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The term "Expressionist architecture" initially described the activity of the German, Dutch, Austrian, Czech and Danish avant garde from 1910 until 1930. Subsequent redefinitions extended the term backwards to 1905 and also widened it to encompass the rest of Europe. Today the meaning has broadened even further to refer to architecture of any ...
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film is a book by film critic and writer Siegfried Kracauer, published in 1947. Background [ edit ] This work of film theory is one of the first major studies of German film between World War I and World War II and is best known for proposing a link between the apolitical and ...
Gert Heinrich Wollheim was born in Dresden - Loschwitz. From 1911 to 1913, he studied at the College of Fine Arts in Weimar , where his instructors included Albin Egger-Lienz and Gottlieb Forster. [1] From 1914 to 1917 he was in military service in World War I, where he sustained an abdominal wound. [2]
History. The term first appears around 1927 to identify a particular style of dance emerging from within the new forms of 'expressionist dance' developing in Central Europe since 1917. Its main exponents include Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss and Rudolf Laban. The term reappears in critical reviews in the 1980s to identify the work of primarily German ...
Writer, film critic. Awards. Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1982) Lotte H. Eisner (5 March 1896, Berlin – 25 November 1983, Paris) was a German-French writer, film critic, archivist and curator. Eisner worked initially as a film critic in Berlin, then in Paris where in 1936 she met Henri Langlois with whom she founded the Cinémathèque ...
The visuals bear a strong German Expressionist influence—what critic Lothar Lang describes as "the pictorial vocabulary of Expressionism". Masereel shared with the Expressionists a fondness for the woodcut, though he rejected such labeling of his work.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz. Werner Scholz (painter) Georg Schrimpf. Käthe Schuftan. Else Sehrig-Vehling. Hermann Sehrig. Richard Simon (painter) Heinrich Stegemann.
