Neue Sachlichkeit

German

Etymology

Literally, “new factuality/objectivity”, title of a 1925 art exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim organized by German art historian, critic and curator Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, showing works of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and others.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔɪ̯ə ˈzaxlɪçkaɪ̯t/

Proper noun

die Neue Sachlichkeit f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Neuen Sachlichkeit)

  1. (art, architecture, film, photography, literature) New Objectivity (German artistic movement following WWI)

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