Arcadia and Metropolis

by Marz, Roland; Schuster, Peter-Klaus (CON); Peters, Olaf (CON); Daemgen, Anke (CON); Hollmann, Andrea (CON)

• ISBN13: 9783791330419
• ISBN10: 3791330411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Prestel Pub

Summary

This publication presents a selection of important paintings from the Nationalgalerie Berlin, one of Germany's major collections of twentieth-century art. Major Expressionist and Neue Sachlichkeit artists represented here include Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Arranged thematically, and with in-depth explanatory texts, the paintings trace the evolution of German art as it moved from the mountains to the city, from optimism to bitter disillusionment. Essays by key scholars and curators examine these artists' varied responses to their country's abrupt encounter with industrialization and urbanization.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Preface	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
From the Kronprinzen-Palais to the Neue Nationalgalerie	p. 13
Arcadia and Metropolis: From Expressionism to Verism	p. 19
Between Revolution and Reaction: The Modern Art Controversy in Germany 1905-1937	p. 33
Critics of the Avant-Garde: Artists, Writers, Dealers, Collectors	p. 47
The Expulsion of the Artistic Avant-Garde: The Nationalgalerie Berlin and "Degenerate" Art	p. 62
Plates and Commentaries
Arcadia--Lost Paradise	p. 71
From the Moritzburg Ponds to Potsdamer Platz The Artists' Association Brucke in Dresden and Berlin	p. 87
Metropolis--Society at the Abyss	p. 117
Posters	p. 144
Artists' Biographies	p. 146
Index of Exhibited Works	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 160
Index	p. 161
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