{"id":82173,"date":"2025-04-11T06:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=82173"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:39:25","slug":"experiment-expressionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/experiment-expressionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiment Expressionism exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentexpressionismsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-82845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentexpressionismsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentexpressionismsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Schiele meets Nosferatu. Not an intriguing encounter down a coffee house, but the <em>Experiment Expressionism<\/em> exhibition at the Heidi Horten Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expressionism in art and film<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focus on early 1900s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Features Schiele, Kokoschka &amp; others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look for the rare <em>Metropolis<\/em> poster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intriguing parallels between movies &amp; painting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Apr 11 &#8211; Aug 31, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/heidi-horten-collection\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"47637\">Heidi Horten Collection<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Other art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schiele meets Nosferatu<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"303\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism2.jpg\" alt=\"Schiele self-portrait painting\" class=\"wp-image-82169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism2.jpg 303w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism2-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Egon Schiele, Selbstbildnis mit Pfauenweste, 1911 \u00a9 Ernst Ploil, Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having its own name stands as a badge of honour for an art movement. At least until the counter-revolution starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the birth of the modern world (and, sadly, modern warfare) in the early 1900s, numerous artists set out on the path that would lead to expressionism as an established concept: painting as an expression of feelings, emotions and psychological states, with bold colours and subjective or distorted representations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such an approach found form off the canvas, too, as the <em>Experiment Expressionism<\/em> exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/heidi-horten-collection\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"47637\">Heidi Horten Collection<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition builds a dialogue between Austrian and German expressionist art but also between the paintings and film that shared the exploratory expressionist aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the painting side, we have works from numerous artists, including names of such renown as Schiele, Kokoschka, Gerstl, Kirchner, Nolde, and Chagall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Works by Schiele seem to stand out from the rest more and more with each passing year. And I was particularly taken by Jean Egger&#8217;s 1921 <em>The Family (Eternity)<\/em>, which struck me as a work of chromatic genius.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism1.jpg\" alt=\"View of an art exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-82168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Exhibition view; photo: Ouriel Morgensztern)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we have the parallels with certain films of the time: a commonality that might not occur to the casual observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photography and, particularly, cinema took the expressionist baton from the artists and ran with it, giving us such classics as 1922&#8217;s <em>Nosferatu &#8211; A Symphony of Horror<\/em> or 1924&#8217;s <em>The Hands of Orlac<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see these parallels in, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The abiding images of twisted hands in both films mentioned above: a motif common in gestural expressionist paintings and just about every portrait I&#8217;ve ever seen by Egon Schiele<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The stylistic use of light, shadow and distortion (also in film posters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The split personality within the 1920 movie <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em>, which mirrors the expressionist approach seen in portraits by Nolde, Pechstein &amp; Jawlensky and the tension between who we are and who we wish to project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"205\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism3.jpg\" alt=\"Metropolis film poster\" class=\"wp-image-82170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism3.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/experimentalexpressionism3-137x300.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Heinz Schulz-Neudamm, Poster for Metropolis, 1926 \u00a9 \u00d6NB\/Wien, PLA16301956)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These and other expressionist themes provide the context for the presentation of a key era in art history that continues to send ripples through to today. 2024, for example, saw the release of <em>Nosferatu<\/em>, a remake of (and homage) to the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film parts to the exhibition come in the form of stills, clips, posters, and even occasional full-length showings. And <em>Experiment Expressionism<\/em> actually includes possibly the most valuable movie poster in the world\u2026for Fritz Lang&#8217;s legendary 1926 <em>Metropolis<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On loan from Austria&#8217;s National Library, only three other original copies in this format are said to still exist. One is allegedly owned by Leonardo di Caprio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Plunge into the world of experimental expressionism from April 11th to August 31st, 2025. An entrance ticket for or from the Heidi Horten Collection includes all exhibitions within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the artists featured also appear in the Leopold Museum&#8217;s permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/schiele-leopold\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4068\">Vienna 1900 exhibition<\/a>. I can also recommend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/egon-schiele-last-years\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"81402\">Changing Times<\/a> special exhibition there, which explores Schiele&#8217;s biography and artistic journey from 1914 until his untimely death in 1918 (ends July 13th, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heidi Horten Collection is very central, right on the edge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/hofburg\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2708\">Hofburg complex<\/a> that dominates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/transport\/walking-tours\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"59674\">tourist walks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/transport\/tours-overview\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"59926\">tours<\/a>. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/heidi-horten-collection\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"47637\">main museum overview<\/a> for travel tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1asmHlbVpicbQLt1557vf6l4l0zQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schiele meets Nosferatu. 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