Neue Nationalgalerie's 'Ruin and Rush' Examines 1920s Berlin

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin presents 'Ruin and Rush', an exhibition featuring around 35 works from its Classical Modern collection that explore the city during the 1910s and 1920s. This period, shaped by World War I and the Weimar Republic, was marked by extremes of excess and poverty, emancipation and extremism. Berlin evolved through industrialization into a political and cultural center; with the founding of Greater Berlin in 1920, its population surged to approximately 4 million, making it the third-largest city globally after New York and London. The exhibition makes the ambivalence of glamour and misery, rise and fall viscerally tangible through a variety of artistic styles.