Category:Socialist realism in Germany

English: The Socialist Realism was a style of the art of the 20th century which had her basis in an ideological effort of an artistic expression without each near of reality and aestheticisation of the depicted topic. Mostly they are showing motives of the life of a worker, on the country and/or in the residential environment as foreground. Later, the artists turned towards the art of the "Moderne" as oppositional movement to the "socialist mass art". Many of these artists changed into a so-called "inner emigration" inside the western economic system through fear before political persecution. The beginning point had the socialist realism without doubts in 1932 in the then Soviet Union and was the dominant state art until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. The most strongest period had this art in the time after the Second World War (1939-1945) until to the death of Stalin in 1953. After them were the pregiven specifications again a little relaxed. Especially during the state building process of the countries of the "Eastern bloc" in the time after the Second World War played the "socialist realism" an important role. The predecessor had this art in the styles of bourgeois realism of the 19th and 20 century, in the so-called "proletarian realism" of the first half of the 19th and 20th century, in the expressionism, kubism, abstract art, and many more and concerned not only the painting and sculpting, rather also the literature, architecture, music and other art styles in the entire socialist world system.