The Golden Age of the Weimar Republic saw many changes in the cultural life of Germany. In this gallery you can see different artworks painted by artists who were involved in expressionism, an artistic movement, in which the image is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist's inner feelings or idea.
Bauhaus Artwork
This was painted by Paul Klee who is a Swiss painter of German nationality and was one of the leaders of the German cultural flowering of the 1920s. Paul Klee was taught at Bauhaus, the influential German school of modernist art and design; however Bauhaus school was shut down by the Nazis during 1933.
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins was painted by Otto Dix. Otto Dix was also a leader together with Paul Klee. It is said that Dix painted this artwork on German politics in response to the Nazis' dismissing him from his teaching post at Berlin Academy.
Composition VIII
Painted by Wassily Kandinsky. This was painted while he taught at the Bauhaus, this work illustrates how he synthesized elements from Suprematism (art movement focused on geometric forms) and Constructivism (art movement originated in Russia, which reflects on the modern industrial world).
Self Portrait
This is a self portrait of Max Beckmann. Throughout the course of his career, he has painted about 85 self portraits. Some of the earlier artists who were affected by his artworks were like George Grosz and Otto Dix.
Eclipse of the Sun
Eclipse of the Sun was painted by George Grosz, who is one of the principal artists associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, along with Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. His drawings and paintings from the Weimar era criticize what he viewed the German society.
Dada Movement
The dada movement or dadaism was an artistic movement which originated in Zurich during the First World War. The dada artists were rebellious and despised war, rejected tradition and discarded capitalist middle class values. Dada at in Germany was largely centred in Berlin.
