Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. [modern European styles and movements]
7. [modern European regional styles and movements]
8. [modern German styles and movements]
9. [modern German fine arts styles and movements]

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the satirical movement that developed in German painting in the early 1920s and continued until the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s. Reacting to the violence of World War I, the style is characterized by a rejection of Expressionism and an emphasis on close observation of objects; social criticism; cold, static, figures; and sometimes naive styles.