Christian Schad

1894–1982

Christian Schad, ‘Self-Portrait’ 1927
Self-Portrait 1927
© Christian Schad Stiftung Aschaffenburg/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn and DACS, London 2019
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Christian Schad (August 21, 1894 – February 25, 1982) was a German painter associated with Dada and the New Objectivity movement. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I.

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Neue Sachlichkeit

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    Neue Sachlichkeit

    Usually translated as ‘New Objectivity’, Neue Sachlichkeit was a German modern realist movement of the 1920s

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