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Movement

New Objectivity

Die Neue Sachlichkeit, a German movement of the 1920s that turned away from the emotion of Expressionism to a cool, sharp, often merciless look at life in the Weimar Republic. Otto Dix painted war cripples, prostitutes and profiteers; George Grosz caricatured the bourgeoisie; Christian Schad painted icy, glassy portraits; Max Beckmann built crowded, allegorical scenes. Another wing, the Magic Realists such as Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf, painted still lifes and landscapes of strange stillness. The Nazis branded much of it 'degenerate art' after 1933, and Felix Nussbaum's late works record his persecution.

How to tell it apart: hard outlines, smooth precise surfaces and unsparing realism, often satirical; Expressionism is looser and more emotional.

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Artists

Max Beckmann · Felix Nussbaum · Christian Schad · Otto Dix · Georg Schrimpf · Georg Scholz · Alexander Kanoldt · Carl Grossberg

Best-known works

• “Self-Portrait in Tuxedo” — Max Beckmann, 1927
• “Death Triumphant” — Felix Nussbaum, 1944
• “Still Life with Saxophones” — Max Beckmann, 1926
• “The Synagogue in Frankfurt am Main” — Max Beckmann, 1919
• “Self-Portrait in the Camp” — Felix Nussbaum, 1940
• “Soir.” — Felix Nussbaum, 1942
• “The Two Jews” — Felix Nussbaum, 1926
• “The Secret” — Felix Nussbaum, 1939
• “Swineherd” — Georg Schrimpf, 1923
• “Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card” — Felix Nussbaum, 1943
• “The Wendelsveg” — Max Beckmann, 1928
• “The Refugee” — Felix Nussbaum, 1939
• “Self-Portrait in a Shroud (Group picture)” — Felix Nussbaum, 1942
• “The Iron Bridge (View of Frankfurt)” — Max Beckmann, 1922
• “Self-Portrait with Model” — Christian Schad, 1927
• “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove” — Christian Schad, 1929
• “Halbakt” — Christian Schad, 1929
• “Dr. Haustein” — Christian Schad, 1928
• “Marcella” — Christian Schad, 1926
• “Reclining woman with book and irises” — Max Beckmann, 1931
• “Carnival” — Max Beckmann, 1920
• “Portrait of Minna Beckmann-Tube” — Max Beckmann, 1924
• “Bath Cabin (Green) / Cabana” — Max Beckmann, 1928
• “Hotel Claridge I” — Max Beckmann, 1930
• “Winter picture” — Max Beckmann, 1930
• “Still Life with Fallen Candles” — Max Beckmann, 1929
• “The Skaters” — Max Beckmann, 1932
• “The Dream” — Max Beckmann, 1921
• “Rugby players” — Max Beckmann, 1929
• “Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden” — Max Beckmann, 1923