The best of Christian Schad's hyper-realistic, ultra-racy paintings were made between 1926 and 1929 when he was in his early thirties and in a kind of demonic state of decadent grace—his own personal 1,461 Days of Sodom in Vienna and Berlin. Two or three of these prickly beauties are among the lewdest paintings made in a century of lewd paintings. As seen in the Neue Galerie's randy but razor-sharp retrospective of this all but forgotten German, they... More >>>