From Caligari to Hitler: "
Hans Behrendt, Atlas supporting the heavens in 'Potsdam' (1927)
Eva May in Karl Grune's The Count of Charolais (1922)
G. W. Pabst, The Love of Jeanne Ney, 1927
Fritz Lang, Die Nibelungen, 1924
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Vampir, 1932
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Faust, 1926
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Faust, 1926
Emil Jannings in Murnau's "Faust"
Arnold Fanck, Die Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü, 1929
A brilliant essay by Nina Power on the pre-Nazi Bergfilms
It is the combination of physical flawlessness and the blind celebration of danger that leads Siegfried Kracauer, in his From Caligari to Hitler, to claim that the mountain films, so beloved of the young Hitler, were 'rooted in a mentality kindred to Nazi spirit'.
Martin Muncácsi, Leni Riefenstahl, 1931
Ludwig Meidner, Apocalyptic Landscape, 1912
UFA movie poster for the original screening of Paul Wegener's The Golem, 1920
Paul Wegener and Lya de Putti in The Golem, 1920
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
According to Siegfried Kracauer in From Caligari to Hitler the artist Alfred Kubin was the original choice to provide the highly stylized backdrops for the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919). Other artists were ultimately utilized, but it’s fascinating to contemplate how his macabre and surrealistic imagination could have affected the film. Alfred Kubin, The Hour of Death, 1900
Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover in Robert Wiene's The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
Lyonel Feininger, The Green Bridge II, 1916
Henrik Galeen, The Student of Prague (1926)
G.W. Pabst, The Joyless Street (1925) with Greta Garbo (far left) in her last European film before emigrating to the United States
Karl Grune, Die Straße, 1923
Erich Godal, Die Straße (The Street), 1923
Albert Birkle, Leipziger Straße Berlin, 1923
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu, 1922
Fritz Lang, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, 1933
Lil Dagover in The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)
Asta Nielsen in Svend Gade's Hamlet, 1921
Louise Brooks in "Pandora's Box" (G.W.Pabst, 1929)
Lotte Jacobi, Lotte Lenya, c. 1930
Marlene Dietrich in Josef Von Sternberg's Shanghai Express, 1932
Henrik Galeen, Alraune, 1928 Josef von Sternberg, Der blaue Engel, 1930
Gustav Gründgens in Fritz Lang's, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931
Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol in Karl Freund's Mad Love (1935)
Peter Lorre
Erich von Stroheim
Conrad Veidt in Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Sebastian Droste (Husband of Anita Berber), 1923
Rudolf Klein Rogge in Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, 1933
Otto Dix, The Actor Heinrich George, 1933
Fritz Lang, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931 Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931 Fritz Lang, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931 Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Der Lustmörder (The Ripper), 1917 George Grosz, John, the Lady Killer, 1918 Caligari Movie Poster Fritz Lang, c. 1930 Fritz Lang, Spies, 1928 Fritz Lang, Spies, 1928 Fritz Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou in their Berlin apartment, in 1923 or 1924 (which is, when they prepared the script for Metropolis) Metropolis original 1927 theatrical release poster Paul Kirnig, Town, 1923 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gläsener Wolkenkratzer (Glass Skyscraper), Berlin 1922 Art director Erich Kettelhut & crew create the futuristic city set of Metropolis Fritz Kahn, Man as Industrial Palace, 1926 Brigitte Helm in Metropolis Fritz Lang, Metropolis (Production Still), 1925 Brigitte Helm as Maria in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, (1926) Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age), c. 1920 Rudolf Dischinger, Bedrohung (Menace), 1935 Fritz Lang, Woman in the Moon, 1929 Fritz Lang, actress Gerda Maurus & crew on the set of Woman in the Moon (1929) Gustav Fröhlich in Lang's Metropolis: The Seven Cardinal Sins Otto Dix, The Seven Cardinal Sins, 1933 John Martin, Illustration to Paradise Lost, 1825 Fritz Lang, Metropolis 
Magnus Zeller, The Orator, 1920Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, 1934 "
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