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Italy a 06-4212 or 06-43631 highways Raffic in Italy italian automobile club Aci italian language Only.  8 source aus Ems no 0utsehr Auto Mobil club Munich Ermany exhibitions Fite among the works in the Quot new objectivity Quot exhibit in Mannheim Germany Quot Sonja Quot left by Christian Schad and Quot the unemployed Quot by Otto Griebel. File show returns to roots for exhibit by de Reavis staff writer a a a. A a a. The new Art exhibit at the Kun Thalle in Mannheim Germany is dedicated to what the germans Call Neue Salchli Cheit which generally translates into English As Quot new objectivity Quot but sometimes As Quot new  theart of the Quot new objectivity Quot flourished during the Early Art  period of the Early 1920s. The Kun Thalle is an appropriate gallery for this show because it was there in 1925, that the term was invented. Gustav Hartlaub came up with the Label to describe an exhibit he put together that marked a turning away from expressionism and toward figurative depiction in Art the current show includes some 250 works by 70 artists of the period. It includes works by George Grosz Otto Dix Rudolf Schlichter Otto Griebel _ Alexander Kanoldt Max Beckmann Karl Hubbuch and Christian Schad to name a few. The original Mannheim exhibit was so popular that it was picked up by several other cities in Germany and thus became the Art history Label for one segment of figurative painting in. This exhibit ends Jan. 29. The mid 1920s. Museum director Hans Jirgen Buderer said it was not possible to recreate the original show because so Many works had been destroyed in the War or by the nazis it who decried the Art As  the key experience for most of the artists was world War i. Their _ experiences on the front made them for a variety of reasons to turn to the new figurative style that shunned away from what they considered As superficial Beauty. The new postwar life was modern sober mechanical and often Geometric to the rhythms of jazz. _ a a Charlie chaplains modern times was considered by Many of these artists As the truest expression of Many a place in this new world order if the Powers that be have their say in the future of the world. Quot the exhibit is full of portraits that _ were labelled As unflattering to ugly by viewers at the time but also fascinating because these portraits revealed not Only something about the character of the person but also of the times. All Good portraiture does this but the new objectivity hit the Nail on the head in the mid 1920. Genre paintings dwelt on the horrors of the War poverty or the seedy Side of life. It often revealed As George Grosz did the seedy Side of the Middle class. The nazi dictatorship had its own ideology of Quot blood and soil Quot a healthy Teutons with braided Blond hair or Bare muscular male chests and chiselled features. It abhorred the Stark realism of the new objectivity artist when the nazis took Power the new objectivity artists either fled the country or went into seclusion which has been termed  the jewish artists who failed to escape were killed in the ensuing holocaust. The exhibit runs until Jan. 29 and is open on tuesday and wednesday from 10 . To 5 ., on thursday and Friday from 10 a by. To 8  And on saturday and sunday from 10 . To 5  Closed on monday. Cost of admission is 13 Marks or 10 Marks for students. The Catalon costs 49 Marks at the museum or 98 Marks in  show in London before moving to Paris by Graham Heathcote the associated press the largest exhibition of works by the american artist James Mcneill Whistler to be shown anywhere since memorial exhibitions after his death in 1903 opened in London in october crowds throng the nine rooms displaying 191 oils drawings Watercolours pastels etchings and. Lithographs. His portrait of his seated Mother in profile painted when she stayed with the Tate show runs through Jan. 8, and then goes to the Paris Musee do orsay from feb. 6-april 30 and the National gallery of Art in Washington d.c., from May 28-aug. 20. / him in London in 1871, has been a loaned from Paris. Quot it is arguably the most famous american portrait Ever painted Quot said one of the shows curators. London Art critic Richard Dorment from Glen Ridge . _ Quot it was the first american picture to enter the Paris louvre in 1891 and it was terribly important for americans wha Finay had an artist who could be compared to Velasquez Rembrandt and All the other great artists in that museum Quot he said. Quot Butin american terms it also became Quot a Symbol of motherhood a its on every Mother s Day card a and it was on a three cent stamp when i was a boy. When it was shown at amp est. Louis world fair the line stretched for Miles Quot Dorment said. 24 stripes Magazine december a 1994