Neue Sachlichkeit, New Objectivity /

"This special exhibition at Neue Galerie New York debuts in conjunction with the centenary of Gustav F. Hartlaub's 1925 groundbreaking survey of the same name held at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. The New Objectivity movement is considered one of the most significant artistic developments of th...

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Other Authors: Peters, Olaf (Editor, Curator, Contributor), Price, Renée (writer of foreword.), Hartlaub, Gustav Friedrich, 1884-1963 (Contributor), Roh, Franz, 1890-1965 (Contributor), Dalbajewa, Birgit (Contributor), Plath, Carina (Contributor), Drobe, Christian (contribitor.), Bittner, Regina (Contributor), Schnepf, Robert (Contributor), Sachsse, Rolf (Contributor), Müller, Jürgen, 1961- (Contributor), Lindberg, Steven (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: New York : Munich ; London ; New York : Neue Galerie ; Prestel, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Renée Price
  • History. Neue Sachlichkeit/New Objectivity: The avant-garde and the mentality of the Weimar Democracy / Olaf Peters
  • Introduction to "New Objectivity": German painting since Expressionism / Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub
  • Analysis of a post-Expressionist painting / Franz Roh
  • Plates
  • Manifestations. An "enormous tension lying over our present": Verist and Neue Sachlichkeit painting in Dresden / Birgit Dalbajewa
  • Backyards of life: Hannover and the reality of female painters in the Weimar Republic / Carina Plath
  • The sculpture of Neue Sachlichkeit / Christian Drobe
  • Plates
  • Beyond art. Objective housing: On the difficulties of furnishing in the Modern Age / Regina Bittner
  • New Objectivity and the Vienna Circle / Robert Schnepf
  • Plates. Media. The eroticism of precision: photography and New Objectivity / Rolf Sachsse
  • Summer in the city: Robert Siodmak's People on Sunday and the aesthetics of New Objectivity / Jürgen Müller.