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  • You couldn’t sell them the clothes— my father was the first to realize this. But it was better to throw the stuff away than to support the Jews in their dirty _____ business, thus possibly helping them in their despicable social climbing. For the Jews dealt in secondhand clothes in order to emigrate to America. They _____ arrived there as Yossel Tuttmann or Moishe Wassershtrom and soon earned enough dollars to change their names. Wassershtrom became Wondraschek, of _____ course, and eventually von Draschek, and finally they’d come back to Europe as Barons von Draschek and buy themselves a hunting ground in the Tirol or _____ Styria (Rezzori 195).
  • “despicable social climbing” of the Jews lays the groundwork for a non-intensive Anti-Semitism to turn into something much more prevalent
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  • The German Expressionism movement began in 1905, but it was not until after World War I that it evolved into the political statement that ultimately became the source of its destruction.
  • Two well-known German Expression artists, August Macke and Franz Marc, were killed and those who survived returned from the experience disillusioned, depressed, sometimes maimed and often shell-shocked.
  • Parties from both the extreme left and extreme right were bitter political enemies that shared one common goal; to overthrow the current government.
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  • The poverty and feeling of betrayal and humiliation that followed the signing of the Versailles Treaty affected all levels of German society. Artists and citizens alike were ready to discard all of the old-fashioned ideals. Expressionism became a new spiritual attitude that reflected the corruption of the upper classes and the despair of the common man.
  • Prior to the War, Expressionism painting had concentrated on celebrating the natural world and spirituality. But after the War, Expressionism painting became dark and politically centered.
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  • "In Germany, Expressionism became synonymous with the rejection of the Western ideals of naturalism and came to embody the very idea of modern and revolutionary art."
  • Expressionism represents the artist’s personality and interior perception imposed on the visual reality of the objects depicted. The objects in Expressionism paintings are often distorted, painted in vivid colors, and are composed of strong, bold lines.
  • Expressionism incorporates other styles such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstraction.
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  • The Expressionism movement was centered in Germany from 1905 until the time of its destruction in the late 1930s. The end of the first world war in 1918 brought the disappearance of the ruling dynasties from the political scene and Germany became a Republic. The collapse of the structure of ruling power was expected to bring with it a new world. But the artistic and political ideology of Expressionism peaked in 1923. By the end of that year, politically motivated attacks against modern art had begun.
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  • 1. The Utopia of Nature - for the Brücke artists the landscapes and nudes frolicking in the outdoors they depicted epitomized nature as the antidote to the factory work and frustrations experienced by those living in the cities. The humans in the paintings are in harmony with nature.
  • 2. The Big City - the cabarets, migrant population, prostitutes and circus performers who composed much of the street life of the big city (mainly Berlin) were studies in alienation.
  • 3. Portraits and Self-portraits - Self-portraits were a means of exposing the inner self and were never flattering. Almost all of the subjects, whether the artists themselves or others, were characterized by melancholy expressions.
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  • 4. Apocalypse & War - Ludwig Meidner depicted the devastation of war prior to 1914. And all of the artists who served in combat were irrevocably scarred by the experience.
  • 5. Disillusionment & Revolution - after the war some artists turned to religious themes. Biblical suffering became a metaphor for the suffering of the German people. The defeat, uncontrollable economic chaos, the hungry, maimed and wounded, and orphaned children were common themes.
  • 6. Old Utopia: New Harmony - After their initial political activity, many of the Brücke artists retreated to country studios seeking a harmony they could not find in the cities. They sought a calmness and balance in their work that had previously been characterized by tension and violence.
  • 7. Toward a New order - By the end of the 1920s the artists had found that the political revolution was headed in the opposite direction of an artistic revolution. Some of the artists pioneered a new style that portrayed diffidence and skepticism. But the fascination with the night life of the big city and the marginal and often grotesque people who inhabited it remained a major theme.
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  • Adolph Hitler did not plan a career in politics when he moved to Vienna in 1908. His great dream at that time was to devote his life to art...either as a painter, a theatrical designer or an architect.
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  • Up to 50,000 poems were written daily in Germany as well as in Britain during the first month of the War. [E1] But it is, unfortunately, difficult to find German memoirs of the First World War that come anywhere near the relative objectivity of British memoirs. [E1]
  • Martin Travers, in his book on German novels of the First World War, points out that the political atmosphere in Weimar Germany effectively prevented any truly objective memoirs from receiving wide readership[
  • Among the fiction production we remember “All Quiet on the Western Front ” [E1] [I1] [F1][S1], ‘a political work by Erich Maria Remarque, that was intended as a rebuttal of the "nationalist myth" of war represented by others authors’. The author himself said that he belonged to a generation “von Krieg zerstoert wurde - auch wenn sie seinem Granaten entkam” ( a generation destroyed by war, even when surviving bombshells).
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  • E. G. Lengel says: “Any study of the First World War should include an examination of a wide variety of war memoirs, including some of those less well known. Anyone who reads these memoirs and is able to keep in mind that they do not always provide objective accounts of the war can learn a great deal about why World War One was such a shattering experience for all Europeans, both soldiers and civilians.
  • most of them did not express Remarque's pessimism. Although none of the survivors were ever again the same as they had been in 1914, every soldier had changed in a different way. Some who survived the war became dedicated to pacifism. Others looked forward to the next war. Most, however, never entirely made up their minds.”
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