Lenbachhaus Exhibition Explores Weimar Republic Without Wall Texts

The Lenbachhaus in Munich has opened "Ein Ferngespräch" (A Long-Distance Call), an exhibition subtitled "Scenes from the Weimar Republic." Curators deliberately omit explanatory wall texts, instead presenting 88 artworks with only quotations, trusting visitors' visual literacy to navigate the societal contradictions of the 1920s. The show opens amid a broader cultural surge of interest in the 1920s and 1930s across television, books, and museums. The curators avoid sweeping historical theses, aiming to let the artworks speak for themselves. The exhibition is reviewed in the current issue of Der Freitag.