The Art of Society
1900–1945

Editor(s)

Dieter Scholz, Irina Hiebert Grun, Joachim Jäger, Nationalgalerie Berlin

Author(s)

Dieter Scholz, Irina Hiebert Grun, Joachim Jäger, Maike Steinkamp, Johanna Yeats

Design

Book Book

Cover

Softcover

Size

20 x 27 cm

Pages

280

Illustrations

285

Language(s)

English

ISBN

978-3-96912-034-7

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.

Click here for the German edition.

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