The Cold Gaze

Exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk
October 14, 2022 to February 19, 2023

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome! A sweeping journey through the roaring and explosive 1920s in the Weimar Republic. Centre stage, the significant movement of "Neue Sachlichkeit" and its sober realism – ranging from the harsh and satirical to the razor-sharp, almost clinical. Sharing the limelight: groundbreaking photographer August Sander.

Crises and turbulence, but also a period of wild and violent artistic innovation. After the First World War, German society during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) experienced years of deep poverty and political unrest, but also a short-lived flourishing of democracy and a strong culture of freedom. The period, which came to an abrupt end with the Nazi takeover in 1933, was characterized by both euphoric creation and a constant sense of impending dissolution. A “fragile” state that translated into a rich and varied cultural life.

(Text: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art)

For more information, visit the website Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

In the gallery you can see a selection of original photographs on "Neue Sachlichkeit" from the ullstein bild collection and exhibition views with the Ullstein exhibits (© Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Poul Buchard).

You will find the corresponding dossier at ullstein bild.

The interview with Florian Ebner, Head of the Photography Collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition stop in Paris, can be found here.