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Expressionist architecture was individualistic and in many ways eschewed aesthetic dogma, [6] but it is still useful to develop some criteria which defines it. Though containing a great variety and differentiation, many points can be found as recurring in works of Expressionist architecture, and are evident in some degree in each of its works:
The term Brick Expressionism (German: Backsteinexpressionismus) describes a specific variant of Expressionist architecture that uses bricks, tiles or clinker bricks as the main visible building material. Buildings in the style were erected mostly in the 1920s, primarily in Germany and the Netherlands, [1] where the style was created.
Opened in 1927, the museum now counts as one of the key works of expressionist architecture in Germany. The collection features works covering the artist's entire career, from the early pictures of her training years in Berlin to the paintings she created in Paris in 1906-07, in which she most fully realised her artistic vision. In 1935 local ...
Erich Mendelsohn (German pronunciation: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈmɛndl̩ˌzoːn] ⓘ); 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) [1] was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.
Die Brücke (The Bridge), also known as Künstlergruppe Brücke or KG Brücke, was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. The founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Later members were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Otto Mueller.
The view from Frankfurt Cathedral, showing the diversity of German architecture. Landmarks include the reconstructed Gothic Römer city hall and old town, the Neoclassical Paulskirche and the Modernist and Postmodernist skyscrapers of the Frankfurt skyline. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The architecture of Germany has a long
The structure was made at the time when expressionism was most fashionable in Germany, and it is sometimes referred to as an expressionist-style building. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The only known photographs of the building were made in 1914, but these black-and-white images are only marginal representations of the actualities of the work. [ 1 ]
Scheerbart certainly influenced Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition — the first, last, and only design of German Expressionist glass architecture that was actually constructed. Taut inscribed the fourteen sides of the structure with fourteen quotations from Scheerbart's works.