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The Berlin Secession [1] was an art movement established in Germany on May 2, 1898. Formed in reaction to the Association of Berlin Artists, and the restrictions on contemporary art imposed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, 65 artists "seceded," demonstrating against the standards of academic or government-endorsed art.
The early date of completion, at the end of March 1848, could explain the imagery used. At that time, there were still few ideas about the future of Germany and its form of government. Accordingly, the painting is politically restrained and refers neither to the popular movement nor to a crown (of a German emperor). It is clearly less militant ...
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;
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 ...
On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Art in Post-War Germany (German: Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege) is a 1990 book-length essay by the German writer and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. An English translation was published in 2017 by far-right Arktos Media. [1]
The New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub , the director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim , who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a ...
During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists ...
It represented an era of creative ferment in the society, politics, culture, art, literature, and architecture of Germany. It also roughly coincided with the late Victorian and Edwardian eras in the British Empire , the Gilded Age in the United States , the Belle Époque in the Third French Republic , and the Silver Age in the Russian Empire .