ABSTRACT
The author of the only monograph on Estonian expressionism, Ene Lamp, characterizes her book as a collection of “short discourses” 1 and stresses in her introduction the absence of a grand narrative of expressionism in Estonia. Expressionist trends in Estonian art, which developed under the influence of German expressionism during the period 1910 to 1925, did not form a modernist movement with a distinct program, but rather comprised a number of individual artistic approaches seeking an expressive form for depicting human emotional experiences and social tensions.
