worldpaintings:

Johannes Itten

Vorfrühling (Early Spring), 1966, oil on canvas, private collection.

Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist. His works exploring the use and composition of colour resemble the square optical art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.

Itten’s work on colour is also said to be an inspiration for seasonal colour analysis - the process of determining the colours that best suit an individual’s natural colouring. Itten had been the first to associate colour palettes with four types of people, and had designated those types with the names of seasons. Shortly after his death his designations gained popularity in the cosmetics industry. Today cosmetologists continue to use seasonal colour analysis, a tribute to the early work by Itten.

bofransson:

August Macke, Street with church in Kandern, 1911 

bofransson:

August Macke, Landscape on the Teggernsee with a reading man, 1910 

bofransson:

August Macke, Portrait of the artist’s wife with a hat, 1909 

August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him.

zitterberg:

Lovis Corinth, Self Portrait with Skeleton (1896)

Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German painter and printmaker whose mature work realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group’s president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth’s subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.

lasmokecachelamerde:

Lovis Corinth, The Freemason’s

asolitarycomfort:

Lovis Corinth “Pink Roses”

sacredimages:

Lovis Corinth - Paradise

paperimages:

Lovis Corinth (German, 1858-1925) - Innocentia - 1890

Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German painter and printmaker whose mature work realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group’s president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth’s subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.

chasingtailfeathers:

Lovis Corinth, Portrait of a Woman in a Purple Hat, 1912