The Mad Square: Modernity in German art, 1910–37

This major international travelling exhibition of the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents three decades of German modernism, leading up to and following the turbulent Weimar Republic. From 25th Nov 2011 to 4 Mar 2012 it also stops over in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

From the 1910s until late 1930s Berlin, the metropolis was a centre for creativity, from which avantgarde movements blossomed: Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity. All were linked by a shared interest in radical artistic experimentation. "The Mad Square: Modernity in German art" explores the aesthetic innovations made during this period in painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, film and the decorative arts.

Over 200 works by artists including George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and their contemporaries reveal the fascinating and complex ways in which artists responded to the forces of modernity in Germany and beyond.