{"id":46672,"date":"2025-03-27T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/4-museen-1-moderne\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:07:16","slug":"4-museen-1-moderne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/4-museen-1-moderne\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Museums –\n1 Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The four themes of the joint exhibition of all four museums of the Pinakothek der Moderne on the occasion of 100 years Die Neue Sammlung<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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The aesthetics of modernism were characterized by a far-reaching departure from traditional design approaches and a turn towards ahistorical, technical principles.
Particulary prevailing were simple geometrical shapes as well as a palette reduced to white, gray, black, and the primary colors. In both two and three dimensions, abstraction was combined with minimalism and elegance.
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Constructivist principles entered into design and painting in the form of vigorous lines, bright surfaces divided into rectangles or triangles, or in graphic designs with differently sized rectangular color fields, often superimposed on one another.

The reduction to geometric shapes also defined \u201cNew Building\u201d. White, cube-shaped houses with flat roofs, strips of windows, flexible use of living space, and terraces improved the quality of life by bringing air and light into the interiors. One extraordinary example was the world\u2019s first spherical house in Dresden, a steel structure complete with a metallic outer skin.

Movement as a theme in both architecture and design attests to an intoxication with speed that was expressed above all in the wish for personal mobility, such as is embodied by the White Mars motorcycle.

Photographs transformed natural shapes into abstract form and made them appear like massive, expansive sculptures or edifices. The kind of staging used in experimental ad photography became a fundamental feature of photography in the New Objectivity style.
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