Costume and make-ups in a film are functional as much as the settings. When the setting is used to focus on backgrounds, costume and make-ups are applied to the human figures. In the scene of The cabinet of Dr. Caligari when the somnambulist Cesare who wears black kidnapped the white ni...
German artists have always been integral to the story of European art, notably in the movements of Expressionism and Modern Art thanks to the Blue... German Culture German Architecture Germany is home to a fascinating array of architectural styles, with city landmark structures, ‘Disney’ castl...
320 pp., over 200 color and black and white illustrations. This exhibition catalogue moves in a quasi-chronological fashion from the beginnings in German Expressionism through the First World War as a shock and a vast disillusionment, and on through the ambiguous and febrile days of the Weimar ...
This new turn to realism, best recognised by a 1925 exhibition in Mannheim,Neue Sachlichkeit(of which New Objectivity is the English translation), has at times been called Post-Expressionism, neo-naturalism, Verism, and Magic Realism. The diverse group of artists associated with this new realism ...
History of film - German Expressionism, Weimar Republic, Nazi Propaganda: Germany’s catastrophic defeat in World War II and the subsequent partitioning of the country virtually destroyed its film industry, which had already been corrupted by the Nazis.
He was a prolific graphic artist especially noted for the stark black-and-white effect that he employed in crudely incised woodcuts. Nolde was an early advocate of Germany’s National Socialist Party, but, when the Nazis came to power, they declared his work “decadent” and forbade him to...
Eschewing psychological overtones, Murnau treated the subject as pure fantasy and, with the aid of noted cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner, produced appropriately macabre visual effects, such as negative images of white trees against a black sky. Also memorable was the ghastly, cadaverous appearance ...