Leo Gestel — Figure Sketch | Dutch Expressionist Print

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Leo Gestel — Figure Sketch | Dutch Expressionist PrintLeo Gestel (18811941) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist who moved through Post Impressionism, Cubism, and Expressionism to develop a personal modernist style of bold graphic energy. A leading figure in Dutch early modernism, he produced paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, and drawings of horses, figures, and landscapes with an assertive line and a vigorous handling of mass that places him in the tradition of the great Dutch draughtsmen. His figure

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The Bauhaus (1919–1933) was the most influential design school of the 20th century

" Beyond commercial posters

the sacred skyline of Jerusalem at dusk — are among the most evocative Orientalist landscapes ever painted

and the modernist imagination of Weimar Germany

His landscape paintings — Italian gardens

and psychological depth

Edgar Degas

These prints bring that tradition into the home at museum-grade quality

Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter and one of the most theoretically rigorous and playfully inventive artists of the 20th century

chose to live among the people he painted — settling permanently in the Algerian oasis town of Bou Saâda

and the classical tradition to create images of transcendent spiritual drama