![]() ![]() Their works illustrate the critical gaze with which they observed the world in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War II, a time rich in contrasts and disruptions.Īt the heart of new presentation at the Lenbachhaus will be the ‘human condition,’ the vision of the human being. Profoundly shaken, many artists of the Weimar Republic focused on a starkly realistic rendition of reality. ![]() The experiences of the Great War radically changed how people saw the world and their fellow men. Starting in July 2014, these holdings will return to the museum’s grand stage. Haunting portraits and depictions of social life also constitute a major subset of the Lenbachhaus’s “New Objectivity” collection. The engagement with Nietzsche’s philosophy informs Dix’s entire oeuvre, which takes an unflinching look at humankind. ![]() In 1911, the young Otto Dix read Nietzsche’s "Human, All Too Human", a book for “free spirits” from which our exhibition takes its title. ![]()
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