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World War I and the Weimar Artists: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer

Arts & Photography

Eberle, Matthias

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In the 1920s Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil: its citizens were disillusioned by defeat in World War I, the failure of revolution, the disintegration of their social system, and inflation of rampant proportions. Curiously, as this important book shows, these years of upheaval were also a time of creative ferment and innovative accomplishment in literature, theater, film, and art.Glitter and Doom is the first publication to focus exclusively on portraits dating from the short-lived Weimar Republic. It features forty paintings and sixty drawings by key artists, including Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and George Grosz. Their works epitomize Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular the branch of that new form of realism called Verism, which took as its subject contemporary phenomena such as war, social problems, and moral decay. Subjects of their incisive portraits are the artists€™ own contemporaries: actors, poets, prostitutes, and p

Glitter And Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s

BURUMA, IAN

REWALD, Sabine

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death. For months two captives of the Soviet Army--Otto Guensche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet--were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler--from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor--as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Today, the 413-page original of Stalin's personal biography of Hitler is a Kremlin treasure and it is said to be held in President Putin's safe. The only other copy, made by order of Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1959, was deposited in Moscow Party archives under the code number 462A. It was there that Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, two German historians, found it. Available to the public in full for the first time, The Hitler Book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of Hitler, Stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the European continent.

The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Otto Guensche and Heinze Linge, Hitler's Closest Personal Aides

Henrik

Bristol Park

Nicht Gott, das Volk von Paris hob in der Revolution von 1830 Louis Philippe, den Herzog von Orléans, auf den Thron. Unter seiner Regentschaft, die bis 1848 dauerte, blühte in Paris die moderne, realistische Historienmalerei auf, die innerhalb kurzer Zeit auch in den Nachbarländern Erfolge feierte. Das Selbst- und Politikverständnis des Bürgers prägte nun den Blick auf die Vergangenheit. Und die Maler stützten sich bei ihren Arbeiten auf die Historiker, um die Vergangenheit so wahr wie möglich wiederzugeben. Dieses Buch zeichnet die Entwicklung des 'genre historique' im Westen Europas nach -- und es erzählt die Geschichten hinter den Bildern.

Im Spiegel der Geschichte: Realistische Historienmalerei in Westeuropa 1830-1900 (German Edition)

Hirmer Verlag GmbH

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