The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37 at the National Gallery of Victoria

MELBOURNE.- This summer the National Gallery of Victoria presents the first exhibition in Australia to explore the radical avant-garde art movements that emerged in Germany during one of the most important and chaotic periods of the twentieth century. The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910–37 brings together an experimental, provocative and utterly compelling collection of over 200 paintings, photographs, prints, films, sculptures and decorative arts pieces with loans from museums and private collections around the world. Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said: [...]

Works from the Museum of Prints and Drawings Berlin, on Display at Kunstmuseum Bonn

BONN.- During the Weimar Republic, Verism and the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) were among Germany’s most characteristic art phenomena. These movements no longer responded to the experiences of World War I and the subsequent crisis of society by using the Expressionist utopia of the new man, an ecstasy of the subject and his emotions (“Emotion is a private matter”, Bertold Brecht stated in 1926). Neither did they react with the Constructivism the Bauhaus used for conveying art and life. They [...]