In the aftermath of the First World War, avant-garde, utopian and idealistic styles were rejected as superficial by German artists who sought more realistic responses to the everyday world of post-war ...
The end of the First World War shocked the arts, nowhere more so than in Germany. Empire was out. Democracy was in. A thin veil of liberalism shrouded the darker forces of defeatism, instability, and ...
Highlighting such painters as Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, the Neue Galerie devotes a show to the German art movement that was at once dispassionate and disturbing. Karen Wilkin ...