New Objectivity
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The New Objectivity 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 Ma
War Veterans' Association by Georg Scholz (1922)
Made in Germany (Den macht uns keiner nach), by George Grosz, drawn in pen 1919, photo-lithograph published 1920 in the portfolio God with us (Gott mit Uns). Sheet 48.3 × 39.1 cm. In the collection of the MoMA, New York.
Alexander Kanoldt, Still Life with Jugs and Red Tea Caddy (1922)
Hans Mertens, Card Players, 1929
Max Beckmann
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Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the
New Objectivity
…it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a post-expressionist spirit. As these artists—who included Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Adolf Dietrich, George Grosz, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz and Jeanne Mammen—rejected the self-involvement and romantic…
Beckmann in 1922
Self-Portrait, House Gable in Background, drypoint, 1918
Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938
Birds’ Hell, 1937–1938