Selma Lagerof - The First Woman to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Expressionism was a modernist movement that originated in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists express the meaning of emotional experience rather than its physical reality . The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. Some notable expressionist painters were Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, James Ensor. Writers who also joined the mov3ment were Friedrich Nietzsche, August Stri...View all