Trending Art Movements in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Bauhaus. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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296,735
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
20,173
views
views
2
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
17,303
views
views
3
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
15,523
views
views
4
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
10,008
views
views
5
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
9,238
views
views
6
Jugendstil
artistic movement; German equivalent of art nouveau
8,169
views
views
7
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
7,805
views
views
8
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
7,068
views
views
9
Biedermeier
Era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848
6,932
views
views
10
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
6,722
views
views
11
Expressionism
modernist art movement
6,697
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views
12
Romanesque art
artistic style of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the 13th century
5,995
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views
13
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
5,511
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views
14
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
5,320
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views
15
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
5,130
views
views
16
eclecticism
conceptual approach
4,912
views
views
17
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
4,895
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views
18
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
4,495
views
views
19
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
4,479
views
views
20
historicism
art and architecture movement
4,453
views
views
21
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
4,313
views
views
22
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
4,126
views
views
23
Mannerism
style of European art
4,117
views
views
24
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
3,723
views
views
25
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
3,374
views
views
26
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
3,274
views
views
27
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
3,047
views
views
28
Die Brücke
German expressionist artist group
3,031
views
views
29
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
2,798
views
views
30
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
2,713
views
views
31
dark romanticism
romanticism sub-genre
2,654
views
views
32
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
2,643
views
views
33
First Viennese School
composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven (Franz Schubert is occasionally added to the list)
2,609
views
views
34
pop art
art movement
2,605
views
views
35
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
2,585
views
views
36
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
2,558
views
views
37
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
2,475
views
views
38
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
2,459
views
views
39
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
2,429
views
views
40
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
2,387
views
views
41
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
2,336
views
views
42
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
2,325
views
views
43
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
2,276
views
views
44
Futurism
artistic and social movement
2,040
views
views
45
literary realism
literary movement
2,024
views
views
46
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
1,936
views
views
47
naturalism
literary movement
1,886
views
views
48
expressionism
literary movement
1,813
views
views
49
Neue Musik
collective term for a vast number of different currents of composed, Central European influenced music from about 1910 to the present
1,800
views
views
50
Hamburger Schule
musical movement; music genre
1,790
views
views
51
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
1,670
views
views
52
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
1,653
views
views
53
Neue Sachlichkeit (Literatur)
1,627
views
views
54
Baroque painting
painting movement
1,549
views
views
55
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
1,537
views
views
56
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
1,494
views
views
57
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
1,479
views
views
58
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
1,435
views
views
59
Nazarene movement
early 19th century German Romantic painters
1,399
views
views
60
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
1,395
views
views
61
photorealism
art genre and movement
1,341
views
views
62
Renaissance painting
painting movement of that period of European history known as the Renaissance
1,302
views
views
63
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
1,295
views
views
64
op art
style of visual art that uses optical illusions
1,274
views
views
65
humour
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
1,265
views
views
66
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
1,239
views
views
67
ukiyo-e
Japanese art genre, fl. 17th–19th c., consisting of woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes, landscapes, flora, fauna, and erotica
1,214
views
views
68
Beat Generation
literary movement
1,187
views
views
69
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
1,122
views
views
70
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
1,117
views
views
71
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
1,107
views
views
72
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
1,107
views
views
73
Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
1,073
views
views
74
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
1,054
views
views
75
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
1,050
views
views
76
Viennese Actionism
Austrian short-lived art movement
1,047
views
views
77
symbolism
literary expression of the symbolism art movement
1,037
views
views
78
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
996
views
views
79
Informalism
art movement in Europe, parallel to abstract expressionism
995
views
views
80
Berlin Secession
German artistic movement
971
views
views
81
street art
art that is public and temporary in public spaces
962
views
views
82
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
954
views
views
83
Sentimentalism
literary movement
920
views
views
84
German Romanticism
intellectual movement in the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries
916
views
views
85
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
913
views
views
86
impressionism in music
movement in Western classical music, mainly during early 20th centuries
912
views
views
87
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
904
views
views
88
nishiki-e
Japanese multi-colored woodblock printing
900
views
views
89
New German Cinema
period (1962–1982) in West German cinema characterized by low-budget films influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism
883
views
views
90
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
874
views
views
91
naïve art
art movement
872
views
views
92
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
870
views
views
93
psychedelia
movement, subculture, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances
865
views
views
94
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
865
views
views
95
art of Classical Greece
864
views
views
96
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
864
views
views
97
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
862
views
views
98
Post-romanticism
cultural movement
856
views
views
99
Zero
group of artists
838
views
views
100
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
836
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