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Very much inclined towards the view we've gone backwards since the Frankfurt Kitchen.

"Self Portrait with Champagne Glass," Max Beckmann, 1919.

Beckmann (1884-1950) was a German artist, printmaker, sculptor, and writer, commonly associated with the Expressionist style although he mostly identified with the New Objectivity movement, related to Expressionism but rejecting its introverted emotionalism. He was a big success in Weimar Germany, but his work was judged "degenerate" by the Nazis and it was removed from museums. He fled to Amsterdam, and then to the US upon receiving a professorship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Well-read in psychology and philosophy, his art often showed a quest for the Self, so he did a lot of self-portraits. While on the surface this shows him as an elegant dandy, in a reflection of Dutch Golden Age painters showing jolly drinkers, here he shows himself looking unhealthy, with a skull-like face and strange pallor, and his body almost twisted and distorted. The cartoonish laughing man in the background is almost sinister and disturbing. It's a strange view, perhaps showing a sense of the decadence of the Weimar republic and perhaps a sense of the growing fascist presence.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

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A portrait of the New Objectivity school. An elegantly dressed man in a dinner jacket sits with a champagne glass in one hand and a cigar in the other. Although his body faces right, his head is turned and looks somewhere off out our left. Despite his elegant appearance, his skin is tight and unhealthy-looking, his coloring off, his body contorted. The wall behind him is bright orange, with a mirror or picture in a gold frame. Over his shoulder, on the right, half of another man's face can be seen, with a cartoonish, smiling expression.

Otto Dix, Night over the City, 1913

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Willy Otto Zielke, “Glass Abstraction VIII”, 1929, vintage gelatin silver print, 22.6 × 17.1 cm ★ Poland/Germany ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/photographs-pf1120/lot.52.html ⦾ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Цильке,_Вилли #WillyOttoZielke #WillyZielke #modernphotography #abstractphotography #blackandwhitephotography #neuesachlichkeit #newobjectivity #constructivism #glass #cylinders #forms #geometric #prisonersofconscience #POC #victimsofpunitivepsychiatry #1920s

Конструктивистско-баухаусная абстрактная фотография двух стеклянных мензурок со сколами и двух стеклянных палочек. // A constructivist-Bauhaus abstract photograph of two chipped glass cylinders and two glass rods. // Willy Otto Zielke, “Glass Abstraction VIII”, 1929, vintage print

Curt Querner: Agitator,
oil on canvas 1931

#CurtQuerner (1804-1976) was a representative of the #NewObjectivity movement and a #painter of #realism. he developed a unique perspective on the world due to his parents' deafness. At the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1926, he studied under renowned artists such as #RichardMüller, #GeorgLührig, and #OttoDix.

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Curt Querner, a representative of the New Objectivity movement and a painter of realism, led an impressive life. Born on April 7, 1904, in Börnchen and passed away on March 10, 1976, in Kreischa, he developed his unique perspective on the world due to his parents' deafness. After training as a locksmith, he worked in various factories before starting his studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1926.

Querner financed his studies through various jobs and walked from his hometown of Börnchen to the art academy. Influenced by the political developments of his time, he left the academy prematurely in 1930 to engage in political activities. He joined the artist group Asso and the Communist Party (KPD), but later distanced himself from political party work.

During the 1930s, Querner lived on unemployment benefits, even though he painted intensively every day.

During World War II, Querner served in the Wehrmacht and subsequently spent several years as a prisoner of war. After his return to Börnchen in 1947, as his Dresden apartment had been destroyed by bombs, he struggled with financial difficulties. However, in the late 1940s, significant paintings were acquired by renowned galleries

Querner was represented in many important exhibitions in the Eastern Zone and later in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From the 1960s onwards, he was rediscovered by the official art scene of the GDR as a proletarian-revolutionary artist, leading to a growing recognition of his works.

“The ugly, the strange, and the gruesome.” This persistent undercurrent in German art of the early 20th century is explored in a LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition with works that reflect the Weimar years... and war. https://hyperallergic.com/798511/war-bloodshed-and-the-german-grotesque-lacma/?fbclid=IwAR14-p3ImE4a-H4dduKH3_eVdNcBbbqYUZSmCTQWibsamk3jlKDSLYgvNlE
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Lithograph of grotesque "Industrial Farmers" created in 1920 by artist Georg Scholz. (photo credit: Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic

#portrait #painting of Herwarth Walden by Robert Delauny, 1923.
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The #painter
#RobertDelaunay was a French painter (1885-1941), who started as a self-taught #artist in the style of Neo-#Impressionism, and later developed his own style in Orphic #Cubism, also known as #Orphism
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#HerwarthWalden was a German #writer and #gallerist (1878 - 1941) and important supporter of the German avant-garde, including #Expressionism, #Futurism, #Dadaism #NewObjectivity.

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The picture shows a portrait painting of Herwarth Walden by Tobert Delauny. It was painted in 1923.

❄️Scenes of Winter by Austrian painter Franz Sedlacek. The artist, whose work often took a gloomier tone, faught for the Nazi regime during WWII, battling on the front lines in Poland Russia and Norway. However he has been credited with saying “In my work I can say with colors what I think of my contemporaries without being sent to a concentration camp” … a surprising statement to be sure. He was declared missing in 1945, but was not pronounced dead until 1972! #scenesofwinter #franzsedlacek #art #artist #painter #artists #artworld #austrianpainter #newobjectivity #magicalrealism #winterscenes #ski #skiier #skiing #wintergames #watercolorpainting #oilpainting #huile #winterwonderland #kunst #künstler #peinture

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