Robin Brunold
More and more people therefore migrated to the cities, already in 1907 almost half of the population no longer lived in their place of birth. These developments had on the one hand many good sites and consequences: so the material standard of living had risen strongly, previously incurable diseases can be reversed and his life had increased according to individual wishes and needs to make the possibilities of man. Faith in the blessings of modern technology especially in the 19th century this led to a widely-spread optimism of progress and a strong. But the continued increase of technological progress had not only positive consequences for the lives of people in the early stages of Modern: So the progressive acquisition of nature using modern scientific methods let the world and its nature modern humans now often appeared sober and cold. The increase of mobility and the possibilities of modern communication led to a fast-track historical change and the resolution and relativization traditional worldviews, perspectives, and beliefs. That was understood by many people not only as liberation but also as eliminating mental security.
The increasing process of specialization and the Mathematization and scientification of the world even further reinforced the feeling of insecurity. In addition, the social conditions that now surrounded the people, appeared increasingly as directed by alien and incomprehensible anonymous decision-making powers, although these powers were still people. As the turn of the century spread out, once in the 19th century a nearly unbroken advance optimism had prevailed, a growing Crisis. This changed mood was especially in the intellectual elite of the educated bourgeoisie, virulent, that crashed due to the loss of its importance because of the emergence of the industrial bourgeoisie in an identity and crisis of sense of. Now, many contemporaries saw the loss and the new threats as the flip side of rapid progress. Thus a wide range of movements developed in so profound reform movements such as the reform movement of life from a general atmosphere of crisis. In terms of artistic Expressionism just makes this backlash.