German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature

Harvard FAS

Explores the radical break with traditions of thinking, building, seeing, and representing that occurred at the end of the 19th-century in Germany and Austria, and the new forms of architecture, painting, and literature to which this break led over the following 40 years (1890–1930). Topics include, among others, the loss or destruction of coherence in general, more specifically the loss of a sense of a unified self, alienation in the industrial and urban world, the rejection of unified…