Expressionism & Kammerspielfilm

Der Jedermann, Salzburg Festival (Reinhardt, 1920, 1927)

Chiaroscuro lighting

Rembrandt (1606-1669)

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

Holy Family (1640)

The Isle of the Dead (1880), Arnold Bocklin (GAP)
Self-portrait (1889), Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night (1889), Vincent Van Gogh (GAP)
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)
Self-Portrait in Hell, Edvard Munch, source
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