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New Objectivity

The New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a…

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Location
Weimar Germany
Influenced
Magic realism
Influences
Post-expressionism
Major figures
Max Beckmann · Otto Dix · George Grosz · Christian Schad · Rudolf Schlichter
Years active
1920s–1933

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Music

Legacy

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related to Legacy · 28
New Objectivity → Adamson-Eric, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Uzarski, America, Auguste Herbin, Balthus, Cagnaccio, Expressionism, Franz Roh's, George Grosz, Germany, Grant Wood, January, Juhan Muks, Karl Hubbuch, Luis Buñuel, Maruja Mallo, Max Beckmann, National Socialists, Otto Nagel
related to Regional groups · 26
New Objectivity → Also, Anton Räderscheidt, Antonio Donghi, Berlin, Cologne, Dix, Dresden, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Georg Scholz, Gerd Arntz, Grosz, Hans Grundig, Heinrich Hoerle, Hubbuch's, In Cologne, Karl Hubbuch, Karlsruhe, Most New Objectivity, Munich, Schad
related to Architecture · 18
New Objectivity → Architects, Bauhaus, Bruno Taut, Dawes Plan, Erich Mendelsohn, Ernst May, Expressionist, German, Germany, Hans Poelzig, Nazis, Neues Bauen, New Building, New Objectivity's, Taut, The Neues Bauen, Weimar, Weissenhof Estate
related to Meaning · 17
New Objectivity → Although, Americanism, Crockett, Dennis Crockett, English, Expressionism, German, Germany, In, Neue Sachlichkeit, New Dispassion, New Matter-of-factness, New Resignation, New Sobriety, The, The Neue Sachlichkeit, Weimar Republic
related to Music · 14
New Objectivity → Composer Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Gebrauchsmusik, His, Kleine Kammermusik Op, Kurt Weill, Neues, New Objectivist, No, Otto Klemperer, Romanticism, Sancta Susanna, Tage, Though
related to External links · 13
New Objectivity → Archived, August, College Art Association, Fritz, German, Image Library, JSTOR, Neue Sachlichkeit, Schmalenbach, September, Tate, The Art Bulletin, The Term Neue Sachlichkeit
related to Film · 11
New Objectivity → As, Berthold Viertel, Ernő Metzner, Gerhard Lamprecht, His, In, Joyless Street, Other, Pabst, Pabst's, The
related to Literature · 11
New Objectivity → Abraham Jonker, Afrikaans, Alfred Döblin, Authors, Erich Kästner, Hans Fallada, Ingrid Jonker, Irmgard Keun, It, New Objective, The
related to Photography · 11
New Objectivity → Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, German New Objectivity, Germany, Japan, Karl Blossfeldt's, Neues Sehen, New Photography, Other, Shinkō, The
Major figures · 7
New Objectivity → Christian Schad, Georg Scholz, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Rudolf Schlichter

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new art objectivity artists expressionism german painting movement germany weimar works verists sachlichkeit literature neue term 1920s grosz expressionist style

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New ObjectivityInfluencedMagic realism1.00infobox
New ObjectivityInfluencesPost-expressionism1.00infobox
New ObjectivityLocationWeimar Germany1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresMax Beckmann1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresOtto Dix1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresGeorge Grosz1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresChristian Schad1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresRudolf Schlichter1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresGeorg Scholz1.00infobox
New ObjectivityMajor figuresJeanne Mammen1.00infobox
New ObjectivityYears active1920s–19331.00infobox
Picassoinstance ofThroughout Europe a return to order in the arts resulted in neoclassical works by modernists0.80text

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