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Neue Sachlichkeit: see new objectivity new objectivity (Ger. Neue Sachlichkeit), German art movement of the 1920s. The chief painters of the movement were George Grosz and Otto Dix, who were sometimes called verists. ..... Click the link for more information. . Neue Sachlichkeit(German; “New Objectivity”) Movement in German painting of the 1920s and early 1930s reflecting the cynicism and resignation of the post-World War I period. The term was coined in 1925 by Gustav Hartlaub, director of the Mannheim Kunsthalle, for an exhibition including works by George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann, the movement's leading exponents. They worked in a realistic style, as opposed to the prevailing styles of abstraction and Expressionism, using meticulous detail to portray evil in smooth, cold, and static images derived from Italian Metaphysical painting for the purpose of violent social satire. The movement ended in the 1930s with the rise of Nazism. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I'm still not sure that I understand what Modernism is (or was)--certainly not a style, for it encompassed Futurism and Suprematism, Dada and the Neue Sachlichkeit, lavish houses for millionaires and Existenzminimum. An offshoot of this enterprise, a series of sharp prints reminiscent of the semiempirical manner of the neue Neue Sachlichkeit (i. Though Wolfgang Pehnt traces the development of the concept of the New Man back to the nineteenth century, his essay (unfootnoted) and Jeannine Fiedler's chapter emphasize the Neue Sachlichkeit New Man of the second half of the 1920s; yet the earlier rendition of the Bauhaus' utopian vision was actually closer to that of the kibbutz. |
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