Neue Sachlichkeit
Neue Sachlichkeit:
see new objectivitynew objectivity(Ger. Neue Sachlichkeit), German art movement of the 1920s. The chief painters of the movement were George Grosz and Otto Dix, who were sometimes called verists.
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Neue Sachlichkeit
a current that arose in the 1920’s in German painting and graphic art. A reaction against the individualistic rebellion and formalistic extremism of expressionism, the Neue Sachlichkeit movement was related to another European artistic movement of the same period, neoclassicism. Its general principles were similar to those of Italian metaphysical painting and French neo-Ingresism.
The members of the Neue Sachlichkeit sought to counteract the ideological chaos of bourgeois society and the hectic pace of modern life by creating models of a crystal clear, mystical, would-be world. By depicting such an artificial world with the utmost clarity and detail, some of the artists, including A. Kanoldt, C. Mense, and G. Schrimpf, unwittingly expressed the alienation of the individual from a cold, mechanized reality. Other members of the Neue Sachlichkeit, using exaggerated forms of artistic expression, imparted to their works a grotesque quality and deliberate social criticism. Such socially critical works were produced by Otto Dix and G. Grosz.
REFERENCES
Reingardt, L. “Novaia veshchestvennost’ i ridzhionalizm.” In the collection Modernizm … [2nd ed.]. Moscow, 1973. Pages 208–16.Roh, F. Nach-Expressionismus. Leipzig, 1925.
Schmied, W. Neue Sachlichkeit und magischer Realismus in Deutschland: 1918–1933. Hannover, 1969.