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Weimar Classicism ( German: Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after the city of Weimar, Germany, because the leading authors of Weimar Classicism lived there.
Pioneered by the architect Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was the name of an art school located in the city of Weimar. The name was an inversion of hausbau (‘house design’), a clue that Gropius wanted to revolutionise the way houses and their contents were imagined. The Bauhaus school operated from 1919 to 1933, when it was closed down by the Nazis.
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Weimar Classicism was shaped by a cosmopolitan worldview, an enlightened spirit and an, oftentimes, highly disparate courtly and civic culture. Famous figures like Goethe, Herder and Schiller, and the ducal dynasty of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach left their indelible mark on this period of cultural history. Exterior view of Goethe National Museum ...
It is this picturing that makes Neue Sachlichkeit, once dismissed, look current again. “New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919–1933,” organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, will be on view at LACMA Oct. 4, 2015– Jan. 18, 2016.
Dec 7, 2014 · Visual Weimar, 1919–1933. September 02 – December 7, 2014. This exhibit contains 25 works by German and Austrian artists created during the years of the Weimar Republic, Germany’s first democracy, which was founded shortly after the end of World War I.
This dramatic painting depicts Native Americans returning home at dusk with a captured US Calvary horse. Charles Ferdinand Wimar's interest in Native cultures developed after moving as a teenager from Germany to St. Louis, Missouri. He collected Native American objects, from arrows to beaded jackets, that he proudly installed in his studio.
Siegburg, 1828-Saint Louis, 1862. Print page. The painter Charles Ferdinand Wimar, who was devoted to portraying the American Wild West, was born in Germany and went to Saint Louis with his family at the age of fifteen. Saint Louis, then the centre of the American fur trade, witnessed a constant stream of people and objects from the West and ...
