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Aspects of New Objectivity can be seen in Darmstadt from April 6, 2025
New Objectivity is a European style that received its name at the Mannheim exhibition of 1925 and still bears this name today. Gustav Hartlaub, the director of the Mannheim Kunsthalle at the time, demonstrated a bold vision for the future by giving space to the works of the Post-Expressionists, Verists, Idyllists, and Flat Painters—the restrained, sober works of the painters and sculptors of the time, which focused on the materiality of the world—and thus having a formative influence on the style.
To mark the centenary of the 1925 Mannheim Exhibition, the Netuschil Gallery in Darmstadt is presenting an ambitious, long-planned exhibition project on art from the Weimar years in Darmstadt. Titled "Vibrant and Flat," the exhibition features works by 26 artists from the region. This large-scale show of New Objectivity in the former royal residence of Darmstadt, which served as the capital of the People's State of Hesse between the two World Wars (from 1918 until the Nazi takeover in 1933), is a major exhibition event in Darmstadt this year.
With this long overdue exhibition, featuring mostly for-sale works, the Netuschil Gallery is finally dedicating itself to the period between the two World Wars. The exhibition showcases over 120 pieces, demonstrating the wide range of styles from neo-romantic still lifes, painted with virtuoso technique by Georg Breitwieser and Hans Vielmetter, to socially and politically critical works by Karl Deppert and Alfred Springer.
The exhibition is accompanied by several parallel events, guided tours, readings, a 1920s revue, lectures, including a presentation of the intellectual circle of artists known as the "Animalists" and the closing event, and can be seen until May 31, 2025 during the usual opening hours: Thursday and Friday from 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Cover photo: Alfred Springer, Family Reunion, lithograph, 1928
