`New Objectivity` Reception in German and Soviet Criticism in the 20-30s of the 20th Century

Student: Belikova Mariia

Educational Programme: History of Artistic Culture and the Art Market (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

20-30 years of XX century was a period of intensive cooperation of the USSR and Germany in exhibitional activity. Four exhibitions connected with German art were hold in the URSS within the period in question. German artists who are associated with “new objectivity” also participated in these exhibitions. In this relation Soviet museum staff as well as critics had an access to these art works and they left the significant “layer” of art criticism that has not been analysed yet. At the moment there is no research that could provide a reader with an adequate comparative analysis of German and Soviet criticism. The comparative analysis of Soviet and German sources that has been made in this paper allowed to define not only similarities and differences in approaches used in both criticism but also has prospects of breaking ground to the meaningful research of “new objectivity” in Post-Soviet Russia.

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