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Neue Sachlichkeit

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  • The passion of expressionist painting and cinema, the fragmentation grenades of Dada, the idealism of the Bauhaus and realism of Neue Sachlichkeit – these German art movements of the early 20th century did not give way, as in France, to cultural decline but instead burned on into the 1960s and 70s, when Joseph Beuys showed that art can still reach into myth and memory to renew the world.

    Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art Jonathan Jones 2010

  • The blossoming of their studio coincided with the major development phase of both photography and theater; the genesis of their pictorial “language” was influenced not only by epoch-making theatrical innovations in the form of Expressionism and Constructivism, but also by complex movements in photography, such as art photography, straight photography and Neue Sachlichkeit.

    Nini Hess. 2009

  • Similarly, though Sander revered the worker, his chiseled, well-coiffed "Industrialist" is a far cry from the ravenous capitalists in paintings like those of his contemporary Otto Dix, one of the founders of the Neue Sachlichkeit

    Just Regular Volks 2008

  • Similarly, though Sander revered the worker, his chiseled, well-coiffed "Industrialist" is a far cry from the ravenous capitalists in paintings like those of his contemporary Otto Dix, one of the founders of the Neue Sachlichkeit

    Just Regular Volks 2008

  • Likewise, the term "Magic Realism" used to describe the German Neue Sachlichkeit or New Objectivity painting of the 1920's is not completely accurate either.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • Neue Sachlichkeit, 'New Objectivity', embodied by the young Hindemith.

    Spurious 2008

  • And while the artists of the New Objectivity, the Neue Sachlichkeit of the 1920s ” among them Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Georg Grosz ” are associated closely in our minds with the Expressionists, their work is produced in conscious distinction from them.

    Expressions of the Age Fenton, James 2001

  • Perhaps the lustrum beginning in 1921 might be included by extension, although by 1923 the dominant style of the twenties, Neue Sachlichkeit (New

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ULRICH WEISSTEIN 1968

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  • A German post-Expressionist style of art circa 1920s.

    Although "New Objectivity" has been the most common translation of "Neue Sachlichkeit", other translations have included "New Matter-of-factness", "New Resignation", "New Sobriety", and "New Dispassion". The art historian Dennis Crockett says there is no direct English translation, and breaks down the meaning in the original German:

    Sachlichkeit should be understood by its root, Sache, meaning "thing", "fact", "subject", or "object." Sachlich could be best understood as "factual", "matter-of-fact", "impartial", "practical", or "precise"; Sachlichkeit is the noun form of the adjective/adverb and usually implies "matter-of-factness".

    November 23, 2016