Modersohn-Becker’s Self-Portrait with Camellia (1907) and Ludwig Meidner’s My Night Visage (1913) are the extremes of Expressionist self-portraiture. To my mind’s eye, the portrait of the madman wins ...

The word painting can be used as a verb (a doing or action word), e.g. The artist was painting her self-portrait ... was hanging in a gallery. So, expressionism is painting to show how you ...

a member of the Expressionist group Die Brücke, who died of tuberculosis at age 32, in 1929. Gramatté’s drypoint with watercolor “The Great Anxiety (Self-Portrait in Three-Quarter Profile to ...