The Art of Society 1900-1945

The Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the last building designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been closed a full six years for refurbishment. To mark its reopening the museum is presenting the highlights of its classical modernist collection under the title The Art of Society, 1900-1945. Visionary, critical, resigned or utopian, the paintings and sculptures bear witness to art's dialogue with prevailing social conditions--from the German Empire to the First World War, the Weimar Republic and ultimately National Socialism. The catalogue documenting all works in the exhibition traces the major artistic tendencies during the first half of the 20th century in thirteen chapters. The Art of Society, 1900-1945 offers a renewed encounter with works by Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tamara de Lempicka, Lotte Laserstein, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and many others that is as captivating as it is illuminating.

Author: Irina Hiebert Grun, Johanna Yeats, Maike Steinkamp
Publisher: DCV
Published: 12/01/2021
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.60h x 7.80w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9783969120347
ISBN10: 3969120349
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General
- Art | European