Part of the Struggle. Art and politics in the Weimar Republic - ACE159.4

Actor Grundig talking about showing his painting The Lovers in Dresden: the sexual aspects were widely discussed but there was little talk about the political elements. Actor Nagel says there is a growing audience for art among young workers, particularly if the pictures are shown in places like department store. Paintings of "workers". Actor Nagel says that even this art is dependent on fashion and the art market which calls the new movement the Neuesachlichkeit, New Objectivity. Examples including Otto Dix’s Bildnis der Eltern I (1921). Actor Grosz on how painters are exploited by the rich who will praise art for its aesthetic value, not its politics. Paintings by Grosz, including Country Cousins, Paris (1924).