1920s - 1933
New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
description
New Objectivity (in German, Neue Sachlichkeit) – an art movement that emerged in the second half of the 1920s in Germany as another outbreak of neoclassicism in Europe, went out with the advent of Nazism in 1933. This movement included painting, architecture, photography, cinema, music and literature, opposed the avant-garde, in particular, the formal extremes of expressionism. The new materiality is a common artistic platform for Magic Realism and Metaphysical Painting.
The definition was put into use by the director of the Mannheim Art Museum Gustav Hartlaub in 1923.
Key artists: Georg Gross, Francois Barrault, Werner Payner and others.
Key paintings:
Chair with Bottle. 1928. Werner Payner.
La Langoureuse. 1932. Francois Barrot.
Baby with Umbilical Cord. 1934. Otto Dix.