Published on the occasion of the exhibition The New Objectivity – A Centennial Anniversary at Kunsthalle Mannheim this substantial bilingual catalog celebrates one hundred years of the New Objectivity movement, the sharp-eyed, unsentimental art born in the social and political turbulence of Weimar Germany.
Across 408 richly illustrated pages, the volume traces the rise of this realist and often unsettling vision of modern life through the works of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, and their contemporaries. Essays by leading scholars explore the roots and meaning of the movement, from its critique of expressionism to its engagement with photography, architecture, and mass culture.
The catalog reexamines the canonical narrative by bringing to light the contributions of women artists and forgotten figures who shaped the visual language of the interwar years. Themes of gender, urban life, political disillusionment, and the cool precision of modern seeing unfold through more than 350 color illustrations, archival materials, and newly commissioned research.
A comprehensive and visually compelling publication, The New Objectivity – A Centennial Anniversary offers both a scholarly resource and a vivid portrait of one of the 20th century’s most distinctive artistic sensibilities, where realism met irony, and clarity became its own form of resistance.
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