Pressemitteilung
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Pr essemitteilung Press Release Berlin 21th april 2010 Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz Kupferstichkabinett Seite 1 von 1 Gefühl ist Privatsache. Verismus und Neue Sachlichkeit Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Emotion is a Private Matter. Generaldirektion Presse, Kommunikation und Pictorial Art of Verism and New Objectivity Sponsoring Museum of Prints and Drawings, National Museums Berlin. Stauffenbergstraße 41 23 nd April - 15 th August 2010, Berlin, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin Matthäikirchplatz. Opening Hours: Tue, Wed + Fri 10 am to 6 pm, Thu 10 am to 10 pm, Sat + Presse, Kommunikation Sun 11 am to 6 pm, Monday closed. und Sponsoring Mechtild Kronenberg Press conference: Mi 21. April 2010, 11 h kommunikation@ Opening: Do 22.4.2010, 19 h, Zentrale Eingangshalle smb.spk-berlin.de www.smb.museum Verism and New Objectivity were the dominant art movements during the Weimar Republic. Through their art, artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Presse Max Beckmann, Conrad Felixmüller, Alexander Kanoldt, Franz Radziwill, Anne Schäfer-Junker [email protected] Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Schrimpf, the sculptor Eugen Fon +49 (0)30 266 42 3402 Hoffmann and others reacted to the traumatic experience of the First World Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 3409 War and the utopian ideas of expressionism that had been disrupted by that war. In sharp contrast, their works display a honed eye for the post-war and www.smb.museum/presse post-revolutionary reality with its social misery but also refer to modern civilisation. Their stylistic trademark is a special acuity dominated by the line in depicting their subject in order to capture facts in a documentary, relatively emotionless manner. After the emotional exuberance of expressionism the new slogan was “Emotion is a private matter” (Bert Brecht, 1926). While the verists of this movement (for example Grosz, Dix, Hubbuch, Schlichter) castigated the social inconsistency between the profiteers and losers of the war, nouveau riche glamour and proletarian destitution, a second, more classicist group (Kanoldt, Mense, Schrimpf) expressed their longing for a quiet state of being, removed from time, in enraptured landscapes and figural paintings. The exhibition displays some 130 watercolours and drawings from the extensive collection of the print room and is supplemented by 25 loans, amongst them paintings and sculptures. An inventory catalogue of all works of this part of the collection accompanies the exhibition. Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin sind eine Einrichtung der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. .