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New Objectivity in Germany
From May 24 until September 29, 2024 Vienna’s Leopold Museum presented the exhibition Splendor and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany. The show with some 150 exhibits from international museums and private collections, presented in twelve chapters, is already over. Luckily, the valuable catalogue remains available. Five specialists cover topics ranging from the rediscovery of reality between esthetics and ethics to literary observations on objectivity, the philosophy of new objectivity, the “new woman” on Germany’s streets and the new art scene, the portrait of new objectivity in Germany, culture politics and society of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Hans-Peter Wipplinger, editor: Splendor and...
