John Willett | The New York Review of Books

Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht

January 12, 1995 issue

‘Brecht in Context’

May 31, 1984 issue

The Two George Groszes

George Grosz: An Autobiography

translated by Nora Hodges

March 1, 1984 issue

Berlin in the Light

Berlin 1910-1933

by Eberhard Roters, with Janos Frecot and Sonja Günther and Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg and Ulrich Gregor and Arno Paul, translated by Margerite Mounier

Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939

by Van Deren Coke

February 17, 1983 issue

Breaking Away

The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany

by Peter Paret

May 28, 1981 issue

Art of a Nasty Time

Nazi art showed how certain already prevalent German traditions and characteristics could be harnessed to the Nazi cause. What is more, they recalled corresponding features in the art of other countries—the kind of tame classicism, flashy Italianate portraiture, sub-Barbizon rusticity, and lumpy earthiness that could be found also in London, Rome, Paris, and New York.

Art in the Third Reich

by Berthold Hinz, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber

June 26, 1980 issue