For the first time in Italy, 150 works of the Modern German Realism at the Correr Museum of Venice.
From may 2015 the
Museum Correr of
Venice presents a great exhibition, the first event in Italy to explore the themes that characterize the dominant artistic trends of the Weimar Republic:
NEW OBJECTIVITY - Art in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic 1919-1933.
The exhibition features about 150 works of art by more than 40 artists (including paintings, photographs, draquings and prints) and it is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in association with the
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and with the support of 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE.
NEW OBJECTIVITY - Art in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic 1919-1933 gives the visitor a unique chance to discover the art of some less known artists like
Hans Finsler,
Georg Schrimpf,
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen,
Carl Grossberg, and
Aenne Biermann. In the set-up special attention is directed to make a comparison between painting and photography, offering the unique opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between the movement’s diverse media.
In the period between the end of World War I and Nazism arrival, Germany’s first democracy was a laboratory for cultural experiences, witnessing the end of Expressionism, the exuberant anti-art activities of the Dadaists, the establishment of the Bauhaus and the emergence of a new realism.
This new realism has been called in different ways like
Post-Expressionism,
neo-naturalism,
Verism, and
Magic Realism, and has been recognised by the exhibition
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) held in Mannheim in 1925.
The exhibition path is divided into into
five thematic sections:
Life in Democracy and the Aftermath of the War points out the difference of conditions between Germany’s rising bourgeoisie and those suffered most from the war’s effects;
The City and the Nature of Landscape explores the growing disparity between an even more industrialized urbanity and nostalgic longing for the rural world;
Still Life and Commodities focused on a new form of the traditional still life;
Man and Machine examines the artist’s different approaches towards the trasformation and dehumanization effects due to rapid industrialization; lastly,
New Identities: Type and Portraiture shows a new trend in portraiture in which subjects are more represented as social classes rather than individual subjects.
Opening times
Every day from 10am to 7pm
The ticket office closes at 6pm
Tickets
Full price € 12,00
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