Splendor and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany

by Hans-Peter Wipplinger

Interwar Germany's prevailing artistic movement encapsulates the hardship and hedonism of the Weimar Republic

The ramifications of World War I called for new visual depictions of German social realities: the hardship on the one hand and the zest for life of the "Golden Twenties" on the other. This dichotomy resulted in the New Objectivity movement. Unsentimental, sober, specific and purist, it depicted the world in an objective,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3753306606
• ISBN13: 9783753306605
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 336 Pages