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A book titled Sieh Dir Die Menschen An! is shown at an angle on a white surface. The black cover features a painting in the New Objectivity style of two men in caps looking upwards. The title is printed in large, white, sans-serif font, with English and German subtitles describing the book's focus on type portraits in the Weimar period.
A photograph of the back cover of a black book standing on a white surface. The cover features bold white text in both German and English. The main title reads, SIEH DIR DIE MENSCHEN AN! and LOOK AT THE PEOPLE!, followed by descriptive paragraphs. At the bottom are a barcode and the logos for Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
The cover of an art book titled Sieh dir die Menschen an! featuring a painting in the New Objectivity style. The painting shows the portraits of two working-class men in caps against a dark, reddish background. One man looks directly at the viewer with a stern expression, while the other looks away with his mouth slightly open in apprehension.
An open book displaying a colorful, expressionist watercolor painting of a dense crowd. The central figures are two women in 1920s-style hats and coats with pale, heavily made-up faces. They are surrounded by the varied and somewhat caricatured faces of men and a small child.
An open art book viewed from above, displaying pages 170 and 171 against a white background. On the left is a monochrome sketch of a woman with glasses holding a baby, sitting next to a man with his back turned. On the right is a colorful painting of a Black man in a shirt and tie leaning on a stack of books, in front of a busy, collage-like background filled with text and symbols.
An open art book on a white surface, displaying a two-page spread with paintings from the 1920s. On page 248 is Otto Griebel's painting of a muscular, tattooed man in a cap. On page 249 is Christian Schad's painting of a tattooed man sitting in front of a steel lattice structure.
An exhibition poster for an art show titled Sieh dir die Menschen an! (Look at the People!). The left side features a grayscale painting of a person with short hair holding their hands to their face in a distressed pose against a gold background. The right side is white and has the exhibition title and details in German and English, identifying the theme as The New Objectivity type portrait in the Weimar period, with logos for partner museums at the bottom.
A two-page spread of a book. The left page shows the table of contents in English. The right page shows the beginning of the foreword in German, under the bold, black heading VORWORT.
A page from a book showing a painting on the left and German text on the right. The painting is a New Objectivity portrait of a young person with short, light-brown hair and striking blue eyes, gazing forward with a serious expression. They are in an attic-like room with a hanging lamp. The text on the right has a large, bold title: SIEH DIR DIE MENSCHEN AN! DAS NEUSACHLICHE TYPENPORTRÄT IM KONTEXT DER WEIMARER ZEIT by Anne Vieth.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page, numbered 70, contains a numbered list of text in German. The right page features a large, sepia-toned photograph of a woman with short, wavy hair resting her chin on her hands, looking away with a thoughtful expression. The numbered text continues above her portrait.
A book page layout featuring a portrait painting by Christian Schad on the left and a block of German text on the right. The painting shows a woman with styled, wavy, light-brown hair and makeup from the 1930s. The text on the right has a large, bold, black title that reads DIE ERFINDUNG DES MEDIENGESICHTS FÜR DIE BILDERWELTEN DER WEIMARER REPUBLIK.
A two-page spread from an academic text, showing pages 86 and 87. The top of the left page features the title in a large, bold, black font: THE INVENTION OF THE MEDIA FACE FOR THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC'S WORLD OF IMAGES. The author is listed as ERIK KOENEN. The rest of both pages is filled with columns of text.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page, numbered 88, contains numbered paragraphs of text in German. The right page features a colorful painting of a person with short dark hair, a pale face, red lipstick, and a monocle, wearing a red and black checkered turtleneck. They are sitting in a golden chair at a small marble table, holding a smoking cigarette. A cocktail glass and matches are on the table against a pink background.
