Expressionism was a revolution in art. With bold colors, exaggerated gestures, and radical compositions, artists of the early 20th century sought new ways to express emotional and psychological states. The exhibition Experiment Expressionism. Schiele meets Nosferatu at the Heidi Horten Collection brings together, for the first time, visual art and silent film from the 1920s in direct dialogue. Presenting around 170 works 3 including paintings, watercolors, photographs, film posters, stills, and excerpts from classics such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu 3 A Symphony of Horror (1922) 3 the exhibition illustrates the remarkable diversity of this expressive movement.
 
Curated by Agnes Husslein-Arco, Rolf H. Johannsen and Roland Fischer-Briand (Film), the exhibition takes as its starting point major works from German and Austrian Expressionism, featuring artists such as Herbert Boeckl, Bettina Ehrlich- Bauer, Helene Funke, Richard Gerstl, Erika Giovanna Klien, Carry Hauser, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Alfons Walde, Marianne von Werefkin, and Alfred Wickenburg.