German artists from Berlin, Cologne and Hanover are represented at their best here; many of them came with revolutionary experience from the New Objectivity movement during the Weimer Republic. Here are George Grosz, Otto Dix, Christian Schad and the principal Uber-Dada instigators Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Sophie Tauber, Hanna Hoch, John Heartfield, J.Baargeld and Raoul Hausmann, whose collages are still the best examples of the “challenge to painting” that German Dada-artists had to offer.

Julian Schnabel, Portrait of Andy Warhol, 1982, oil on velvet, courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. © 2010 Julian Schnabel. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and Regents Collections Acquisition Program with matching funds from the Jerome L. Green, Sydney and Frances Lewis and Leonard C. Yaseen Purchase Fund, 1994