1923, Georg Baumgarten, The Scorn -- Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg)
From the museum label: In national-conservative circles in the Weimar Republic, modern art was considered "Jewish-French" and "Internationalist-Bolshevist". Baumgarten, which is close to the Berlin "Sturm" circle, reflects this hubris. In memory of the First World War, he shows a collection of spitefully drooling grimaces who are entangled in a mechanism of destruction. In the pale, glowing fury of color, guns appear and the malicious faces seem to turn into skulls.
1923, Georg Baumgarten, The Scorn -- Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg)
From the museum label: In national-conservative circles in the Weimar Republic, modern art was considered "Jewish-French" and "Internationalist-Bolshevist". Baumgarten, which is close to the Berlin "Sturm" circle, reflects this hubris. In memory of the First World War, he shows a collection of spitefully drooling grimaces who are entangled in a mechanism of destruction. In the pale, glowing fury of color, guns appear and the malicious faces seem to turn into skulls.