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.’

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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