Искусство Евразии (Dec 2020)
Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub and «New Objectivity»: exhibition, collection, destiny
Abstract
The author of article views the curator activity of famous German art-historian and director of Mannheim Kunsthalle Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub in the context of the collecting and patronage. His interest to actual art has turned to most large-scaled project in the art of Weimar republic, that fixes the bone of new «neorealistic» art in the period between two world wars, that has got a name «New objectivity» after the Hartlaubs exhibition. The aim of article is the study of Hartlaubs role as a gallerist in the awareness of changing, which have took a place in the German art after expressionism and their fixation in the social consciousness by exhibition actual pieces of art and following acquiring of them for different museum collections. For the first time in Russian language tells this article about the rising of interest to the «New Objectivity», the history of the organization of famous exhibition in 1925 and her tourney about Germany, about the problem, that have took a place, also about the contradictions between the participants of two wings inside the movement. Special attention is given to the fate of collection, which was scattered by Nazi.
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