“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

In the aftermath of the First World War, avant-garde, utopian and idealistic styles were rejected as superficial by German artists who sought more realistic responses to the everyday world of post-war ...

For a handful of years, starting in the mid 1920s, Germany’s doomed Weimar Republic had a period of stability. And that stability is associated with a loose, broad and various movement in the visual ...

Germany’s fragile new democracy was pushed to the brink when nationalist forces marched on Berlin in 1920. The Kapp Putsch briefly overthrew the government, but a nationwide strike cut off power, food ...

THREE years ago the editor of the Atlantic Monthly wrote me a courteous letter, inquiring what objects Germany had in the war. This letter did not reach me until six months ago. Germany’s war aims in ...

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