Neue Nationalgalerie presents about 35 works of classical modernism from its collection that take on Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s.
The show unfolds in three chapters, opening with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Potsdamer Platz (1914) and closing with Lotte Laserstein's Abend über Potsdam (1930). Otto Dix's 1925 portrait of the dancer Anita Berber is on loan. Excerpts from Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Walther Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis run alongside the paintings, and three listening stations play poems by Anita Berber, Mascha Kaléko and Erich Kästner.
Curated by Uta Caspary and Irina Hiebert Grun.