
	Where results make sense

Topic: German Expressionism

Related Topics

Expressionism (film)

German film history

Film Studies

Cinema of Germany

Fury (1936 movie)

Nosferatu

Italian neorealism

Formalist film theory

Film noir

Fritz Lang

History of cinema

Marxist film theory

Expressionist

Expressionism

Horror film

	MSN Encarta - Expressionism
		This phase of expressionism in Germany was marked by the conscious exposition of emotions and a heightened sense of the possibilities for expressive content.
		Expressionism meanwhile had become an international movement, and the influence of the Germans is seen in the works of such artists as the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka, the French artist Georges Rouault, the Lithuanian-born French painter Chaïm Soutine, the Bulgarian-born French painter Jules Pascin, and the American painter Max Weber (see Painting).
		Expressionism in music, which crested between the two world wars, gave voice to the anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism of human life in the 20th century through emotionally intense, musically complex, and carefully structured works.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761552391 (1073 words)

	German Expressionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		German Expressionism rose as the theatrically horrific child of two major forces in German life in the early 20th century: Expressionist art and the loss of WWI.
		German Expressionism came to dominate horror and artistic cinema in the silent era, and while many other types of horror and art films were made (such as Universal's Phantom of the Opera), Expressionism remains the more well-recieved genre today.
		The artistic design of German Expressionism teeters on the brink of archetype and stereotype.
	silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com /germanexpressionism.html (727 words)

	NOTES7
		Expressionism - a theory of art, emphasizing a given artist's emotional, intense personal reaction, a theory in direct contrast to the traditional view that an artist should strive faithfully to reproduce the natural appearance of the object or person being painted, sculpted, or written about.
		German Expressionism concentrated on heavy use of light and dark, contrasts, exaggeration, tilted angles, a dreamlike atmosphere, and a distorting of the external world to reveal a given psychological state.
		German expressionism developed along the lines of stimmung, an intense atmospheric mood that creates a sense of claustrophobia (an intense closed style created in part by the unified method of in studio productions.) It revolted against Naturalism emphasizing the inner vision and personal emotional feelings of the filmmakers.
	www.gpc.edu /~jriggs/film1301/notes7.htm (961 words)

	- Shay's Spot: Writings -
		German Expressionist Cinema was one of the greatest achievements in early cinema history.
		German Expressionist Cinema was born, and it took some big steps forward in the foundation of modern cinema.
		Certainly the influence of German Expressionism can be seen in modern B Grade films - the methods of mood creation are easily spotted when low budgets are involved with their production.
	milgram.tripod.com /works/gefilm1.html (1281 words)

	German expressionism
		German emigrees such as Karl Freund (the cinematographer for 'Dracula in 1931) set the style and mood of the Universal monster movies of the 1930s with their dark and artistically designed sets, providing the benchmark for later generations of horror films.
		German Expressionism is dotted with dark images, sharp contrasting figues, jagged geometry, and chiaroscuro.
		Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time.
	www.jahsonic.com /GermanExpressionism.html (1471 words)

	Global Gallery - Knowledge Center - Expressionism
		Expressionism can be seen as the first and most dramatic departure from depicting the world and nature accurately and objectively through art.
		Expressionism was the dominant force in German art for the early part of the 20th Century.
		Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian, embraced Expressionism during his years in Germany and helped to found the famed Expressionist Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Group which is often seen as the high point of German Expressionism.
	www.globalgallery.com /knowledgecenter/know.expressionism.asp (265 words)

	WebMuseum: Expressionnism
		In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements.
		Expressionism can also be seen as a permanent tendency in Germanic and Nordic art from at least the European Middle Ages, particularly in times of social change or spiritual crisis, and in this sense it forms the converse of the rationalist and classicizing tendencies of Italy and later of France.
		Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910, (München, Dresde, Berlin), as heir of a national trend related to Grünewald: the Wallraf-Richartz museum, in Köln, has the richest collection of this era.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/glo/expressionism (586 words)

	German Expressionism: Art and Society 1909-1923 : Books : Thames & Hudson
		Expressionism is one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century.
		Any real explanation of German Expressionism must look at the complete picture, for the Expressionists also wrote poetry and manifestoes, designed buildings and were involved in cinema, theatre, and politics.
		Fully illustrated with paintings, drawings, woodcuts and sculpture by artists such as Kandinsky, Beckmann, Marc and Kollwitz, German Expressionism is distinguished by its breadth: all aspects of this revolutionary movement are fully discussed and it includes a detailed chronicle of the key political events and technological changes that swept Europe between 1900 and 1933.
	www.thamesandhudson.com /en/1/0500237506.mxs (204 words)

