The Age of Cold Reason. New Objectivity in German Art and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
📅 Tuesday, 20 January, 5:30 PM
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🗣️ Event in Latvian
Continuing the theme of the recently concluded exhibition dedicated to the Bauhaus school, we will turn our attention to the cultural background and intellectual atmosphere in Germany in which this school emerged. In the early 1920s, new trends became apparent in German art – a rejection of expressionist subjectivity and a turn toward an analytically clear perception of reality. Art historian Franz Roh gave these tendencies the name Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). The first exhibition of this movement took place in Mannheim in 1925. Today, as researchers and museums mark the centenary of this exhibition, the phenomenon is being reconsidered from a broader perspective – not only within the framework of visual art, but as a significant cultural phenomenon of the era that permeated various artistic disciplines and German cultural life as a whole. These issues will be discussed with Dr. art. Natālija Jevsejeva.
About the lecturer
Dr. art. Natālija Jevsejeva is an exhibition curator and art historian, author of several publications. Her main research topic is European and Latvian modernism.
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