Jaromír Funke a nová věcnost v internacionálních souvislostech

The article examines the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) in photography, in its narrower sense defining it as the detailed or close description of the surfaces of material objects. The article looks also at the role of the New Objectivity in German art and photography and examines it in relation to pictorialism and the Czech avant-garde (Devětsil). It discusses the work that the pioneer of avant-garde photography Jaromír Funke produced in the years between 1923 and 1929, which originated some of the principles of the New Objectivity. In the 1920s Funke invented also non-figurative shadow play. In the style of New Objectivity he taught his students in the 1930s.