	Expressionism - Expressionism Art
		One of the earliest and most famous examples of Expressionism is Gogh's "The Starry Night." Whatever was cause, it cannot be denied that a great many artists of this period assumed that the chief function of art was to express their intense feelings to the world.
		Vienesse Expressionism later gained significance between years 1905 and 1918 during a politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic conditions of the turn-of-the-century Europe.
		Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm (765 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Expressionism
		Although the term expressionism was not applied to painting until 1911, the qualities attributed to expressionism are found in the art of almost every country and period.
		Painters and sculptors of medieval Europe exaggerated their work for the Romanesque and early Gothic cathedrals to intensify the spiritual expressiveness of the subjects.
		The most important expressionist group in the 20th century was the German school.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552391___2/Expressionism.html (544 words)

	EXPRESSIONISM I: DIE BRÜCKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM Artistic elements which are part of Expressionism are seen in art movements from earlier periods.
		However, "Expressionism" is first applied to art from the early part of the 20th century, primarily in northern Europe, and predominantly in Germany.
		German Expressionism was greatly influenced by medieval art, German Renaissance woodcut prints, German Romanticist painting, the colors of Gauguin and Van Gogh and the "primitive" art of Africa and the South Pacific.
	www.davis-art.com /artimages/slidesets/slideset.asp?setnumber=208 (242 words)

	Expressionism (from German literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In a broader sense Expressionism is one of...
		Germany did not become a modern nation-state until 1871, and the prior history of the various German states is marked by warfare, religious turmoil, and periods of economic decline.
		As in the history of the literature of most peoples, poetry was the first literary expression of the Germans.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-232426?tocId=232426 (785 words)

	German Expressionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is an example of German Expressionism: extreme stylization of mis-en-scene, gothic, low-life subject matter, world of angst and paranoia, nonrational and anti-bourgeois.
		WWI was a "key turning point" for German film, with new focus on the horror of war, defeat, and a new unity of artists in the Weimar Republic.
		German Expressionism ended by the depression and Hitler.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/expressionism.html (317 words)

	Poznan-berlin.html
		The latter, as the only genuine organ of Expressionism on Polish soil, was likewise a mouthpiece of the theory and art of the Bunt group.
		The term, similarly to the word KONTAKT, was chosen on purpose as it functions in both languages and implies distinguishing characteristics of Expressionism: in Polish it denotes a protest or revolt, whereas in German it refers to Expressionist distinct and garish colour contrasts.
		Her primary interests are the graphic oeuvre of Rembrandt and German Modernists from the circle of the Berliner Sezession and Expressionism as well as their impact on graphic art in Poland.
	web.utk.edu /~imprint/Halasa.html (629 words)

	The Robert Gore Rifkind Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies is a research facility devoted to the study of the Expressionist movement that flourished in Germany during the early twentieth century.
		The library of the Rifkind Study Center is one of the most comprehensive collections in existence devoted to German expressionism and offers a superb basis for study of its art and cultural milieu.
		Bibliography of German Expressionism: Catalog of the Library of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
	www.lacma.org /library/artsourc/lacrif.htm (900 words)

	ArtLex on Expression and Expressionism
		Contibuting to this effect is Leonardo's use of sfumato, which seems to suggest that we are observing this face as its expression is changing.
		Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painter's disposal for the expression of his feelings.
		Expressionism (with an uppercase E -- an art movement dominant in Germany from 1905-1925, especially Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, which are usually referred to as German Expressionism, anticipated by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and others), caricature, frisson, and obsession.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/expression.html (770 words)

	German Expressionism in Literature and Art. Consortium Course. UNCG
		This course focuses on German Expressionism as a youthful literary and artistic revolution that began in central Europe during the first decade of the 20th century, and ended with its demise in the wake of World War I, an era of dramatic political, cultural, and artistic turbulence.
		Expressionism emphasized activist ideals, harmonious symbioses of nature and culture, and subjective experiences and emotive pathos over materialist comforts and conformist realities.
		German majors and minors, students of art, history, literature and cultural studies, and all those interested in interdisciplinary discussions will find something of interest in this diverse course.
	www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/406Ex/406CourseHeader_files/406ExpressSyllabSpring2005.htm (871 words)

	WebMuseum: Expressionism
		Characterized by heightened, symbolic colors and exaggerated imagery, it was German Expressionism in particular that tended to dwell on the darker, sinister aspects of the human psyche.
		Although Expressionism developed a distinctly German character, the Frenchman, Georges Rouault (1871-1958), links the decorative effects of Fauvism in France with the symbolic color of German Expressionism.
		In 1905 a group of German Expressionist artists came together in Dresden and took that name chosen by Schmidt-Rottluff to indicate their faith in the art of the future, towards which their work would serve as a bridge.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/tl/20th/expressionism.html (895 words)

