The cool Look
12 Jun - 06 Sep 2015
THE COOL LOOK
Graphik Art of the New Objectivity
12 June – 6 September 2015
The cool Look // The term "Neue Sachlichkeit" or New Objectivity was coined by then-Director Gustav Hartlaub in 1925 for an exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Artists of the emerging movement, such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, wanted to stand apart from the Expressionists and their idiosyncratic, expressive colours and shapes. Instead they sought naturalistic and veristic presentations of form. Artists like Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf preferred aloof, factual representations. Landscapes and political themes played significant roles in the movement, as did starkly honest portraits.
The exhibition features prominent exponents of New Objectivity represented in the Kunsthalle's Prints and Drawings collection, such as Conrad Felix Müller, Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, Alexander Kanoldt and Xaver Fuhr. The preparation of this part of the early 20th century prints and drawings collection catalogue was sponsored by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and the Ernst von Siemens Kulturstiftung.
Graphik Art of the New Objectivity
12 June – 6 September 2015
The cool Look // The term "Neue Sachlichkeit" or New Objectivity was coined by then-Director Gustav Hartlaub in 1925 for an exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Artists of the emerging movement, such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, wanted to stand apart from the Expressionists and their idiosyncratic, expressive colours and shapes. Instead they sought naturalistic and veristic presentations of form. Artists like Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf preferred aloof, factual representations. Landscapes and political themes played significant roles in the movement, as did starkly honest portraits.
The exhibition features prominent exponents of New Objectivity represented in the Kunsthalle's Prints and Drawings collection, such as Conrad Felix Müller, Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, Alexander Kanoldt and Xaver Fuhr. The preparation of this part of the early 20th century prints and drawings collection catalogue was sponsored by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and the Ernst von Siemens Kulturstiftung.