Exhibiton
| 1945-1949 Continuity or New Beginning?
| 1950-1959 Dispute about the Image of Man
1960-1979 Contemporaneousness - Trauma of the Past
| 1980-1989 Manic Normality in Germany
The exhibition begins with the question of Continuity or New Beginning. It shows how German artists reacted to the breach of civilization by the National Socialists and to the Second World War during the time between the “unconditional surrender” and the founding of the two German states in 1949. Many of them took up artistic traditions from the pre-Nazi period again. This continuity contradicts the view of the historical situation as the “Zero Hour”. Nevertheless many artists nourished the idea that it was a new beginning.
