New Objectivity
A term created in 1923 by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the Mannheim’s Kunsthalle to describe the paintings of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz. The works of these artists were a kind of reaction to the tendency for deformation of the other expressionists and were characterized by a clear, detailed, highly realistic, often grotesque or satirical, representation of reality, by coinciding almost with the so-called social realism. An exhibition entitled "New Objectivity» was organized in 1925.