New Objectivity, as a style in the visual arts, developed in the German-speaking world after the First World War and represents a reaction to Expressionism. As the term already suggests, New Objectivity offered a return to reality and a concentration on the objectively perceptible. The style is therefore also referred to as the new representational painting of the Weimar Republic, which distanced itself from the more abstract, romantic or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism.