Modern Art Classics: Liebermann, Munch, Nolde, Kandinsky
Featuring a selection of works ranging from German Impressionism to international abstraction after 1945, Modern Art Classics was shown parallel to the inaugural exhibition Impressionism: The Art of Landscape.
Impressionism, which for the first time focused on precisely capturing the fleeting moment, provided important impulses to artists in their critical examination of the modern age. What contributions did the exhibited works make to the modern movement? How did the painters break with tradition? How did they forge new paths? The exhibition examined the broad period from German Impressionism in the 1880s to Fauvism and abstraction after 1945.
Helge Mundt
The exhibition, which featured sixty paintings, examined central topics and developments of artistic liberation in the twentieth century and provided background information about artists, their works, and their painting styles. Based on the Hasso Plattner Collection, works by the following artists were exhibited: Norman Bluhm, Henri-Edmond Cross, André Derain, Sam Francis, Auguste Herbin, Hans Hofmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Martin Kippenberger, Gustav Klimt, Max Liebermann, Joan Mitchell, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Max Slevogt, Rufino Tamayo, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Andy Warhol.
Retrospect
With 60 paintings and sculptures spanning more than 100 years, the six sections of the exhibition explored questions of artistic emancipation.
