Expressionism

1. EXPRESSIONISM

2. EXPRESSIONALISM (1910 -1924)
• It started during a political crisis preceding World War
I.
• It was a movement where distort a building for an
emotional effect
• Started from painting & poetry
• Distortion of Form for an emotional effect
• Affection towards gothic arch.
• Total work of Art – active participation of people
• Art & People must form a entity
• Novel materials
• Unusual massing

3. EXPRESSIONALISM (1910 -1924)
• Limited number of built structures – economic
crisis
• Nazi outlawed – Degenerate art
• Free the form of the whole buildings
• Form of a building to evoke emotions
• Sense of movement; Curved roof

4. Bruno Taut
(1880 – 1938)

5. GLASS PAVILION,
Cologne, Germany
(1914)

11. Erich Mendelsohn
(1887 – 1953)

12. EINSTEIN TOWER,
Potsdam, Germany
(1921)

22. Hans Polzig
(1869 – 1936)

23. GREAT THEATER
(Grosses_Schauspiel),
Berlin, Germany (1919)