27 September 2024 – 23 February 2025

Modern Times ‒ Pictures of the 1920s

Museum für Neue Kunst

The traumas of war, revolution and political radicalisation, democracy, women's suffrage, freedom and individuality, abject poverty and unbridled wealth: the 1920s was an era brimful of contradictions and supposed incongruities. Works by Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz or Elisabeth Voigt reflect various facets of life during the interwar period – on the streets, in the factories, in cafés and the cabarets. Above all, they focus on those people who were on the lowest rung of society’s ladder. A whole century later, the same topics are once more acute. The exhibition presents artworks ranging from Expressionism to the New Objectivity held by the Lindenau Museum Altenburg and the Museum für Neue Kunst, supplemented by contemporary artistic positions.