Khan Academy Static

Germany was defeated and exhausted in 1918 at the end of WWI. The equally exhausted victors imposed harsh terms on Germany. It was forced to forfeit its overseas colonial possessions, to cede land to its neighbors, and to pay reparations. As demobilized troops returned, German cities filled with unemployed, often maimed veterans. The Socialists briefly seized power and by the early 1920s hyperinflation further destabilized the nation. Neue Sachlichkeit or the New Objectivity cast a cold sharp eye on Modern Germany’s hypocrisy, aggression, and destitution even as extremists on the political right consolidated power. The National Socialists or Nazi Party won the chancellorship in 1933 and quickly used art and architecture as a means build the myth of a pure German people shaped by the land and unsullied by modern industrial culture. This tutorial looks at the ways that competing political ideologies each used art for its own purposes.

14024_Troost_House_of_German_Art_and_the_Entartete_Kunst_exhibition.html

14018_Moholy_Nagy_Composition_A_XX.html

14016_Feininger_Cathedral_for_the_Bauhaus.html

14023_Schad_Self_Portrait.html

14017_Klee_Twittering_Machine.html

14020_Umbo_The_Roving_Reporter.html

14021_Sander_Portraits.html

14022_Dix_Portrait_of_the_Journalist_Sylvia_von_Harden.html

14019_Moholy_Nagy_Climbing_the_Mast.html