Neue Galerie Exhibition Focuses on ‘New Objectivity,’ From an Era Sobered by Economic, Moral, and Political Catastrophe

The exhibition aims to elaborate upon ‘a coherent chapter in art history … [and] the Weimar Republic’s cultural, political, and social complexities.’

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Otto Dix, 'Reclining Woman on a Leopard Skin,' 1927. Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. © 2025 Artists Rights Society, New York. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Digital File Copyright Cornell University

An exhibition that recently opened at the Neue Galerie, “Neue Sachlichkeit/New Objectivity,” has a sister show in Germany at Kunsthalle Mannheim, “The New Objectivity; A Centennial.” As the title of the Mannheim exhibition intimates, it’s been a hundred years since a historian, critic, and curator, Gustav F. Hartlaub, mounted an overview on its premises of a cadre of contemporary artists who practiced “a new naturalism.”

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