The Metropolitan Life in German Artists’ Legacy of the Pre-war and Interwar Period

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

German art, Expressionism, new objectivity, Berlin urban life, Weimar artists

Abstract

Urban life became one of the dominant themes in Weimar art, as a city had been the main living space for a human of the XX century. Being one of the main centres of political and cultural life in Germany, Berlin cannot but attracted artists from all over the country. The article compares the peculiarities of perception of the metropolitan life by expressionists and the representatives of new objectivity. If for the expressionists it was important to look at urban environment in a new way, to reflect its vitalism and dynamism, the new objectivity artists sought to capture the facts of social reality, taking a sober look at the surrounding environment and revealing its most unattractive features. Nevertheless, both movements contributed to the development of new vision of city space, having produced thousands of works devoted to urban issues.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maria Belikova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - The Metropolitan Life in German Artists’ Legacy of the Pre-war and Interwar Period
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 200
SN  - 2352-5398
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