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4 days ago · The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist ( Conrad ...
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The Cabinet of Caligari is a 1962 American horror film by...
- Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20...
- Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (German: [lil ˈdaː.ɡo.vɐ] ⓘ; born Marie Antonia...
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May 5, 2024 · Twilight of Humanity—a journey through the poetry of German Expressionism in English, named for 1919's monumental Menschheitsdämmerung anthology of the movement's greatest poets. Besides poetry, we post & discuss Expressionist cinema & art, Weimar, &c. Click to read Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English, by Oliver ...
May 11, 2024 · This colourful exhibition at Tate Modern is about the brighter side of German Expressionism — an idealistic group of artists called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), who lived and worked in Murnau, a quaint market town in Bavaria, during those halcyon days before the First World War.
May 6, 2024 · Exactly what faculties characterize Expressionism in cinema? Historians have defined this movement in widely differing ways. Some claim that the genuine Expressionist films resemble The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in using a distorted, graphic form of mise-en-scene derived from theatrical Expressionism and Expressionist painting.
May 2, 2024 · Notable Works: “Street, Berlin”. Movement / Style: Expressionism. Die Brücke. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (born May 6, 1880, Aschaffenberg, Bavaria, Ger.—died June 15, 1938, near Davos, Switz.) was a German painter and printmaker who was one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”).
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May 2, 2024 · An oil painting by the German Expressionist Gabriele Münter portrays two of her friends lolling in summer indolence on a verdant Alpine slope, under a lowering indigo sky.
3 days ago · Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.
