Degenerate Art & Berlin’s ‘Carnivalesque Nightlife’ of the 20s
“It was a golden age marked by an appetite for change, rebirth: Germans welcomed American jazz, and made advancements in science and technology, arts and design, literature and fashion.
They embraced mass-production, the machine and the “Neue Frau”—the independent and emancipated modern woman.” (Wall Street Journal)
The Wall Street Journal previews US art exhibition “New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933,” including images of Berlin’s ‘carnivalesque nightlife’ before it was destroyed by the rise of Hitler.
