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With Ruin and Rush<\/em>, the Neue Nationalgalerie highlights selected works from its Classical Modern collection that explore Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. These decades \u2013 shaped by the First World War and the Weimar Republic \u2013 were marked by constant tension between extremes: excess and poverty, emancipation and extremism, all coexisting in a rapidly growing, cosmopolitan city. Featuring around 35 works in a variety of artistic styles, the exhibition brings to life the contradictions of Berlin\u2019s past.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 1910, Berlin was on the rise: the city was growing at a rapid pace and becoming one of the most important centres of modernism in the world. Technological advances in industry, construction, and transportation accompanied the rise of a new mass culture, with an emphasis on leisure. As the city transitioned from the conservative German Empire to the democratic Weimar Republic, its intellectual climate underwent a profound transformation \u2013 defined by sharp contrasts: liberating and unsettling at once, chaotic yet innovative, brilliant and ominous. The traumas of the First World War and political unrest cast a long shadow over the \u201cGolden Twenties\u201d. The metropolis was in upheaval on every level: freedom, consumption, and excess coexisted with growing poverty and unemployment. Even back then, Berlin was nicknamed \u201cBabylon\u201d \u2013 an allusion to the biblical \u201cBabel\u201d \u2013 a place where people from all over the world converged and moral boundaries were crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruin and Rush<\/em>\u00a0explores, in three main sections, the simultaneity of glamour and misery, and rise and fall in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s. The exhibition opens with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner\u2019s painting\u00a0Potsdamer Platz<\/em>, which, as early as 1914, captured the fractured spirit of the age. After an introductory section examining the dynamism of the growing metropolis \u2013 its architecture, traffic, and nightlife \u2013 the second part of the exhibition turns to the social suffering, hardships and deprivations that defined the daily lives of most of the population. The third section sheds light on the multifaceted, urban new woman, addressing changing attitudes toward freedom, self-determination, and queer life. The exhibition closes with Lotte Lasersteins melancholic work\u00a0Evening over Potsdam<\/em>\u00a0(1930), a reflection on the rising tide of National Socialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition primarily features paintings and sculptures from the Nationalgalerie\u2019s collection, supplemented by a major loan from the Landesbank Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg collection at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart: Otto Dix\u2019s 1925 portrait of the dancer Anita Berber. All works have an explicit connection to the city of Berlin \u2013 whether through their subject matter or through biographical ties to the artists. The polyphonic voices of the era unfold through works representing styles as varied as Expressionism and New Objectivity. Clips from Fritz Lang\u2019s silent film classic\u00a0Metropolis<\/em>\u00a0(1927) and Walther Ruttmann\u2019s experimental documentary\u00a0Berlin: Symphony of a Great City<\/em>\u00a0(1927) are also on view. Three listening stations feature poems by Anita Berber, Mascha Kal\u00e9ko, and Erich K\u00e4stner that complement the exhibition\u2019s themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists in the exhibition:\u00a0Josephine Baker, Anita Berber, Rudolf Belling, Otto Dix, Heinrich Ehmsen, Paul Fuhrmann, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Thea von Harbou, Hannah H\u00f6ch, Karl Hofer, Constantin Holzer-Defanti, Mascha Kal\u00e9ko, Erich K\u00e4stner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Kolbe, K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Fritz Lang, Lotte Laserstein, Tamara de Lempicka, Jeanne Mammen, Carlo Mense, Otto Nagel, Oskar Nerlinger, Ernest Neuschul, Walther Ruttmann, Ren\u00e9e Sintenis, Jakob Steinhardt, Georg Tappert, Lesser Ury, Gustav Wunderwald<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imprint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators: Uta Caspary, Irina Hiebert Grun
Curatorial Assistant: Noor van Rooijen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25.04.2026 to 03.01.2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.smb.museum\/en\/exhibitions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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