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Carl Grossberg and New Objectivity
Olaf Peters

In June 1925, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub opened an era-defining exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim titled “New Objectivity – German Painting since Expressionism,” which now counts as one of the most important ‘stations of the modern’ in Germany. Through this exhibition, the term New Objectivity established itself as the label for the realistic and representational, but stylistically and thematically very heterogeneous, kind of painting that had become widespread after the First World War. This concept can thus be thought of as one of …