The Austrian painter, and writer, Oskar Kokoschka, is celebrated for his dark, emotionally turbulent figurative paintings and intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
One of the leading exponents of Expressionism, Kokoschka was born on March 1, 1886, in Pochlarn, a small town on the Danube, 100 kilometers west of Vienna.
Jean-Paul Riopelle, was widely regarded as Canada's most important modern artist, whose Abstract Expressionist style was often compared to that of American artist Jackson Pollock.
One of the first Canadian artists to gain major international recognition, Riopelle was born on October 7, 1923, in Montreal, Quebec.
Depicting the moving figures to express the fullness and vitality of human body and using the flat areas of unbroken and unmixed colors and simplified forms, the German painter and printmaker, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is celebrated as one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artist known as “Die Brücke” (The Bridge).
Famous for his highly personal style imbued with psychological tension and eroticism, the Expressionist painter was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria.