Jugendstil / Art Nouveau

  Ca. 1895-1914 Parallel developments in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Belgium, France, Austria (Secession)  Reaction against historicism of 19th century  Decidedly new style, focusing on ornamental, vegetative forms and influenced all arts

Jugendstil

Bauhaus

  School of architecture, art, and crafts Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimar (1925 in Dessau)   Closed by the Nazis in 1933 Revived in Chicago in 1937 as New Bauhaus by Mies van der Rohe (Gropius in Boston)  Aimed to unify the arts, technology, and science

Bauhaus

Expressionism

 Ca. 1900-1925 (in art, literature, and music)  Expression of spiritual self and of emotional events (contrary to impressionism)   Focus on strong colors and on form Most important groups: Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter

Franz Marc

New Objectivity/Neue Sachlichkeit

   Art movement in the 20s Reaction against Expressionism Focus on the realistic depiction of the world (verism)  Representatives in art: Otto Dix and George Grosz

Christian Schad

Dada

 International art movement founded by Hugo Ball (and Richard Hülsenbeck, Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara) in 1916 in Zürich  Rejection of all conventional, bourgeois art and life  Focused on simultaneity in art: impression and expression of things observed and things felt without logic or cause, including the subconscious (pre-surrealist)

Raoul Hausmann