The exhibition From Expressionism to the new objectivity. Avant-gardes in Germany, in the Governor’s Palace of Parma, proposes 40 works by the major representatives of this cultural and artistic current, developed in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, coming from the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal (Germany), which hosts one of the most impressive collections of German Expressionism and artistic trends of the period after the First World War.

The exhibition itinerary is developed in two main sections.

The first focuses on German Expressionism, presenting paradigmatic works mostly from the group of artists of Die Brücke (The Bridge) of Dresden, such as Kirchner, Heckel, Mueller, of the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Knight), including Kandinskij, Marc, Jawlensky, Macke and Der Sturm (The Tempest), the art and gallery magazine based in Berlin, with authors such as Davringhausen, Beckmann, Grossberg.

The second one offers the overview of the aesthetic changes in the post-war years, when artists such as Hofer, Viegener, Dix, Ernst, Adler, representatives of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) created, under the influence of the new Rationalism and Functionalism, the “Metaphysical Painting” and the Neo-Classicism of the so-called “Ritorno all’ordine” developed in Italy, a new artistic atmosphere that reflects the disillusionment of the generation that experienced the war and the consequent loss of human lives and the destruction of European cities.

“The exhibition – says the curator, Lorand Hegyi – thanks to the generous and highly professional collaboration with the Director of the Von Der Heydt Museum, Dr. Gerhard Finckh and his colleagues, proposes a study of such an important artistic movement that more than 100 years after his birth still sends an aesthetic and ethical message that is extremely direct and essential through an empathic language that effectively transmits touching, dramatic and spiritual messages”.

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