In 1925, Gustav F. Hartlaub coined the term "New Objectivity" in an eponymous exhibition. 100 years on, this exhibition is scrutinised critically and reconstructed digitally. In addition to works by key figures such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz, the new exhibition presents overlooked female artists such as Anita Rée and Lotte Laserstein. This publication promises visual immersion in a formative stylistic epoch, and provides insights into current research on New Objectivity.The scope will also be extended to include Switzerland and Italy, and to works of the 1930s and 1940s.The epochal term “New Objectivity” became synonymous with the cultural awakening of the 1920s, and with the rationalism and objective precision to be observed in art as well as architecture, design, photography and literature at that time.
