Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) captured a world of raucous nightclubs, smoky cafés, and vibrant street life in her stylized and often critical images.
Abend im Café 1923
This is a painting by Otto Dix
Kleine Sonne (Little Sun), 1969
Hannah Höch: art's original punk
The Superman (1932)
John Heartfield openly attacked Hitler using “art as a weapon”, by producing and distributing many art pieces while remaining under constant threat of assassination by Hitler’s Third Reich. The above piece is entitled “Adolf Hitler The Superman: Swallows Gold And Spouts Junk”.
A Married Couple 1930
George Grosz (1893-1959), said that the watercolour 'A Married Couple' belongs to a series of drawings and watercolours which he executed during the 'twenties up to 1930.
Weimar Republic Society Satire
John Heartfield painted this pictured.
Lonely Metropolitan, 1932
In 1931, Herbert Bayer began a series of photomontages illustrating his own dreams, which included this emblematic image in which the artist’s eyes stare from the palms of his hands, cut off at the wrists and floating mysteriously in the courtyard of a Berlin apartment block.
Lady with red scarf, 1933
This is a painting by Rudolf Schlichter, 1890-1955, belongs to the George Economou collection and has been recently exhibited at Tate Modern in London.
