Word: expressionistic
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Young Max Pechstein was one of the leaders in Germany's expressionist movement before World War I. His canvases, which sometimes reminded critics of a lesser Gauguin, were daring in their day, made Pechstein a reputation. But when Hitler came in, Pechstein's "decadent" work went out. He painted on the sly in Berlin, finally went off to live on the Baltic coast...
...topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's latest neoclassical horses, nudes and knights in armor...
Just one topflight modern painter has devoted his art to the service of religion. Georges Rouault, 80, is both a fervent Roman Catholic and a brilliant expressionist. "My only ambition," he once said, "is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted...
...expressionist," Max Beckmann painted only what he felt. Generally, he expressed the feeling that life is hot, dark, strange and rough. "I, too," he used to say, nodding his cliff like head, "am rough...
...Expressionist Karl Hofer, 73, is dean of Berlin painters, head of a free West Berlin art school. His Houses is as good as anything in the show, and gloomier than all the rest. Its figures, half flesh and half masonry, seem to be waiting rigid in the dark for an inevitable bomb. Hofer knows what bombs can do. Forbidden by the Nazis to exhibit his work, he kept on painting in Berlin when war came, saw his studio and some 300 pictures destroyed in an air raid. After the war, he set about painting the same pictures over again. Human...