with his own psychological examination.

Green Landscape, 1948 

Oil paints on cardboard Kunstmuseum Singen, Germany

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

credits: http://www.ottodix.org/

Leo Putz (Germany 1869-1940)

Summer Dreams (1907)

Nach dem Bad III - After the Bath III (1914)

oil on canvas 96 × 86 cm

Nude Woman on a Boat

Leo Putz (18 June 1869, Merano, South Tyrol, Austria-Hungary – 21 July 1940, Merano, Kingdom of Italy) was a Tyrolean painter. His work encompasses Art Nouveau, Impressionism and the beginnings of Expressionism. Figures, nudes and landscapes are his predominant subjects.

wiki/Leo_Putz

Surrealism: Max Ernst

The Robing of the Bride, 1940

Ci meurent les cardinaux, 1962

oil on canvas

 Mirage, 1966

Ein Mond ist guter Dinge, 1970

Pierrot

Oiseaux

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst

Klaus Fußmann

Klaus Fußmann (German, b. 1938)

Untitled, 1980
Watercolour on vellum card, 64 x 77 cm.

 Margeriten und Rittersporn, 1985

Gelber, Roter und Rosa Mohn, Gouache 2002

Rapsfelder, 2006

Klaus Fußmann (born March 24, 1938), is a contemporary German painter.
Fußmann was born in Velbert, Germany. He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1974 to 2005, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Fußmann now divides his time living and working between Berlin and Gelting on the Baltic Sea.
His work has won several awards, such as the Villa Romana prize in 1972 and the Art Award of Darmstadt in 1979. Major presentations of his work include exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1972; the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1982; the Kunsthalle Emden, 1988; the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1992; and the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, 2003. For his seventieth birthday in 2008 comprehensive exhibitions were held at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, in the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg, and at the Mannheim Arts League.
In 2005 Fußmann completed a monumental ceiling painting in the Mirror Hall of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fu%C3%9Fmann

German Expressionism: Walter Ophey

 Walter Ophey (1882-1930)

Pollarded willows at the lower Rhine

Düsseldorf Dorf mit Bäumen (1920) oil on canvas  65.3 x 70.7 cm

Beim Brandts Jupp, 1894

Walter Ophey - Heidelandschaft (c1905)

Der blaue Eimer

Flusslandschaft mit Schiffen und roter Sonne

Walter Ophey, born at Eupen on 25 March 1882, was, with August Macke, Heinrich Nauen et al, a herald and leading exponent of "Rhineland Expressionism". In 1900 Walter Ophey began studying at the Düsseldorfer Art Academy and, from November 1904, he was in the landscape class taught by Eugen Dücker. 
In 1908 the Düsseldorf painters Julius Bretz, Max Clarenbach, August Deusser, Wilhelm Schmurr and Walter Ophey formed a group called "Sonderbund", which would evolve into the most important German organisation mounting exhibitions of contemporary art. 
In parallel with the growing recognition accorded both Neo-Impressionist and Fauvist work, Ophey developed his own variant of "Rhineland Expressionism". A journey to Italy in early spring 1910 and a stay in Paris in autumn 1911 provided Walter Ophey with essential stimuli. Paris had such an impact on Ophey that it plunged him into a crisis and, forced him to deal with Cubism. The upshot was a redirection of Walter Ophey's work towards a more vibrant palette. Ophey began to develop a distinctively personal form of expression focused on linear drawings in coloured chalks.
After the first world war ended, Walter Ophey discernibly ordered his compositions more stringently and reverted to a more reticent palette, both departures that represented developments. In 1919 Walter Ophey was a driving force behind the foundation of the "Das Junge Rheinland" group, where he was on the jury judging the merits of works.
That same year Ophey was designated a member extraordinary of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1922 Ophey played a paramount role in organising the "First International Art Exhibition" in Düsseldorf, at which he showed seven works. During the later half of the 1920s, Walter Ophey worked on the fresco "Der Sämann" ["The Sower"] for the Düsseldorf Planetarium, which was removed and destroyed by the National Socialists in 1937.
Walter Ophey died in Düsseldorf on 11 January 1930.

from http://www.walter-ophey.com/

Lovis Corinth, a German artist

View from the Studio Window

 Sleeping Girl, 1899

Akt

Inn Vallery Landscape (1910), oil on canvas

Storm at Capo d’Ampeglio, 1912

Zinnias (Zinnien)  1924

Innocentia

Rosa Wolken, Walchensee

Walchensee Landscape

Walchensee mit Lärche

Flieder Im Glaskrug (Lilac In A Glass Jug)

Walchensee

Lake Lucerne, Afternoon

Klopstockstraße, Frühling, 1924

Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German painter and printmaker whose mature work realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.

source: wikipedia

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, 1789–1869)

Noli Me Tangere, c. 1818

Italia und Germania (1815-1828), Oil on canvas, Neue Pinakothek.

Italia und Germania was initially a response to Franz Pforr’s 1810 diptych Sulamith und Maria. Shulamit, a Jewish woman named in verse 7 of Solomon’s Song, rests her head against Mary, the symbol of Christian motherhood. Overbeck wrote: ”Italia and Germania…confront each other with a foreign presence…my mission is now to melt them into one. It is on one hand a tribute to the homeland and on the other, a charm of everything beautiful and lordly…”

more on wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Overbeck

Max Slevogt, a German Impressionist painter

Max Slevogt (German, 1868-1932)

Dachau Moor, 1894, huile sur carton

Self-Portrait, 1894

Female Nude from the Back, 1905

Sailboats on the Alster River in the Evening, 1905

 

 Autumn Forest, 1906

Landscape at Godramstein - Clouds Passing, 1910

 Spring in the Palatinate, 1910

 Heide und Bäume 1910

The Country House in Godramstein (West Side), 1911

 Garden Steps in Neukastel, 1916

Grape Harvest at Neukastel - 1916

Landschaftsskizze bei Neukastel, 1920

Sunny corner of a garden (1921)


BAUMGRUPPE, NEUKASTEL, 1921


  Early Autumn in the Palatinate - Vineyards near Neukastel , 1927

The Artist’s Children in the Garden

Max Slevogt (October 8, 1868 – September 20, 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.
Source: wikipedia, for Max Slevogt's pictures, see also http://impressionistsgallery