German Art of the 20th Century Expressionism

German Art of the 20th Century: Expressionism


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Friday Morning Lecture & Tour Series | German Expressionist Art 1905-1937

The San Diego Museum of Art
  Nov 20, 2012
Looking at the interaction between politics and creativity during the first half of the 20th century, Cornelia Feye, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library School of the Arts and Arts Education Director, will put into context works on view in The Human Beast.

German art experienced an extraordinary surge of creativity in the years before World War I and throughout the Weimar Republic. In 1905 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded the expressionist movement Die Bruecke together with like-minded artists in Dresden. In Munich Wassily Kandinsky started the Blaue Reiter with Paul Klee, Franz Marc and August Macke in 1911. Artists like Kaethe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix were associated with the movement. Several started to teach at the Bauhaus  School and their influence grew beyond Germany - until the Nazi regime put an end to all avant-garde arts by declaring them "degenerate" and confiscating thousands of artworks in museums and private collections all over Germany. This lecture will look at the interaction between politics and creativity during this time period.

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Otto Dix – Controversial painter of the New Objectivity movement

wocomoCULTURE
 Sep 21, 2022
Otto Dix was born in 1891 and was a German painter and printmaker. He was well known for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the overall brutality of war. Together with Max Beckmann and George Grosz, he is considered to be one of the most important artists of the movement of the so called "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity"). His experiences of World War I influenced him greatly as a painter and his first great subjects were crippled soldiers. Later on he also painted nudes and often savagely satirical portraits of celebrities from Germany's intellectual circles. In the early 1930s, he became a target of the Nazis and his work became darker and more allegorical. Slowly but gradually he moved away from social themes and turned to draw Christian subjects and landscapes.

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Egon Schiele

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