Expressionist artists created a potent method of social critique in their gestural depictions and use of bright colors as a result of their interaction and conflicts with the city life of the early 20th century.
Contrary to the Impressionists, who only strove to mimic nature, German Expressionist artists frequently manipulated color, dimension, and space to portray their personal thoughts about what they observed.
The fierce German religious artist Matthias Grunewald was maybe the first creator of German Expressionism paintings. Vincent Van Gogh exerted a significant effect on early Expressionists 350 years later.
Die Brücke art, inspired by primitive art such as that of Paul Gauguin, presented radical societal viewpoints using contemporary urbanscapes, landscapes, and figure paintings.
The Expressionist movement Der Blaue Reiter was founded in Munich, the center of the Neue Kunstler Vereiningung avant-garde movement. Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky were two of its most prominent artists.
Die Neue Sachlichkeit, a German Expressionism art group that was part of the 1920s postwar Realism style, was named after the show Neue Sachlichkeit, which was held in Mannheim in 1923.