Edited by George T. M. Shackelford, Irina Hiebert Grun, and Joachim Jäger
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition organized by the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in cooperation with the Kimbell Art Museum.
The most important gathering of works from the distinguished modern art museum in Berlin ever presented in the United States, it features more than seventy paintings and sculptures by artists of international renown including Beckmann, Dix, Grosz, Kirchner, Nolde, Schad, and many others. The book's catalogue entries, accompanied by introductory essays for each section, explore the diverse avant-garde movements that emerged after the end of the Empire, from vividly colored Expressionist paintings to hyper-realistic works of the New Objectivity and to the international art, championed by certain art dealers, whose push toward abstraction had a strong influence on paintings and sculptors in Germany. The catalogue then delves more deeply into politics and war, studying, through the lens of masterworks, the course of events that led from Germany's defeat in 1918 to the rise of militant nationalism and a second defeat in World War II and the equivocal situation of the visual arts in Germany in the aftermath of the war.
Hardcover; 239 pages
