German Expressionist film makers, during the Weimar Republic era and slightly earlier, would significantly influence later films, not only those in the horror genre.

Expressionist influence is also evident in the acting, costuming and the design of the Monster.

Benn had an enormous literary influence on German poetry and verse-making immediately before World War I ( as an Expressionist ) and even after World War II ( as the ' Static ' poet ).

The change in scale of her sculptures, the influence of Latin American ancient art, and her gallery activity during this time is credited with bringing " Nevelson's sculpture in league with the grand scale of Abstract Expressionist painting, as well as the earlier mural painting of Rivera.

Directors such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Carol Reed and Michael Curtiz introduced the Expressionist style to crime dramas of the 1940s, expanding Expressionism's influence on modern film making.

Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography.

Also, unlike the majority of Murnau's other works, The Last Laugh is considered a Kammerspielfilm with Expressionist elements.

( translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror ; or simply Nosferatu ) is a classic 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

In prose, the early stories and novels of Alfred Döblin were influenced by Expressionism, and Franz Kafka is sometimes labelled an Expressionist.

In Expressionist drama, the speech is either expansive and rhapsodic, or clipped and telegraphic.

What distinguished these composers from their contemporaries ( such as Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin and Igor Stravinsky ) is that Expressionist composers used atonality self-consciously to free their work from traditional tonality.

The look of the characters is also eclectic and, in some cases, anachronistic, resembling artistic depictions of different eras ( the costumes of the Roman soldiers and the Pharisees, for example, are influenced by Renaissance art, whereas Jesus has been likened to Byzantine art as well as the work of Expressionist artist Georges Rouault ).

California Abstract Expressionist Jay Meuser, who typically painted in the non-objective style, wrote about his painting Mare Nostrum, " It is far better to capture the glorious spirit of the sea than to paint all of its tiny ripples.

It is a proto-absurdist, Expressionist drama, and some critics have identified it as a precursor to the plays of Samuel Beckett.

The term is less often used of art after the late nineteenth century, although the Expressionist and other modern movements make great use of the effect.

It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film used stylized sets, with abstract, jagged buildings painted on canvas backdrops and flats.

Elsaesser's alternative thesis is that the filmmakers adopted an Expressionist style as a method of product differentiation, establishing a distinct national product against the increasing importation of American films.

Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.

His short play " Murderer, the Hope of Women " ( 1909, set ten years later by Paul Hindemith as Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ) is often called the first Expressionist drama.

It is a major plot element in the classic silent German Expressionist film Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( English title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ).

It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions.

During the 1940s, he became increasingly identified with the Abstract Expressionist movement and was recognized as one of its leaders into the mid-1950s, while notoriously stating: " It is disastrous to name ourselves.

A review of the exhibition in the New York Times noted that it " clearly defines Krasner's place in the New York School " and that she " is a major, independent artist of the pioneer Abstract Expressionist generation, whose stirring work ranks high among that produced here in the last half-century.

Expressionist dance (, also translated as " expressive dance ") is a European dance form that is part of the German Expressionist movement.

He was also influenced in respect to aesthetics by the work of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich as well as the work of Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka.

However, he believed that ' a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints ', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.

The score was also produced in a salon orchestration which was performed for the first time in the United States in August 2007 by The Bijou Orchestra under the direction of Leo Najar as part of a German Expressionist film festival in Bay City, Michigan.

He was also briefly a member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke.

T. S. Eliot has also been labeled an Expressionist.

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, the members of the Second Viennese School, wrote pieces described as Expressionist ( Schoenberg also made Expressionist paintings ).

The plaza level galleries also house African art and a gallery highlighting the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies.

This period also witnessed the start of a friendly relationship between Janco and the Expressionist artists who published in Herwarth Walden's magazine Der Sturm.

There is also a ( positive ) critique of Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual In Art, a faintly patronising exhortation to suffragettes not to destroy works of art, a review of a London exhibition of Expressionist woodcuts, and a last dig at Marinetti by Wyndham Lewis:

In addition to his sculpture, Barlach also wrote eight Expressionist dramas, two novels and an autobiography Ein selbsterzähltes Leben 1928, and had a distinguished oeuvre of woodcuts and lithographs from about 1910 onwards, including illustrations for his own plays.

Published quarterly, transition also featured Surrealist, Expressionist, and Dada art.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Resnick earned respect for his Abstract Expressionist paintings and also was unique for being one of the few New York artists to have a large working space for large-scale canvases.

Despite his artistic promise and interests ( by the age of fourteen, for instance, he was accompanying the famous German Expressionist dancer / choreographer, Gertrud Leistikow, and he also moved in the circle of one of Holland's foremost composers of the time, Sem Dresden ) he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam in 1938 to study medicine.

An admirer of both Frans Masereel and Käthe Kollwitz, he also adapted Expressionist guidelines — ones especially present in his satirical drawings, but also manifested large works such as Coadă la pâine (" Queuing for Bread ", 1920 ).

" Others considered the painting evidence that Thomson was, or might have become, an increasingly abstract or Expressionist artist.

Later composers, such as Ernst Krenek, are often considered as a part of the Expressionist style of music.

The influential architectural critic and historian Sigfried Giedion, in his book Space, Time and Architecture ( 1941 ), dismissed Expressionist architecture as a part of the development of functionalism.

These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European culture in fields such as architecture, painting and cinema.

The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.