A two-page book spread comparing a scientific illustration to a realistic painting. On the left, a line drawing shows a shirtless, stocky man from the front and side, labeled Pyknischer Typ. On the right is Otto Dix's painting of Dr. Julius Hesse, a man with a similar physique, wearing a suit and standing in a factory with large machinery.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page, 152, features a vintage black-and-white advertisement for Elida Kassetten cosmetics, showing a man and a woman looking at an open gift box. The right page, 153, displays a 1927 painting by Grethe Jürgens of a man in a suit and checkered vest, holding a cigarette and staring intensely forward. Both pages have captions and descriptive text below the images.
A two-page book spread. On the left, page 154, is Otto Dix's 1925 painting, Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber, showing her in a sleek, high-necked red dress against a dark red backdrop. On the right, page 155, is a black-and-white 1927 German advertisement for Salem cigarettes, featuring a group of revue performers celebrating.
A two-page spread showing two images of same-sex kisses. On the left, a 1929 pencil drawing by Christian Schad, Liebende Knaben, shows two shirtless young men with short hair in an intimate embrace. On the right, a grainy black and white film still from the 1931 movie Mädchen in Uniform shows a close-up of two women kissing.
A composite digital image with a thick red frame, showing a grid of 12 pixelated celebrity mugshots in yellow boxes on the left. On the right, a computer window displays a film script breakdown in German. The background consists of a purple curtain texture and a digitally rendered room with monitors.
Sieh dir die Menschen an!
Das neusachliche Typenporträt in der Weimarer Zeit
€ 30.00
€ 54.00
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Edited by: Ulrike Groos, Dierk Höhne, Anja Richter, Anne Vieth
Author: Jan Bürger, Alina Grehl, Anna Katharina Hahn, Christin Hansen, Erik Koenen, Nadine Metzger, Anne Vieth, Nils Warnecke
German, English
November 2023, 304 Pages, 180 Photos
Hardcover
230mm x 300mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5600-6

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10629 Berlin
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Searching for the Face of a New Time
Whether in the visual arts, literature, cinema, science or fashion-in the crises after World War I, the fascination with "types" was largely influenced by a debate that was pervasive in the Weimar period: the search for the "face of the era." People were looking for new role models, and the portraits by artists of the New Objectivity movement such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel testify to this. Many of the clichéd images, such as those of the "new woman" or the "worker," however, continue to have an effect in the present, reminding us with their classification of individuals of a problem that lives on in today's bigotry.
A broad spectrum of contributors from art history, medical history, media studies, and sociology venture into a detailed investigation of the historical context of the 1920s and the complex interactions between art and its time. An installation developed especially for the exhibition by contemporary artist Cemile Sahin, born in 1990, spans an arc to the present.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Atelier Gerstenberg, Hans Baluschek, Rudolf Bergander, Albert Birkle, Richard Birnstengel, Friedrich Bochmann, Steffi Brandl, Gottfried Brockmann, Friedrich Busack, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Dodo (Dörte Clara Wolff), Erich Drechsler, Kate Diehn-Bitt, Rudolf Dischinger, Otto Dix, Erich Drechsler,Hermann Fechenbach, Conrad Felixmüller, Fred Goldberg, Otto Griebel, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Lea Grundig, Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Hainz Hamisch, Olga Hayduk, Nini und Carry Hess, Heinrich Hoerle, Karl Hubbuch, Lotte Jacobi, Grethe Jürgens, Alexander Kanoldt, Annelise Kretschmer, Bernhard Kretzschmar, Paula Lauenstein, Lotte Lesehr-Schneider, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Jeanne Mammen, Hanna Nagel, Gerta Overbeck, Lotte B. Prechner, Kurt Querner, Anton Räderscheidt, August Sander, Christian Schad, Josef Scharl, Rudolf Schlichter, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, Georg Scholz, Friedrich Seidensticker, Alice Sommer, Cami Stone, Erika Streit, Ernst Thoms, Adolf Uzarski, Kurt Weinhold, Erik Winnertz,Richard Ziegler and Cemile Sahin
EXHIBITIONS
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
December 2, 2023-April 14, 2024
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - Museum Gunzenhauser
May 5-September 1, 2024
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