“Street Life: Weimar Works on Paper, 1918—1933” Exhibition
Ubu Gallery
[Image: Bruno Voigt "Vor de Kneipe" ["In Front of the Pub"] (1933) Watercolor, pen & ink on paper 19 7/8 x 14 3/8 inches (50.5 x 36.5 cm) Dated on recto]
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Ubu Gallery presents Street Life: Weimar Works on Paper, a collection of prints, drawings and publications created during the German Weimar Republic. Featuring works by Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Otto Dix (1891-1969), George Grosz (1893-1959) and Georg Scholz (1890-1945), among others.
In the post World War I period of acute political polarization, a wide range of visual arts—similar in their realistic representation—emerged in the early 1920s as a “new rational vision.” Loosely referred to as Neue Sachlichkeit or “New Objectivity,” Gustav Hartlaub’s 1925 exhibition of the same name solidified this artistic style into a formal genre. New Objectivity sought clarity and definition through a “matter-of-fact” observation of material reality. The result of this approach was a distanced, sober perspective, in antithesis to pre-war Expressionist, Romantic or an otherwise sentimental rendering of the world. This anti-sentimentality lent itself to the satirical, caricatured and critical grotesque, all falling under the rubric of black humor, “…par excellence the mortal enemy of sentimentality” (André Breton, Anthologie de l’humour noir.)
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from March 23, 2015 to June 12, 2015