Artists

Egon Schiele

Press release

Experiment Expressionism - Schiele meetsNosferatu is a comprehensive, cross-genre exhibition on Expressionism. Important works from the Heidi Horten Collection act as a starting point of the exhibition that is curated by Agnes Husslein-Arco, Rolf H. Johannsen and Roland Fischer-Briand. In particular works by the Expressionist painters Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, among others. These artists are shown in context with works by Austrian Expressionist painters like Herbert Boeckl, Helene Funke, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, Egon Schiele, Helene von Taussig and others.

In addition to visual arts, painting and sculpture, the exhibition also focuses on silent film - the new, if not leading medium of the time - which is illustrated in the exhibition with posters, film stills and excerpts from classics such as Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari or Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, but also films less familiar to the general public such as Orlac's Hände or Der müde Tod.

During the exhibition, the museum offers an evening program presenting silent films that will be shown for the first time in long version, accompanied by live music.