To see aspects of the new objectivity in Darmstadt from April 6, 2025
The new objectivity is a European style that got its name with the Mannheim exhibition from 1925 and still bears today. Gustav Hartlaub, the then director of the Mannheimer Kunsthalle, showed courage for future visions by giving space to the work of the post-expressionists, vermes, idyllic and surface painters, the winged, sober, to the real work of the painters and image tallers of time and thus had space for time.
For the current occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mannheim exhibition from 1925, the Netuschil gallery in Darmstadt shows an ambitious exhibition project on the art of the Weimar years in Darmstadt, which has long been planned. The work of 26 artists in the region is represented under the title "Strong and Floor". The large-scale show on the new objectivity in the former residence city of Darmstadt, which was between the two world wars, from 1918 to the takeover of the Nazis in 1933, the capital of the People's State of Hesse, is a large Darmstadt exhibition event this year.
The Netuschil gallery is now devoting itself with this show, with a predominantly sales inventory, the time between the two world wars. At over 120 exhibits, the exhibition shows the large span of the style of neuromantic-painting still lifes in virtuoso-used technology by Georg Breitwieser and Hans Vigormetter to time and socially critical work by Karl Deppert and Alfred Springer.
The exhibition is accompanied by several parallel events, guided tours, readings, a 20s revue, lectures, according to the presentation of the intellectual group of artists of the "Animalists" and the finissage and can be seen until May 31, 2025 during the usual opening hours, Thursday and Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Title photo: Alfred Springer, family reunion, lithography, 1928
