‘From Calgari to Hitler’
Ludwig Meidner, Apocalyptic Landscape, 1912
Images from the Weimar blog post ‘From Calgari to Hitler,’ named for Siegfried Kracauer’s book on German cinema (1910-40).
Jakob Steinhardt, The City, 1913
Robert Wiene, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari, 1919
Original sketch for a scene in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari from Lotte Eisner
Erich Godal, Die Straße (The Street), 1923
Louise Brooks in “Pandora’s Box” (G.W.Pabst, 1929)
Rudolf Klein Rogge in Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, 1933
Otto Dix, The Actor Heinrich George, 1933
George Grosz, John, the Lady Killer, 1918
Art director Erich Kettelhut & crew create the futuristic city set of Metropolis
Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age), c. 1920
John Martin, Illustration to Paradise Lost, 1825
Magnus Zeller, The Orator, 1920
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, 1934
