Magic Realism
Art in Weimar Germany: 1919 - 1933
Tate Modern 30 July 2018 - 14 July 2019 Although since the 1950s the term magic realism has become associated with Latin American literature, it was first coined by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925, to describe a return to realism, after the emotional, anxious, approach of expressionism. But it was a new realism, that observed and captured the magic, mysterious, side of human life and its inner worlds.