An exhibition currently running at the Tate Liverpool, Portraying a Nation: Germany charts how two artists responded to the glamour and misery of Weimar Germany. The Germany that emerged from the chaos and destruction of World War I was, in many ways, a broken one. The punitive reparations dictated by the Treaty of Versailles and crippling hyperinflation between 1921 and 1924 had a ruinous effect on the German economy. The streets were filled with impoverished, often badly...