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Documents - "Modern Life": Diagnoses, Prescriptions, Alternatives
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1.   Wilhelm II, "True Art" (1901)
This speech on “true art” evinces the social and cultural conservatism of Wilhelm II (1859-1941). As German emperor and public figure, Wilhelm never hesitated to make his opinions known. The 1901....
2.   Hans Rosenhagen, "National Art in Berlin" (1897)
The academicism of Prussian court painter Anton von Werner (1843-1915) eschewed all modern currents....
3.   Lovis Corinth, "The Paintings from the Brandenburg March and the Founding of the Berlin Secession" (1903)
The painter Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) recounts the founding of the Berlin Secession, which saw progressive artists come....
4.   Max Liebermann, "On the Secession Exhibition" (1907)
Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was one of the founders of the Berlin Secession in 1898. Along with other....
5.   Else Lasker-Schüler, "Oskar Kokoschka" (1913)
The first decade of the twentieth century saw the establishment of a self-consciously “modernist” art. In May 1910, Oskar....
6.   Adolf Behne, "Bruno Taut" (1914)
The values of innovation and novelty figured as importantly in the architecture of Wilhelmine Germany as they did in painting and sculpture. Technological advances, including the development of lighter....
7.   Reclam’s Universal Library (1911)
Founded in 1828, the Reclam publishing house made books available to a mass audience. Reclam published authors such as Goethe,....
8.   Theses on Literary Modernism (1887)
Literary modernism sought to embrace modern society in all its manifold conflicts, contradictions, and forms. While German literature had traditionally embraced forms from the past, particularly....
9.   Thomas Mann, Epilogue to Buddenbrooks (1905)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was one of the most accomplished German authors of the twentieth century. Published in 1905,....
10.   August Stramm, "Storm" and "Battle" (1914)
August Stramm (1874-1915) was a civil servant and reserve officer with a predilection for experimental poetry. He was an enthusiastic supporter of war and saw the violence of war as a restorative....
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