BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1734@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170623 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171016 DTSTAMP:20170821T115053Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-portraying-nation -germany-1919-1933/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919 –1933 DESCRIPTION:Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 \n\nTate Liverpool\n23 June – 15 October 2017\n£12.00 / £9.50\n\nTate Liverpool presents the faces of Germany between the two World Wars seen through the eyes of pain ter Otto Dix (1891–1969) and photographer August Sander (1876–1964). P ortraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 brings together two artists whose works document the glamour and misery of the Weimar Republic\, a time of r adical extremes and political and economic upheaval.\n\nPortraying a Natio n: Germany 1919–1933\, which exhibits Dix and Sander as a pair for the f irst time\, reflects a pivotal point in Germany’s history\, as it introd uced democratic rule in the aftermath of the First World War. The period w as one of experimentation and innovation across the visual arts\, during w hich both artists were concerned with representing the extremes of society \, from the flourishing cabaret culture to intense poverty and civilian re bellions.\n\nFeaturing more than 300 paintings\, drawings\, prints and pho tographs\, Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 unites two complementa ry exhibitions. Otto Dix: The Evil Eye explores Dix’s harshly realistic depictions of German society and the brutality of war\, while ARTIST ROOMS : August Sander presents photographs from Sander’s best known series Peo ple of the Twentieth Century\, from the ARTIST ROOMS collection of interna tional modern and contemporary art.\n\nThe exhibition focusses on the evol ution of Dix’s work during his years in Düsseldorf\, from 1922 to 1925\ , when he became one of the foremost New Objectivity painters\, a movement exploring a new style of artistic representation following the First Worl d War. Dix’s paintings are vitriolic reflections on German society\, com menting on the country’s stark divisions. His work represents the people who made up these contradictions in society with highlights including Por trait of the Photographer Hugo Erfurth with Dog 1923\, Self-Portrait with Easel 1926\, Reclining Woman on a Leopard Skin 1927 as well as a large gro up of lesser known watercolours.  Dix’s The War 1924 will also form a k ey element of the exhibition\, a series of 50 etchings made as a reaction to and representation of the profound effect of his personal experiences o f fighting in the First World War.\n\nSander’s photographs also observe a cross-section of society to present a collective portrait of a nation. S ander commenced his major photographic project People of the Twentieth Cen tury in 1910\, an ambitious task that occupied him until the 1950s. The pr oject resulted in more than 600 images in which people were categorised in to what he described as ‘types’\, including artists\, musicians\, circ us workers\, farmers and\, in the late 1930s\, images of Nazi officers. Mo re than 140 photographs from the ARTIST ROOMS collection will be displayed to create a large-scale timeline of Weimar Germany\, placing individual s ubjects against a backdrop of the era’s tumultuous cultural and politica l history.\n\nPortraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 is made up of Otto Dix: The Evil Eye\, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen\, Düsseldorf and AR TIST ROOMS: August Sander\, an exhibition of works from the ARTIST ROOMS c ollection of international modern and contemporary art.\n\nThe ARTIST ROOM S collection is jointly owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate o n behalf of the public\, and was established through The d’Offay donatio n in 2008 with the assistance of the Heritage Memorial Fund\, Art Fund and the Scottish and British governments. It is shared with UK museums and ga lleries including Tate\, National Galleries of Scotland and a network of A ssociate venues through ARTIST ROOMS On Tour\, which is a partnership unti l 2019 with lead Associate Ferens Art Gallery\, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England\, Art Fund and the National Lottery t hrough Creative Scotland.\n\nOtto Dix: The Evil Eye is curated by Dr Susan ne Meyer-Büser\, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen\, Düsseldorf\, France sco Manacorda\, Artistic Director and Lauren Barnes\, Assistant Curator\, Tate Liverpool. ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander is ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/01/unnamed-e1484740602285.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR