Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage, Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art that helped artists express their feelings about all the social change that was ...

Egon Schiele was born on June 12, 1890, to Marie and Adolf Eugen Schiele in Tulln, a small town on the Danube in Lower Austria. Adolf was a high official of the Royal Empirial Railway Company. Of the six children of the marriage, only three survived infancy. Egon grew up alongside his sisters Melani...

Abstract expressionism is a 20th-century painting style that features large-scale works and expression of feelings through slashing and active brush strokes. It exploded in New York, following World War II. The war brought on the victory of abstract and expressionistic art and the creation of the ...