The Mad Square – Modernity in German Art 1910–37

Overview

The interwar years in Europe were a remarkable time, not least in Germany, where a new democratic Republic arose from the ashes of the First World War, replacing the old monarchy, and exploding with utopian ideas and a never-before-experienced freedom of expression. The artistic and intellectual developments of this period helped to lay the foundations of modernity as we know it, and it’s no coincidence that the movement is referred to collectively, as modernism.

The Mad Square - Modernity in German Art 1910–37 brings together over 200 works of art from the modernist period to the AGNSW and, short of buying a plane ticket to Europe, this may be your only chance to see an exhibition of this calibre. Covering the Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity, it features artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Hannah Höch and El Lissitzky.

The accompanying Berlin Sydney programme of events running alongside is quite astonishing in its breadth and depth, and offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the most pivotal art works of the twentieth century in the context of the culture and society from which they emerged. Do not miss out.