This website is dedicated to the Museum's rich collection of German Expressionist art. Defining Expressionism in broad terms, this collection comprises approximately 3,200 works, including some …

Many other Expressionist artists—both well known and now obscure—are also represented in MoMA's collection; their names and works can be accessed through the link at the end of the list at the right. …

In 1937 the Nazi regime's campaign against modern art takes a new radical turn, as it prepares for its exhibition Degenerate Art by confiscating works of art declared "degenerate" from German state …

As Expressionism evolved from just after the turn of the century through the early 1920s, a number of crucial themes and genres came prominently to the fore, many of which reflect deeply humanistic …

Directness, frankness, and a desire to startle the viewer characterize Expressionism in its various branches and permutations, the most significant of which are profiled here.

Its leading members were Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and the name Brücke (“bridge”) reflects these artists’ youthful eagerness to cross into a new …

In 1905, painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, along with Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff —all untrained in the visual arts—founded the artists’ group Die Brücke, or “The …

Many other Expressionist artists—both well known and now obscure—are also represented in MoMA's collection; their names and works can be accessed through the link at the end of the list at the right. …

Although the Expressionists rejected the moribund, state-sanctioned stylistic conventions and subjects that dominated German visual culture at the turn of the 20th century, they did take inspiration from …

Expressionists looked outside mainstream European society for inspiration, from far-flung tribal societies in Africa and the South Pacific to the peasantry and folk art traditions closer to home.