1. Art & Culture of the
Weimar Republic
Catrina Chen
AP Art History

2. Weimar Republic
1919-1933
Social Democratic Party (SPD)
Treaty of Versailles
unpopular with both left & right
hyperinflation, unemployment
The Dawes Plan (1924)

3. Art
German Expressionism
Neue Sachlichkeit
(New Objectivity)
Dada
Otto Dix, Portrait of the
Journalist Sylvia von
Harden (1926)

4. Neue Sachlichkeit
New Objectivity
Americanism
Post-Expressionism
verism (N.O.)
classicism
Magic Realism Giorgio de Chirico, The Song of Love (1914)

5. Dada in Germany
Berlin
First International Dada Fair
(1920)
Cologne
Early Spring Exhibition (1920)
Hanover
The Merzbau

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

8. John Heartfield

10. George Grosz

11. George Grosz

13. Otto Dix
Der Krieg (The War)
1924

14. Raoul Hausmann!
The Art Critic (1919-20)

15. Kurt Schwitters
The Merzbau
1933

16. Architecture & Design
Expressionism
Bauhaus
Der Ring

17. Walter Gropius,
Monument to the March
Dead (1921-22)
Caspar David Friedrich,
Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice), 1824

18. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
!
Friedrichstraße Skyscraper
Project (1921)

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

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

21. Karl Schneider, flats in Hamburg (1929)

22. Mies van der Rohe

23. Marianne Brandt
1924

24. Literature
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha (1922)
Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye to Berlin (1939), The
Berlin Stories

25. Film
Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)
Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue Engel (1930)

26. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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

33. Der Blaue Engel

34. 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

35. 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

36. Quiz
5. This is an example of:
A. printmaking
B. photomontage
C. photography
D. assemblage