The postimpressionist revolution in late 19th-century painting eventually brought the opposite of figurative representation, namely, Expressionism. If representation was no longer the main goal of art, the expression of one’s inner spiritual self offered itself as an alternative. In the first decade of the 20th century, this direction was taken primarily by Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture 804 German artists, most successfully by the two movements Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke. Painters such as Wassily Kandinsky and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner used art to express the soul and their emotional reactions to the modern era. Their paintings introduced a cryptic, abbreviated style to art. The origin of a design in the creator’s self and a drawing technique that was not concerned with exact figural representation were among the main impulses for Expressionist architecture. Centered primarily in Germany and the Netherlands, Expressionist architects, just like their mainstream Internationa...