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"Strasse (Avenue des Champe-Elysees)," Aenne Biermann, c. 1928.

Biermann (1898-1933) was a self-taught photographer whose career was cut short by liver disease, and whose legacy fell victim to the Holocaust.

Born to a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family, and marrying a wealthy textile merchant, she experimented with photography by taking photos of her own children. As she progressed, she began to increasingly become more avant-garde, experimenting with form and perspective, and eventually becoming a major figure in the New Objectivity movement, a Weimar-era art style that emphasized practical engagement with the world.

Here she takes a photo of a frequent sitter, actress Annaliese Schlesser, and double-exposes it with an inverted image of Paris' Champs-Elysee. Thus we have her face superimposed with radiating lines from the center bottom, and giving up an arresting image.

Her early death was bad enough, but her family fled Germany ahead of the Nazi party, and much of her body of work was destroyed during the Holocaust. Now work by Biermann is rare & extremely expensive, but what remains is studied and praised today. A prestigious photography award in Germany is named for her, keeping her legacy alive.

From a private collection.

#Art #AenneBiermann #Photography #NewObjectivity #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #Herstory

Otto Dix💫
#art #ottodix #newobjectivity #mastoart

"Self Portrait with Champagne Glass," Max Beckmann, 1919.

Beckmann (1884-1950) was a German artist, printmaker, sculptor, and writer, commonly associated with the Expressionist style although he mostly identified with the New Objectivity movement, related to Expressionism but rejecting its introverted emotionalism. He was a big success in Weimar Germany, but his work was judged "degenerate" by the Nazis and it was removed from museums. He fled to Amsterdam, and then to the US upon receiving a professorship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Well-read in psychology and philosophy, his art often showed a quest for the Self, so he did a lot of self-portraits. While on the surface this shows him as an elegant dandy, in a reflection of Dutch Golden Age painters showing jolly drinkers, here he shows himself looking unhealthy, with a skull-like face and strange pallor, and his body almost twisted and distorted. The cartoonish laughing man in the background is almost sinister and disturbing. It's a strange view, perhaps showing a sense of the decadence of the Weimar republic and perhaps a sense of the growing fascist presence.

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #MaxBeckmann #Expressionism #NewObjectivity #BannedByTheThirdReich #PortraitMonday

Otto Dix, Night over the City, 1913

#Art #NewObjectivity

Willy Otto Zielke, “Glass Abstraction VIII”, 1929, vintage gelatin silver print, 22.6 × 17.1 cm ★ Poland/Germany ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/photographs-pf1120/lot.52.html ⦾ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Цильке,_Вилли #WillyOttoZielke #WillyZielke #modernphotography #abstractphotography #blackandwhitephotography #neuesachlichkeit #newobjectivity #constructivism #glass #cylinders #forms #geometric #prisonersofconscience #POC #victimsofpunitivepsychiatry #1920s

Curt Querner: Agitator,
oil on canvas 1931

#CurtQuerner (1804-1976) was a representative of the #NewObjectivity movement and a #painter of #realism. he developed a unique perspective on the world due to his parents' deafness. At the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1926, he studied under renowned artists such as #RichardMüller, #GeorgLührig, and #OttoDix.

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#MastoArt #MastoArtist #fediart #portraitpainting #portraitart

#portrait #painting of Herwarth Walden by Robert Delauny, 1923.
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The #painter
#RobertDelaunay was a French painter (1885-1941), who started as a self-taught #artist in the style of Neo-#Impressionism, and later developed his own style in Orphic #Cubism, also known as #Orphism
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The #sitter:
#HerwarthWalden was a German #writer and #gallerist (1878 - 1941) and important supporter of the German avant-garde, including #Expressionism, #Futurism, #Dadaism #NewObjectivity.

#PortraitCommunity #art