new objectivity

Jul 30

1920s Paris edited by Rainer Metzger

Simon

‘Before the war they were revolutionaries; now they are bywords’ (strapline advertising Gertrude Stein which Metzger says also applies to Picasso or Matisse) ‘It became the period of being twenty-six. During the next two or three years all the young men were twenty-six years old.’ (Gertrude Stein)...

painting art photography history bauhaus dada paris romania karlsruhe art nouveau ernest hemingway surrealism max ernst berlin ulysses james joyce cologne walter benjamin new objectivity john eberson modigliani séraphine de senlis séraphine louis langston hughes jean cocteau kiki de montparnasse darius milhaud john dos passos picasso le corbusier mona lisa dr jean dalsace folies bergeres daniela gregori andré breton art brut francis picabia pierre jeanneret le train bleu jacques haïk british museum shakespeare and company place charles-félix chaïm soutine florence henri zelda fitzgerald fernand leger marie laurencin marie-thérèse walter french art marc chagall henry crowder alexander calder nice neue sachlichkeit giorgio de chirico montmartre archibald macleish litterature le grand rex duchamp tubism brassaï dadaism sylvia beach henri sauvage la revue nègre paris de nuit paul éluard pierre chareau man ray viktor shklovsky christopher isherwood american vogue stephanie barron sara murphy joan miro rene clair george gershwin oedipus rex colette yves tanguy ezra pound bernard bijvoet guernica isidora duncan henry miller le chien jaune r. mutt studio lecram jean auguste dominique ingres citroen ford madox ford theory of prose georges bataille chanel no. 5 max morise tristan tzara josephine baker marcel duchamp jean badovici eileen gray henri darricarrère coco chanel daria martin georges simenon sinclair lewis modern art constantin brancusi die dame emmanuel radnitzky annie dalsace guillaume apollinaire olga khokhlova charles baudelaire salvador dalí isadora duncan sonia delaunay henry ford nadja hemingway alfred barr joyce art deco apollo musagète roaring twenties l.h.o.o.q. nancy cunard brancusi weimar republic alastair duncan taschen arthur rimbaud dalí cole porter inspector maigret paul colin carolin meister wilhelm uhde auguste bluysen hadley richardson henri matisse sabine eckmann villa savoye marguerite matisse stravinsky jazz age finnegan's wake gyula halász christie's austro-hungarian empire gertrude stein sidney bechet luis buñuel alberto giacometti andré vigneau f.scott fitzgerald lee miller argentine

Jul 29

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022)

Simon

‘For the first time since the eighteenth century, England is making a real contribution to an international art.’ (Nicolete Gray, impresario of the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition, 1936. But was it?) ‘The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars’ by Frances Spalding is a...

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Jun 19

Exhibition: ‘August Sander’s People of the 20th Century’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Part 2

Dr Marcus Bunyan

Exhibition dates: 27th February - 28th June, 2026 Curator: Judy Ditner, the Richard Benson Curator of Photography and Digital Media     August Sander (German, 1876-1964)Painter [Heinrich Hoerle]1928, printed c. 1990-1999Gelatin silver print10 3/16 x 7 7/8 in. (25.9 x 20cm)Societe...

time psychological reality photography memory portrait light beauty exhibition existence fine art photography victim of persecution [miss oppenheim] august sander menschen des 20. jahrhunderts august sander rural bride social realism photography german portrait photography august sander unemployed menschen des 20. jahrhunderts workers' council from the ruhr region "test your strength" showman the painter couple [martha und otto dix] painter [willi bongard] gunther sander young mother middle-class august sander painter [willi bongard] rural bride people with disabilities and the unemployed road workers in the ruhr region erich sander art blart august sander usherettes august sander three generations in a fairground caravan august sander painter [heinrich hoerle] victim of persecution [margarete (grete) trier oppenheim] august sander the person of the soil photographic series gallery website paper manufacturer and his wife red cross nurse unemployed sailor usherettes village schoolteacher political prisoner [erich sander] wholesale merchant and his wife august sander the painter couple [martha und otto dix] august sander vagabonds political prisoner august sander peddler social landscape of germany in the first half of the 20th century august sander young farmers yale university art gallery august sander victim of an explosion august sander the notary works on paper varnisher victim of persecution august sander village schoolteacher august sander the architect couple [dora und hans heinz lüttgen] the industrialist [max spindler] young farmers black and white photography proletarian mother august sander victim of persecution three generations in a fairground caravan august sander young photographer [gunther sander] august sander philosopher [max scheler] archetypal figures august sander young farmer louis faurer unemployed and looking at rockefeller center august sander raoul hausmann as a dancer august sander proletarian mother august sander political prisoner [marcel ancelin] august sander road workers in the ruhr region august sander woman from a fairground caravan political prisoner [marcel ancelin] august sander red cross nurse three generations of the family august sander workers' council from the ruhr region august sander painter (marta hegemann) august sander's people of the 20th century august sander woodcutter painter [heinrich hoerle] august sander victim of persecution [margarete (grete) trier oppenheim] archive of modern humanity young farmer the sage august sander varnisher august sander rural brother and sister august sander the dadaist raoul hausmann [with hedwig mankiewitz and vera broïdo] august sander young mother middle-class portrait photography victim of an explosion the notary people of the 20th century august sander typologies painter (marta hegemann) august sander working students victim of persecution [mr. leubsdorf] young photographer [gunther sander] street photographer woman from a fairground caravan the architect couple [dora und hans heinz lüttgen] portrayal of marginalised individuals august sander street photographer august sander three generations of the family august sander political prisoner [erich sander] august sander victim of persecution [mr. leubsdorf] marginalised peoples labor activism august sander victim of persecution [miss oppenheim] august sander "test your strength" showman rural brother and sister august sander the sage the person of the soil german photographer vagabonds woodcutter august sander unemployed sailor new objectivity august sander paper manufacturer and his wife august sander political prisoner the dadaist raoul hausmann [with hedwig mankiewitz and vera broïdo] august sander the industrialist [max spindler] august sander wholesale merchant and his wife raoul hausmann as a dancer marcus bunyan august sander

Jun 16

Exhibition: ‘August Sander’s People of the 20th Century’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Part 1

Dr Marcus Bunyan

Exhibition dates: 27th February - 28th June, 2026 Curator: Judy Ditner, the Richard Benson Curator of Photography and Digital Media      August Sander (German, 1876-1964)Artist’s Partyc. 1930, printed c. 1990-1999Gelatin silver print10 3/16 x 7 3/8″ (25.8 x 18.7cm)Societe Anonyme...

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