by Irina Hiebert Grun (Editor), Johanna Yeats (Author), Maike Steinkamp (Author)
The Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the last building designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been closed a full six years for refurbishment. To mark its reopening the museum is presenting the highlights of its classical modernist collection under the title The Art of Society, 1900-1945. Visionary, critical, resigned or utopian, the paintings and sculptures bear witness to art's dialogue with prevailing social conditions--from the German Empire to the First World War, the Weimar Republic and ultimately National Socialism. The catalogue documenting all works in the exhibition traces the major artistic tendencies during the first half of the 20th century in thirteen chapters. The Art of Society, 1900-1945 offers a renewed encounter with works by Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tamara de Lempicka, Lotte Laserstein, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and many others that is as captivating as it is illuminating.
Author Biography
Irina Hiebert Grun is an art historian and research assistant at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Johanna Yeats is an art and architecture historian. She currently works as curator assistant at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Maike Steinkamp studied art history and literature and works as curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Joachim Jäger is the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Dieter Scholz is a German art historian and curator at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.