Jeanne Mammen, great artist of the German neue sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement that flourished during the years of the Weimar Republic was born on this day in 1890

Her incisive, sometimes satirical art captured that troubled but vibrant period and therefore was naturally condemned by the Nazis as degenerate when they came to power

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