Both can be seen to have given rise to Weimar???s excesses ??? the wellspring of creativity on the plus side and the social divisions on the negative.The society that spawned Macheath and his milieu is also vividly alive in the paintings of such artists as Otto Dix, Felix Nussbaum, George Grosz, Rudolph Schlichter and others (Art Gallery of NSW) and the beguiling, tawdry allure that swirls about t