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The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in World War I, and the failed Communist revolution that followed the armistice in November 1918, and collapsed with the election of the Nazi Party in 1933. This week, Juliet talks to Tom Wilkinson (author of 'Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People Who Made Them') about how the war and its aftermath changed German Expressionism, gave rise to Dada and the Neue Sachlichkeit movements, and brought about the most intense reaction against modernist culture. SELECTED REFERENCES Die Aktion - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_aktion.php Arbeitsrat für Kunst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitsrat_für_Kunst Jean (Hans) Arp Bauhaus Der Blaue Reiter - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/der-blaue-reiter Bertolt Brecht ARNOLT BRONNEN, Vatermord (1922) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolt_Bronnen Die Brücke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920) Otto Dix - https://www.ottodix.org