Expressionism & Kammerspielfilm

Der Jedermann (Reinhardt, 1920)

Chiaroscuro lighting

Rembrandt (1606-1669)

The Night Watch, aka, The Company of Captain Frans Cocq (1642)

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Holy Family (1640)

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Expressionist Painting

• The Isle of the Dead (1880), Arnold Bocklin
  
• Self-portrait (1889), Vincent Van Gogh
  
• Starry Night (1889), Vincent Van Gogh
  
• Death in The Sickroom (1893), Edvard Munch
  
  "My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
  (Source: Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New [NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980] 281)
  
• Puberty (1884-5), Edvard Munch
  
• Madonna (1894-5), Edvard Munch
  
• The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
  
  
• The Tempest (1914), Oskar Kokoschka
  
• The Night (1918-9), Max Beckmann
  
• Lavender Mist (1950), Jackson Pollack
  

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1919)

Sets

"Lighting"

Performance Style

Kammerspielfilm

The Last Laugh

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