“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 ...

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During the hyperinflation in Germany of 1920s, the country's currency, the mark, went crazy. The government of the Weimar Republic may have been able to clear its debts, but it came at the cost of the ...

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A new video reveals how standards of beauty in Germany have changed and evolved over the past 100 years as the nation went through two wars, divided and then united again. In the film model Brooke ...