In architecture, painting and sculpture, the movement most widely designated ‘neo-classical’ coincided in part with the Viennese Classical period in music, during the later 18th and early 19th centuries, though the term has also been applied to the work done in the 1920s by such painters as Matisse and Picasso. In Germany, during the same decade, the term ‘neue Sachlichkeit’ (new objectivity) was employed to denote the work of artists of all kinds who appeared to reject the more expressionistic tone of the immediate past and to exploit the postwar need for economy of means and incisiveness of expression to positive ends.