GermanY 1918-1933:

A People in crisis

The German Trenches

Kaiser Wilhelm II

The “Victory Deception”

British Naval Blockade of Germany

The German navy mutiny rather than be forced to confront the British and be slaughtered. This

fosters a sense of seething anger among the German people.

German Surrender:

11AM on 11/11/18

• Cessation of Fighting• Withdrawal of German

Troops from Foreign Territories

• Exchange of Prisoners• Demolition of German

Warships & Submarines

•REPARATIONS

Hyperinflation(1921-1924)

Dresden 1905

Edvard Munch’s The Scream . . . A major influence

EXPRESSIONISM: a style of painting, music, film, or

drama in which the artist attempts to communicate

emotional experience rather than impressions of the

external world

Emil Nolde’s Masks (1911)(watercolor)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scene (1913)

Franz Marc’s Fate of the Animals (1913) . . . Marc died in battle the very next year

Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)

G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box(1929)

Advertisement for Paul Wegener’s Der Golem (1920)

Josef Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel(1930)

Oneiricism . . . The Nightmarish Vision

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

― Sigmund Freud

What is Munch saying here?

Chiaroscuro: the purposeful use of light and shadow in a work of art

F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu(1922)

The Femme Fatale

from Fritz Lang’s M (1931)

Geometrical Absurdity

How do the geometrics in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis reflect the

nature of the city?

Most Common Themes in WC . . .

Madness

Betrayal

1933

Hollywood

Money and Safety

And . . .

The Birth of Film Noir

to be continued . . .