This picture depicts a man looking sullen and smoking a cigarette. During the Weimar period, its art was heavily influenced by the society at that time. This portrait reflects the living conditions of that time.
An altered image of hitler severing a chicken
This is an altered picture of Hitler severing a chicken. During that time period, people tried different styles of art rather than sticking to original styles. They did that because they wanted to abandon tradition art styles as they questioned the values of traditional art that displayed strength and authority, especially because of how the government ran things during the time.
A portrait of several people with pale complexions doing different things.
This is a portrait of several people who have pale skin, each doing something e.g. drinking coffee, playing chess. But they are emotionless while doing so. This could be a representation of how people were unhappy with the government at the time, but they still compromised, hence the sullen expressions.
A portrait of a man walking through a battlefield
This is a portrait by Otto Dix, and he was a man that had been haunted by war experiences. He wanted to show his experiences and what he thought about the war through paintings.
A portrait of some people with distorted faces sitting around a table
This is a portrait of several men sitting around a table. You can observe that their facial features are mutated, arranged differently. This portrait could be a representation of how disorientated people felt living during this post-war era, and a new government was elected but not everyone liked it.
A portrait of two soldiers
This represents the way the government operated, since this was only drawn in black and white. The fact that it is in black and white shows that the government didn’t have any mercy, things were either right or wrong and there were no exceptions.
A portrait of a man feeling cold
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
This portrait depicts a graveyard. This portrait is done in monotone colours, which might represent peoples’ feelings about the war and its many deaths, and how people still remembered that during the Weimar period.
A poster of a masked woman
This is another portrait that represents what people had gone through and were going through during that time, and how their minds were inhabited with dark thoughts and were ‘masked’ with the misery that was formed over that time.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
