24.05.2024 – 29.09.2024
After the First World War, art called for a new depiction of reality. Resignation, accusation and indescribable misery on the one hand, hope, longing and the emerging lust for life of the so-called “Golden Twenties” on the other were to describe this epochal phenomenon in a new way: unsentimental, sober, concrete and puristic; in short: in a factual-realistic manner. Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Grethe Jürgens, Lotte Laserstein, Felix Nussbaum, Gerta Overbeck, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and many others captured the zeitgeist on canvas and paper. The first comprehensive exhibition of German New Objectivity in Austria – curated by Hans-Peter Wipplinger – follows on from the two exhibitions of Austrian New Objectivity presented at the Leopold Museum, Menschheitsdämmerung and Hagenbund. From Moderate to Radical Modernism.
Glamour and misery. New Objectivity in Germany
24.05.2024 – 29.09.2024
Leopold Museum
Museumquartier Wien
Museumplatz 1
1070 Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
