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        The inclusion of naive or primitive elements was one of the important paths along which Post-Expressionism  developed and in many cases created a magical mood in a painting. For German artists of the post World War I period the art of Henri Rousseau served as inspiration. Naive and primitive styles were widely seen in Weimar Germany during the 1920s, with significant groups in Munich and Hanover. In naive art details are often sharply delineated throughout the painting. Figuration may often appear to be stylized rather than accurately rendered. Modeling and tonality may be lacking or absent. It should be emphasized that Magic Realism and Naive Art are two distinct types of art per se, but during the interwar period there was some commonality between the two.

        In 1924 Franz Roh wrote an article about the Henri Rousseau's painting Sleeping Gypsy. This painting served as the frontispeice for Roh's 1925 book on Magic Realism. Roh actually detailed seven different currents as being related to  Magic Realism, Naive art being one of them.

 
 

 

 

 
 

Small Town by Day - The Butcher (1922-23) by Georg Scholz

 

Mutter und Kind Im Hof (1919)
by Georg Schrimpf

 

Kleinstadt bei Nacht (1922-23)
by Georg
Scholz

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Oskar Maria Graf (1927)
by Georg Schrimpf

 

Das rote Pferd (1932)
by
Ewald Schönberg

 

Die Blinde / The Blind (1918)
by Niklaus Stoecklin

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Krankes Mädchen (1926)
by Grethe Juergens

 

 Kind mit Pferd (1925)
by
Eberhard Viegener

  Strasse nach Waiblingen (1933)
by Volker Böhringer
 

 

 

       
 

Der Akrobat (1920)
by Heinrich Maria Daveringhausen

 

Ernstli mit Apfel auf der Ofenbank (1925)
by
Adolf Dietrich

 

Balinese Legend (1928)
by Walter Spies

 
 

 

     
 

Akt in Landschaft (1924)

 

Goettliche Kueste - Positano (c1924)

 

 

 

 

 
 

Before Entering the Ring (c1930)
by Camille Bombois

 

Le Repos des Gens du Cirque (c1930)
by
Camille Bombois

 

 

 

 

 
 

Junge mit Seifenblasen (1923)
by
Heinrich Maria Daveringhausen

 

Rheingasse (1917)
by Niklaus Stoecklin

 

 

     
 

Frühlingsgarten (1926) by Adolf Dietrich

 

The sinking of the Rheinfallr (1935)
by Adolf Dietrich

 
 

 

     

Fischerboote an der Mole (1931) by Erich Wegner

Leuchturm (1928) by Erich Wegner

 

     
 

Trödelladen (Junk-Shop) (1926) by Ernst Thoms

 

Schwedische Schaerenwerft (1930 ) by Ernst Thoms

 

 

     
 

Death on the Ridge Road (1935) by Grant Wood

 

Train (1926) by Ernst Thoms

 

 

 

 
 

Festus Yayple and His Oxen (1946) by George Ault