Semiosphere as a symbolic core of the creative originality of artists-expressionists

Some creative portraits of the artists (P. Klee, E. Kirchner and A. Macke, F. Marc, E. Nolde, M. Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rotluf, E. Heckel) were analyzed in the article. The expressionists sought to convey the state of mind of the person in extreme situations of existence, through the “symbolic forms” created by figurative language. The author revealed the originality of semiosphere formed by these masters, found uniting their desire to synthesis of their art, increasing his almost theatrical drama and, in General, the full strengthening effects of the “roll-call” of various art forms in the works of artists of the German-speaking world. The author substantiated the idea of the fundamental role played in the process of creating semiosphere as a new level of cultural development in the twentieth century.