German Expressionism had begun before World War I and continued to have a strong influence throughout the 1920s, although artists were increasingly likely to position themselves in opposition to expressionist tendencies as the decade went on.

German expressionist films represented a significant stylistic and thematic development in film that has had a lasting worldwide influence.

Miró has been a significant influence on late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist artists such as Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Pollock, Matta and Rothko, while his lyrical abstractions and color field paintings were precursors of that style by artists such as Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis and others.

Unlike expressionist films, Kammerspielfilme are categorized by their chamber play influence, involving a lack of intricate set designs and story lines / themes regarding social injustice towards the working classes.

During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco abstract expressionist sensibility ; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger artists by virtue of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.

His work still continues to plough expressionist furrows, though the influence of Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann and Morton Feldman, amongst others, has affected his style significantly.

He is considered the father of modern Slovene theatre and has had a major influence on almost all Slovene playwrights thereafter, starting from the expressionist theatre of the 1920s ( Slavko Grum, Stanko Majcen ).

His films would retain a distinctive expressionist influence in both mediums.

Although the abstract expressionist school spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York City and the San Francisco Bay area of California.

Apart from the formal aspects of classicism, there was a continuous tradition of realistic depiction of objects that survived in Byzantine art throughout the period, while in the West it appears intermittently, combining and sometimes competing with new expressionist possibilities developed in Western Europe and the Northern legacy of energetic decorative elements.

Writing for L ' Espresso, Italian novelist Alberto Moravia highlighted the film's variations in tone: " Highly expressive throughout, Fellini seems to change the tone according to the subject matter of each episode, ranging from expressionist caricature to pure neo-realism.

Noting that Whale's reputation has been subsumed by the " Karloff cult ", Sarris cites Bride of Frankenstein as the " true gem " of the Frankenstein series and concludes that Whale's career " reflects the stylistic ambitions and dramatic disappointments of an expressionist in the studio-controlled Hollywood of the thirties ".

His reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finished troubled projects, such as 1939's Hotel Imperial.

Alpert has a second career as an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor with group and solo exhibitions around the United States and Europe.

At the age of 28, she saw the German expressionist Mary Wigman perform, and decided to continue her dance career at the Wigman School in Dresden where she soon became a member of the company.

They had some hopes that in Europe they could train with the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka at his school.

It can be viewed as the marriage between the director's early experiences with expressionist techniques in Germany as well as the spartan style already visible in his late American work.

Frankenstein roughly alternates between distorted expressionistic shots and more conventional styles, with the character of Dr. Waldman serving as " a bridge between everyday and expressionist spaces ".

An expressionist painting with mayor Adenauer ( in grey ) together with artists and a boxer.

Schwitters was to come into contact with Herwarth Walden after exhibiting expressionist paintings at the Hanover Secession in February 1918.

He showed two Abstraktionen ( semi-abstract expressionist landscapes ) at Walden's gallery Der Sturm, Berlin, June 1918, which led directly to meetings with members of the Berlin Avant-garde, including Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch and Hans Arp in the autumn of 1918.

He was a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, and he was associated with German expressionist groups: Die Brücke, the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter circle and Die Blaue Vier ( The Blue Four ).

In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Then there is Samuel Beckett, born in 1906, a writer with roots in the expressionist tradition of modernism, who produced works from the 1930s until the 1980s, including Molloy ( 1951 ), En attendant Godot ( 1953 ), Happy Days ( 1961 ), Rockaby ( 1981 ).

By the early 1960s minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art ( with roots in geometric abstraction of Kazimir Malevich, the Bauhaus and Piet Mondrian ) that rejected the idea of relational and subjective painting, the complexity of abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of action painting.

In another episode with Münter during the Bavarian abstract expressionist years, Kandinsky was working on his Composition VI.

He spent a brief time between 1906-1907 as a member of the revolutionary expressionist group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ), and as a member of the Berlin Secession in 1908-1910, but he eventually left or was expelled from both of these groups – foreshadowing of the difficulty Nolde had maintaining relationships with the organizations to which he belonged.

According to Dr. John Lane, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 1997, although Van Vliet's work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist and his painting " has that same kind of edge the music has.

(; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951 ) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

The first of these periods, 1894 – 1907, is identified in the legacy of the high-Romantic composers of the late nineteenth century, as well as with " expressionist " movements in poetry and art.

With a beat of a kettledrum, Benn started as an expressionist poet before World War I when he published a booklet of poems, titled Morgue and other Poems, 1912, dealing with physical decay of flesh, with blood, cancer, and death — for example No III — „ Cycle:

The atmospheric use of black-and-white expressionist cinematography by Robert Krasker, with harsh lighting and distorted camera angles, is a key feature of The Third Man.

This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the prolific expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund.

Heavily influenced by George Grosz, Félix Vallotton, Fernand Léger, Eric Gill and, most of all, the narrative woodcuts of Frans Masereel, Harper's style evolved in the 1980s in a bolder, expressionist direction, with much of his later work resembling woodcut, although he mainly works in pen and ink, and watercolour.

Furthermore there have been expressionist writers of prose fiction, as well as non-German speaking expressionist writers, and, while the movement had declined in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, there were subsequent expressionist works.

Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), directed by Robert Wiene, is usually credited as the first German expressionist film.

The self-deluded lead characters in many expressionist films echo Goethe's Faust, and Murnau indeed retold the tale in his film Faust.

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang.

Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.

Note: The striking abstract expressionist paintings in the film were created internationally renowned artist Paul Jenkins who taught Alan Bates his painting technique for his acting role.

Schroeter had wanted to make a black and white film with amateur actors and location shots, but Fassbinder instead shot it with professional actors in a lurid, expressionist color, and on sets in the studio.

His own projects include Mark Dresser's " Force Green ," and the Mark Dresser Trio, performing his music for the French Surrealist film masterpiece of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un chien andalou as well as the German expressionist silent film classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

* The Caligari Carnival is an allusion to the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

* One of von Twardowski's first film appearances was in the classic silent German expressionist horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ).

She was inspired by expressionist German cinema, by French surrealism and American film noir.

Basquiat is a 1996 biopic / drama film directed by fellow painter Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist / neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The film is a mixture of British realism and the German expressionist use of extreme light and shade which Hillier has been trained in, and is notable for its depiction of the English landscape.

Medieval Josefov is depicted in the 1920 film The Golem, composed of crampt, angular, squinted buildings, but this impression is used purely to convey the expressionist nature of the film.

The city in Dark City is described by Higley as a " murky, nightmarish German expressionist film noir depiction of urban repression and mechanism ".

Her film appearances include Smashing Time ( 1967 ), a short but notable scene that she shares with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ), the German expressionist sequence of Casino Royale ( 1967 ) and in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) as Baroness Bomburst.

Paul Wegener ( 11 December 1874 – 13 September 1948 ) was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.

In 1932 Wegener made his sound debut in Richard Oswald's black comedy / horror film Unheimliche Geschichten, in which he made fun of himself as well as the whole expressionist movie genre.

Elements of No Wave Cinema, French New Wave, punk film, expressionist, spiritual and transcendental filmmaking, as well as Antonin Artaud's ideas on the Theatre of Cruelty helped lead to this new film movement.