Title: World War I and the Weimar artists
Description: Elemental forces and mechanical power -- Otto Dix: fighting for a lost cause (art versus nature) -- George Grosz: the irate dandy (art as weapon in the class struggle) -- Max Beckmann: the tragic king (art as a search for meaning -transcendental objectivity) -- Oskar Schlemmer: Adam transformed into Prometheus by geometry (transcendental anatomy).
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Neue Sachlichkeit (Art), Psychology, Art and the war, Influence, German Art, Artists, Biography, Art, german, Modern Art
Places: Germany
Time periods: 20th century