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Romanesque art was the first artistic movement to encompass the whole of Western Europe, though with regional varieties. Germany was a central part of the movement, though German Romanesque architecture made rather less use of sculpture than that of France. With increasing prosperity massive churches were built in cities all over Germany, no ...
The Cologne Progressives was an art movement and were an informal group of artists based in the Cologne and Düsseldorf area of Germany. They came together following the First World War and participated in the radical workers' movement .
Adolf Hitler during his speech at the opening of the 1st Great German Art Exhibition 1937. The Great German Art Exhibition, which spanned the first floor, the upper floor and the two-story "Hall of Honour" in the centre of the building, was promoted as the most important cultural event in Nazi Germany. The show was conceived as a sales ...
The Great German Art Exhibition promoted the genre of sculpture at the expense of painting. [50] As such, the nude male was the most common representation of the ideal Aryan; the artistic skill of Arno Breker elevated him to become the favourite sculptor of Adolf Hitler.
Pages in category "German art movements" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beuron school;
Figurative Constructivism is an art movement that arose principally in Germany. The term was introduced by Franz Seiwert in 1929 using the phrase "gegenständlichen constructive", and this was subsequently taken up by Gerd Arntz and then by art historians more generally. [1] It is closely related to the development of the Isotype. As Seiwert ...
The art was raw, provocative, and harshly satirical. Bertolt Brecht, a German dramatist, was an early critic of Expressionism, referring to it as constrained and superficial. Just like in politics Germany had a new parliament but lacked parliamentarians, he argued, in literature there was an expression of delight in ideas, but no new ideas, and ...
Padua's focus on traditional art was rather unusual as he had not received any completed academic training. He was recognized as an official artist in Nazi Germany , after 1933. He was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions, from 1938 to 1944, in the House of German Art, in Munich , with 23 works, including still lifes and female nudes.