Max Beckmann
Chas-Laborde
Otto Dix
Dolbin
Heinrich Ehmsen
Lilo Friedlaender
Rudolf Grossmann
George Grosz
Karl Holtz
Karl Hubbuch
Jeanne Mammen
Gertrude Sandmann
Rudolf Schlichter
Gerd Wollheim
Richard Ziegler
Streets and Faces 1918-1933. One emphasis in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie is the art of the Weimar Republic, in particular the field of graphic art. As contemporary witnesses, artists documented and commented on the political struggles and social changes of those years with a sharp eye and a deft pen; it was a time when Berlin was developing into a scintillating big city of entertainment after the world war and revolution.
One emphasis in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie is the art of the Weimar Republic, in particular the field of graphic art. As contemporary witnesses, artists documented and commented on the political struggles and social changes of those years with a sharp eye and a deft pen; it was a time when Berlin was developing into a scintillating big city of entertainment after the world war and revolution. Not without sympathy, artists traced the deep lines that a struggle to survive had etched into the faces of people chasing after happiness on the city's boulevards, at its bars, or in the gloomy dance halls of the working men's pubs.
This exhibition with circa 60 works from our own collections, supplemented by some loans, will show works on paper by artists including Max Beckmann, Chas-Laborde, Otto Dix, Dolbin, Heinrich Ehmsen, Lilo Friedlaender, Rudolf Großmann, George Grosz, Karl Holtz, Karl Hubbuch, Jeanne Mammen, Gertrude Sandmann, Rudolf Schlichter, Gerd Wollheim and Richard Ziegler. Up to the present day, their skill as draftsmen has shaped our picture of that epoch: between expressionist, cosmopolitan demonism and objective velocity, an affirmation of modernity and the shadow of dictatorship, and rebellion and redeployment.
Karl Arnold – Hans Baluschek – Max Beckmann – Paul Busch – Chas-Laborde – Otto Dix – Dolbin – Heinrich Ehmsen – Michel Fingesten – Lilo Friedländer – Robert Genin – Erich Godal – Rudolf Grossmann – George Grosz – Werner Heldt – Karl Holtz – Karl Hubbuch – Jeanne Mammen – Otto Möller – Gertrude Sandmann – Rudolf Schlichter – Ines Wetzel – Heinrich Vogeler – Gert H. Wollheim – Richard Ziegler
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Opening March 9th
Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst
Fotografie und Architektur Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128 10969 Berlin
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