JEHANGIR NICHOLSON ART FOUNDATION
This exhibition is a tribute to the German cinematographer Josef Wirsching, a pioneer of Indian cinema. It explores the story of a world across worlds, of geo-cultural convergences that brought together Berlin and Calcutta, Munich and Bombay. The exhibition highlights how Wirsching's artistic imagination infused Indian cinema with the psychological depth and stylistic ethos of German Expressionism, responsible for the cinematic stylings of ground-breaking films of the era such as ‘Jawani ki Hawa’ (1935), ‘Achhut Kanya’ (1936), ‘Mahal’ (1949) and ‘Pakeezah’ (1972).
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