In the organizer's words:
The exhibition at the Von der Heydt Museum celebrates the rediscovery of one of the outstanding painters of New Objectivity: Carl Grossberg (1894-1940). His extensive oeuvre, which was created in a period of just under 20 years, is almost exclusively dedicated to the themes of architecture and industry. With its formal clarity and rigor, it is an expression of a new, photographic way of seeing and reflects the technical progress of the first third of the 20th century. The reduced compositions encourage us to critically question industrial progress and its effects on people.
The exhibition, the first retrospective in over 30 years, takes a comprehensive new look at Carl Grossberg's oeuvre and presents a series of previously unknown works. It shows how topical Grossberg's works are, both artistically and socially. In particular, the ambiguously legible "dream pictures", unique in the art of the 1920s and 1930s, show him to be a highly sensitive intellectual. Grossberg's art conjures up the magic of things, making the complexity of the modern world and its inner contradictions visible. Parallels to today arise from the structural change currently taking place with as yet unforeseeable social consequences, for which convincing visual forms are currently being negotiated.
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