Art & Culture of the Weimar Republic

Catrina Chen AP Art History

Weimar Republic

1919-1933

Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Treaty of Versailles

unpopular with both left & right

hyperinflation, unemployment

The Dawes Plan (1924)

Art

German Expressionism

Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)

DadaOtto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von

Harden (1926)

Neue Sachlichkeit

New Objectivity

Americanism

Post-Expressionism

verism (N.O.)

classicism

Magic Realism Giorgio de Chirico, The Song of Love (1914)

Dada in Germany

Berlin

First International Dada Fair (1920)

Cologne

Early Spring Exhibition (1920)

Hanover

The Merzbau

Hannah Höch!!Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany !!(1919)

John Heartfield

George Grosz

George Grosz

Otto Dix Der Krieg (The War)

1924

Raoul Hausmann!The Art Critic (1919-20)

Kurt Schwitters The Merzbau

1933

Architecture & Design

Expressionism

Bauhaus

Der Ring

Walter Gropius, Monument to the March

Dead (1921-22)

Caspar David Friedrich, Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice), 1824

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe !

Friedrichstraße Skyscraper Project (1921)

Bruno Taut, doors in the Hufeisensiedlung (1925-1933)

Bruno Taut, Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Wilskistrasse, Berlin (1926-31)

Karl Schneider, flats in Hamburg (1929)

Mies van der Rohe

Marianne Brandt 1924

Literature

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha (1922)

Christopher Isherwood

Goodbye to Berlin (1939), The Berlin Stories

Film

Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)

Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue Engel (1930)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNaaogT8fs

Der Blaue Engel

Quiz

1. All of the following are Neue Sachlichkeit artists EXCEPT

A. Otto Dix

B. Hannah Hoch

C. Franz Marc

D. George Grosz

2. Bauhaus is influenced by:

A. Constructivism

B. Modernism

C. De Stijl

D. All of the above

Quiz

3. Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin inspired which musical?

A. Cabaret

B. Fiddler on the Roof

C. Chicago

D. West Side Story

4. Metropolis (1927) was directed by:

A. Sergei Eisenstein

B. Fritz Lang

C. Robert Wiene

D. Josef von Sternberg

Quiz

5. This is an example of:

A. printmaking

B. photomontage

C. photography

D. assemblage