Arcadia and Metropolis: Masterworks of German Expressionism From the Nationalgalerie Berlin

This exhibition presents a selection of important paintings from one of Germany’s great collections of twentieth-century art. Covering the period from 1907 to 1926, it demonstrates German artists’ varied responses to their country's abrupt encounter with industrialization and urbanization.

Highlights include Max Pechstein’s idyllic nude, Seated Female Nude (Moritzburg) (1910); Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s angular cityscape, Potsdamer Platz (1914); and George Grosz’s brutal depiction of post-World War I society, Gloomy Day (1921). It is organized by Dr. Roland März, Curator at the Nationalgalerie Berlin. "Arcadia and Metropolis: Masterworks of German Expressionism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin" is on view from March 12 through June 7, 2004.