Heinrich Nauen (1880-1940) among the District of the "Rhenish Expressionism”, which a group of painters, who collected August Macke (the name was given on a famous exhibition).

The members did not had a common style ,their cohesion was closed to France and the common interested in the local art, such as Heinrich Campendonk, Franz Marc and temporarily even Max Ernst. In 1921 Nauen was Professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy and taught at the side of Otto Dix and Paul Klee. In 1937 his work was condemned by the Nazis as "degenerate". He died three years later.

Nauen spent his happiest and most productive years together with his wife from 1911 to 1931 in the Schloss Dilborn at Bruggen. A deeply situation of life speaks from the works of this period. Castle and Manor Park offering him new motives.

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Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler meaning "to squirt, spray".

Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different coloured or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are light-fast, that is, resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.

The Giclée process is suitable for real art canvas, handmade and watercolor paper and for silk.

Artistic movement that replaced the Impressionism in the early 20th century.

Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphics and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists tried to advance to the basic elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colors in large areas and with the emphasis on line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness they fought against the artistic taste established by bourgeoisie.

The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke, among others.

Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.

The Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.

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