Art Term

New Objectivity

New Objectivity is the English translation of 'Neue Sachlichkeit', a German modern realist movement of the 1920s, described by one of its founders as ‘new realism bearing a socialist flavour’

Christian Schad
Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (1929)
Lent from a private collection 2000

© Christian Schad Stiftung Aschaffenburg/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn and DACS, London 2023

George Grosz
A Married Couple (1930)
Tate

© DACS, 2023

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