“Eclipse of the Sun: Art of the Weimar Republic”

George Grosz satirical art has become synonymous with the cultural and political tumult of Berlin during Germany’s Weimar Republic, a period marked by economic instability, artistic experimentation, sexual license and radical extremism on both the Left and Right. Using hard-bitten lines and Cubistic compositional fractures, Grosz depicted the German capital overrun with prostitutes, plutocrats and broken veterans reduced to begging in the streets. The era’s corruption is particulary crystalized in his monumental 1926 canvas, Eclipse of the Sun, which anchors this survey of Weimar art.