“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

In the aftermath of the First World War, avant-garde, utopian and idealistic styles were rejected as superficial by German artists who sought more realistic responses to the everyday world of post-war ...

We had our doubts when Serge Lasvignes, Laurent Le Bon's predecessor as president of the Centre Pompidou, announced his intention to recapture the spirit of the great multidisciplinary exhibitions ...

This week`s column answers questions sent in by readers. Q–I have a collection of unused German stamps with values up to two million marks. Do they have any value? A–During the early 1920s, inflation ...

THREE years ago the editor of the Atlantic Monthly wrote me a courteous letter, inquiring what objects Germany had in the war. This letter did not reach me until six months ago. Germany’s war aims in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FRANKENSTEINER NOTGELD / DIESER ...

Glenn Beck on Sunday compared the political landscape in the United States to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. “I’m a student of history. And you can look to the 1960s for answers and you can look to ...