	Forbes.com: Collecting 20th-Century German And Austrian Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most obvious reason is the post-World War II stigma attached to German art in particular, even though the Nazis denounced most avant-garde art of their time as "degenerate," publicly mocking and sometimes even destroying it.
		The 1920s German art movement known as New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), for example, satirized the corruption and excesses of German society after World War I, the "Weimar Republic." Without some background in the historical circumstances, those pictures can be difficult to understand.
		Expressionism, on the other hand, requires little in the way of historical context to be appreciated, but in the past the images were often found too strong to be considered decorative.
	www.forbes.com /2001/11/21/1121conn.html (1129 words)

	Expressionism (1905) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Expressionism appeared in poetry and drama in Germany and Austria just before World War I, and was influenced by Freudian Theories of the subconscious and Nietzsche's anti-rationalism ideas.
		Expressionism can be found in the poems of Johannes Becher and Ernst Toller and in the prose for Franz Kafka.
		Expressionism was most popular amongst early-20th century German language playwrights such as August Strindberg and Frank Wedekind.
	www2.yk.psu.edu /~jmj3/sna_eli2.htm (188 words)

	Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
		Expressionism was the key movement in German literature, as it was in painting, during and immediately after World War I. Expressionism emphasized the inner significance of things and not their external forms.
		Georg Kaiser, the leading Expressionist playwright, moved from naturalism through Expressionism to a mature traditional style, while Carl Sternheim unmasked bourgeois pretensions by means of a shrill satire of contemporary language.
		Kafka's themes recall Expressionism, but his classically balanced style echoes the prose of the Swiss Robert Walser, author of Jakob von Gunten (1929).
	www.stanford.edu /dept/german/berlin_class/archives/glossary_expressionism.html (489 words)

	"Expressionism and Caligarisme" by Bouton Jones
		Before examining Caligarisme, it's necessary to define Expressionism, specifically its philosophy and conventions: The Expressionists intended a dynamic breakthrough into unexplored areas of experience, of visionary revolution against corrupt social traditions and false values.
		The body is an instrument, loudspeaker, means of expression, tool." (48) As Kasimir Edschmid wrote: Expressionist man wore "his heart painted on his chest." (Eisner 141) From this premise emerged the "ecstatic" style, an intensified acting style suggestive possession or insanity.
		Expression of a feeling which is not genuine and which has really been artificially stimulated is purer, clearer, and stronger than that of any person whose feeling is prompted by genuine stimulus...
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Studio/1689/expr_act.html (2443 words)

	http://xft001/classes/intlfilm/germanexpressionism.htm
		The German economy was finally stabilized in 1924 under the Dawes Plan, an Allied-brokered plan for Germany’s recovery that of course was designed in the interest of Allied nations’ corporations.
		Despite the fact that German cinema of the 1920s is usually reduced to being called German Expressionism, the height of the Expressionist cinema in Germany occurred in the early 1920s, and was gradually being altered toward more classical realist, less modernist, forms of representaiton by 1924.
		German silent cinema’s global effect on cinema can be most forcefully seen in the adoption of a darker visual style by Hollywood.
	www.montana.edu /metz/website/intlfilm/germanexpressionism.htm (3475 words)

	Spaightwood Galleries Presents Käthe Kollwitz and German Expressionism
		At the same time, we will also include important new acquisitions of some of the masterworks of German Expressionism, including works by Beckmann, Heckel, Nolde ("The Prophet," one of the signature works of German Expressionism), and Schmidt-Rottluff (his 1918 woodcut, "Kopf," illustrated in almost every book on German Expressionist printmaking).
		Another of the distinctive features of German Expressionism is its interest in the portrait, and we will feature many works that focus on a single face to see what it reveals about the person to whom it is attached.
		One of the greatest graphic artists of all time, Kollwitz, the granddaughter of a radical preacher and the daughter of a union organizer, a pacifist, a lover of childre, and a socialist, spent her life in an autocratic state which, whether rulerd by the Kaiser or the Nazis, hated everything for which she stood.
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Exhibitions.html (446 words)

	Spaightwood Galleries Presents Käthe Kollwitz and German Expressionism
		The title is actually a misnomer; a more accurate title would indicate that this is the art that the Kaiser hated, that the right-wingers who helped to bring about the downfall of the Weimar Republic hated, and that the militarists who ultimately threw their support to the Nazis hated.
		Finally, we will exhibit many works that reflect the distinctive interest of the German Expressionists in the portrait, and we will feature many works that focus on a single face to see what it reveals about the person to whom it is attached.
		Schmidt-Rottluff is one of the most important artists of German Expressionism and one of its greatest printmakers.
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Exhibitions_German_Exp.html (533 words)

	Expressionism: Artists and their Works
		Expressionism is a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.
		The movement is especially associated with Germany, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
		In the mid-20th century, Abstract Expressionism (in which there is no subject at all, but instead pure abstract form) developed into an extremely influential style in the United States.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /history/expressionism.html (136 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)