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German and Central European Expressionists

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Adalbert Erdeli

Adalbert Erdeli (Адальберт Ерделі; 1891–1955) was a Transcarpathian painter and teacher, born in Zahattia and a founder of the Transcarpathian school of painting, influenced by Cézanne's impressionism.

Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian-born Expressionist painter active in Germany, where he co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in 1909 and joined Der Blaue Reiter.

Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen, was a German-Danish painter and printmaker among the leading German Expressionists, known for religious pictures, seascapes, and flower watercolors.

Gabriele Münter

Gabriele Münter was a German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter who worked in Murnau and donated major Blue Rider works to Munich's Lenbachhaus in 1957.

George Grosz

George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German-born painter and caricaturist of Berlin Dada and New Objectivity, known for satirizing Weimar militarism and bourgeois society.

Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer was a German-born artist associated with Surrealism, famous for constructing and photographing life-sized, anatomically reconfigurable female dolls published in Minotaure in 1934.

Marianne von Werefkin

Marianne von Werefkin (Марианна Верёвкина, 1860–1938) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist who co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in 1909 and took part in Der Blaue Reiter exhibitions.

Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter known for figurative, narrative works like the triptych Departure, who fled Nazi Germany and died in New York.

Milena Pavlović-Barili

Milena Pavlović-Barili (Милена Павловић Барили, 1909–1945) was a Serbian painter, illustrator, and poet who worked in Belgrade, Paris, and New York, known for dreamlike paintings blending reality and imagination.

Otto Dix

Otto Dix, full name Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, was a German painter and printmaker known for unsparing depictions of war and a leading New Objectivity figure.