Novembergruppe
“Umkämpfte Wege der Moderne. Wilhelm Schmid und die Novembergruppe”
Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte, Potsdam (Germany)
Potsdam Museum
Am Alten Markt 9, Potsdam, Germany
The exhibition "Umkämpfte Wege der Moderne. Wilhelm Schmid und die Novembergruppe" is dedicated to the controversial epoch of 1918-1933 and the radical changes during the following period. (link) Some of the artistic pioneers took the 1918/1919 revolution as an opportunity to unite as the "November Group", probably the most prominent political artistic group of the Weimar Republic. These self-proclaimed "revolutionaries of the mind" set out on new paths of artistic expression with their motives, colors and forms, rejecting the old imperial conventions in form and content. The members of the group not only caused a sensation with their revolutionary demand to participate in the new state in all art-related issues. For in the exhibitions - primarily at the Great Berlin [...]