Splendor and misery in the Weimar Republic
By: edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer ; translation, Jane Michael
Contributors: Peters, Olaf, contributor; Moeller, Stéphanie, contributor; Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969- contributor; Hille, Karoline, contributor; Weinland, Martina, 1956- contributor; Lütgens, Annelie, contributor; Braune, Andreas, contributor; Hirmer Verlag; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783777429335
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: In art; German Art; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Social conditions; History
Other titles: Glanz und Elend in der Weimarer Republik. English.
Description: "From the glamour of the Golden Twenties to the depths of the dark side of a world undergoing rapid change - the penetrating content of works by more than 60 artists recreates the age of the Weimar Republic, big - city life and the entertainment scene as well as the consequences of the First World War and socially controversial topics such as prostitution, political struggle and social tensions. As the first German democracy, the Weimar Republic (1918 - 1933) is regarded as a time of crisis and transition - from the German Empire to the totalitarian regime of National Socialism. Numerous artists not only portrayed these years in their realistic representations, which are ironical and grotesque as well as critical - analytical; they also aimed to comment on the stat us quo and bring about social change. Works from Otto Dix and George Grosz via Conrad Felixmuller and Christian Schad to Dodo, Jeanne Mammen, Elfriede Lohse - Wachtler, famous artists and others waiting to be rediscovered, paint a multi - layered and political picture of the Weimar Republic."
Notes: On the occasion of an exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, October 27, 2017-February 25, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290).

"Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic" : October 27, 2017-February 25, 2018, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Text in English, translated from the German.

Exhibited: "Glanz und Elend in der Weimarer Republik", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, October 27, 2017-February 25, 2018.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Philipp Demandt; title: Landmarks in Politics, Business, and Culture  -- Philipp Demandt; title: Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic: Pictures of the Uneasiness of an Era  -- Ingrid Pfeiffer; title: Verism in Otto Dix and George Grosz: Art and Politics in the New Objectivity  -- Olaf Peters; title: Culture of Spectacle: Entertainment in the Weimar Republic  -- Stéphanie Moeller; title: The Splendor and Miseries of Weimar Germany's New Woman  -- Dorothy Price; title: Paragraph 218 and the 'Women's Matter': Notes on a Subject Which is Still Topical Today  -- Karoline Hille; title: Paragraph 175 and Magnus Hirschfeld  -- Ingrid Pfeiffer; title: A New Start of Utopia?: On Art and Literature in the Weimar Period  -- Martina Weinland; title: 'Her Worries and Rothschild's Money': Women Artists and Their Work for Magazines During the Weimar Republic  -- Annelie Lütgens; title: Opportunities and Achievements of the Weimar Republic -- Andreas Braune.