Part of the Struggle. Art and politics in the Weimar Republic - ACE159.3

Actor Dix describes his own Jugend in der Großstadt / Youth in the City. Actor as Otto Nagel walking in workers’ housing area. Commentary describes interaction between German and Russian artists in the 1920s. Actor Nagel sketching, talks about coming from a poor working class family and wanting to fight against these conditions. Paintings including Park Bench at Wedding (1927). Actor Nagel says the working classes have to change the world themselves. Park Bench at Wedding. Captions: "1921. Inflation." "Invest your money in dada!" "1923. German Economy Collapses." Photographs of impoverished families. Drawing by Grosz. Caption: "Red Group Formed – Grosz, Heartfield, Schlichter, Nagel" while commentary also names Dix and Otto Griebel. Some Malik Verlag publications – works by Gorki and Upton Sinclair – featuring photomontage by John Heartfield and drawings by Grosz. Cover for Etienne de la Boene…. Work by Grosz: Für das Volk die Not der Kriege / For the rich the booty – for the people the misery of war. Actor Grosz describes Verism and talks about the duty of Communist artists to unmask the bourgeois system. Grosz’s The Pillars of Society / Stützen der Gesellschaft (1926). Actor Grosz saying that the purpose of art is to prepare the worker for the class struggle. The Pillars of Society. Actor Nagel reading newspaper and A I Z (Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung). Paintings with Nagel saying that he wants his work to help his fellow workers, and that art should inspire.