I visited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Thursday October 29th to experience the exhibit entitled "New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933." The large exhibit covering the second floor of the Broad building does a good job of bringing the viewer to the period of time when Germany reeled from the terrible losses in the first World War. The color and joy shown by the artists before the war that extended the expressionism of Van Gogh, Matisse, and others is gone. What remains is the bleak, controlled, relatively pale art in this 14 year period leading up to the control of the Hitler government. People escaped to night clubs, prostitution, and other behavior to avoid the realities of their bleak lives. The period after the fall of the monarchy and the experiment in democracy had high inflation, and general low morale.
Here are a few pictures from the LACMA web site. No photography was allowed.
"Dance in Baden-Baden," 1923, oil on canvas by Max Beckmann.
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| "Self Portrait with Model," 1927 by Christain Schad |
"The Yellow Boiler," 1933 by Carl Grossberg.
Upper image: Otto Dix, "To Beauty," 1922, oil and collage on canvas. Lower Image: Aenne Biermann, "Woman with Monocle," 1928 gelatin silver print.
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