Franz and Maria Marc, left, Heinrich Campedonk (second from right), Kandinsky seated, 1911
franz marc, blue horse, 1911
To Ed Schmid, the Expressionists were not photographers but people overcome by visions, concerned with catching not the "momentary effect of a situation" but "its eternal significance."
Don't try to describe us. We're concerned with the force of experience. Expressionist creation is a constant aura of
never-ending excitement (From Bernard S. Myers's German Expresionists: A Generation in Revolt).
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| Poster by Max Pechstein |
* blue is the color of spirituality (Kandinsky),
* the connection between music and the arts,
* they are into European medieval art and primitivism,
* the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France: Cubism, Fauvism, and Rayonism,
* an inclination towards abstraction.
Aleksey von Jawlensky, early 1900s