On November 11, 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. A "new" world ensued and encapsulated daily life in Germany with Berlin and Dresden acting as the nexuses. Painters such as
Otto Dix,
George Grosz,
Max Beckmann, and Rudolph
Schlichter, all of whom served in WWI, narrated their own perspective about life in the newly formed Weimar Republic, which lasted from 1918 to 1933. Die Neue Sachlichkeit or New Objectivity was born.