The Other Germany: Dreaming of Peace (1914-1924) 

Exhibition

25 June > 16 November 2008

This exhibition has been organised in partnership with the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf and its Institut ‘Moderne im Rheinland’ (Institute for the Study of Lodernity in the Rhineland).

Our media partner : France Culture

The exhibition presents a major but unknown aspect of creation on the German side of the Rhine from 1914 to 1924. It is devoted to those German artists and writers who, confronted by the Great War, opted to denounce the inhumanity of the conflict and dreamed of a world at peace. For them, art would permit the creation of a new world and a new civilisation. Death, injury, the destruction of bodies and souls became the central themes in their work. Otto DIX, Georg GROSZ, Max BECKMANN, Franz W. SEIWERT, Gert WOLLHEIM, Will KÜPPER, Otto PANKOK, Else LASKER-SCHÜLER, Hugo BALL, Ernst TOLLER and many others were to contribute to this collective attempt to reveal and surmount the horrors of the Great War, bound together as they were by the desire for a better world.