Sunday, November 26, 2006

Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s

Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. "...With harsh candor and biting humor, the portraits in the exhibition dissect a Weimar demimonde of prostitutes and profiteers, war veterans and war widows, performers and poets. The Verists themselves were part of this shattered world, mingling in the crowd with former aristocrats, middle-class doctors, and businessmen. Their powerful images serve as mirrors to a glittering yet doomed society. With Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the end of the Weimar Republic, artists lost their teaching positions, their work was banned, and many of them went into exile."

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