In the Shadow of Hitler. German Art-Post-World War I to the Present

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This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard Richter, Germany's most venerated living artist, and studies late-20th-century figures such as the mythic Joseph Beuys. As the series draws to a close, the program looks at new architectural projects such as the Reichstag Dome and Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, and meets some of the city's emerging artists as well as Bruno Bischofberger, the dealer who brought Andy Warhol and Pop Art to Europe.

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50 min

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Date of Publication

[2011], c2010

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