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Input (English): Context: Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884  December 27, 1950) 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 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity ("Neue Sachlichkeit"), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism., Alexander Kanoldt ( 29 September 1881 -- 24 January 1939 ) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity . Kanoldt was born in Karlsruhe . His father was the painter Edmond Kanoldt , a late practitioner of the Nazarene style . After studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe he went to Munich in 1908 , where he met a number of modernists such as Alexei Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter . He became a member of the Munich New Secession in 1913 , with Jawlensky and Paul Klee . After military service in World War I from 1914 to 1918 , the still lifes Kanoldt painted show the influence of Derain and an adaptation of cubist ideas . By the early 1920s Kanoldt developed the manner for which he is best known , a magic realist rendering of potted plants , angular tins , fruit and mugs on tabletops . He also painted portraits in the same severe style , as well as geometrical landscapes . In 1925 he was made a professor at Breslau Academy , a post he held until 1931 . During this time he came into conflict with the Bauhaus faction at the Academy , and he was increasingly at odds with the avant garde . From 1933 until his resignation in 1936 he was the director of the State School of Art in Berlin . With the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933 Kanoldt attempted accommodation , painting in a romantic style , but nonetheless many of his works were seized by the authorities as degenerate art in 1937 . He died in Berlin in 1939 ., George Grosz (July 26, 1893  July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1956 he returned to Berlin where he died., The New Objectivity (in ) 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 in Mannheim, who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a post-expressionist spirit. 
As these artistswho included Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Groszrejected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism., Subject: alexander kanoldt, Relation: movement, Options: (A) expressionism (B) new objectivity
Output (English): expressionism