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Image of the Golden Years - Coggle Diagram
Image of the Golden Years
Art
The main movement art was expressionism.
This expressionist ideas originiated with artists such as Kandinsky, Grosz and Franz Mark.
Expressionist artists believe that their works should express meaning rather than physical reality
Architecture
The Bauhaus in Dessau (1919) was a major development in modernist art, especially in their architecture department
Taught students to incorporate steel, concrete and glass into their designs and make the function of an object / building optimal and minimal
Literature
Novelists and poets made a new form of writing, focusing on a character's internal mental state
A common theme is the revolt against parental authority
The Lead writer of the period was Thomas Mann, who was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1929
Film and Cinema
Berlin became an important centre for world cinema
It was later exploited by Nazi propaganda, but important people such as Lang were jewish
They had expressionist techniques
Music
Famous composers include Hindemith and Schoenberg
They also were influenced with expressionism, as they attempted to convey powerful emotions
Theatre
Sets and plays relied on abstraction and symbolism to convey their message
A more experimental aspect of theatre has become more political, attacking capitalism, nationalism and war
Brech and Weill developed a new form of music theatre that symbolised Weimar Germany (Threepenny Opera)