Until today the colorful imagery of Impressionism fascinates like no other art movement. The new type of painting, which emerged in 1860s France, is characterized by vibrant, high-keyed colors and the deployment of energetic, sketch-like brushstrokes. With Max Liebermann (1847–1935) as its famous figurehead, the revolutionary movement soon became the leading avantgarde in the German Empire. In terms of motifs, its artists explored a wide range of themes – from sun-drenched landscapes and atmospheric figure paintings to carefully arranged still lifes. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and brings together around 100 masterpieces of German Impressionism – in addition to key paintings by Max Liebermann also numerous works by colleagues such as Lovis Corinth, Philipp Franck, Dora Hitz, Gotthardt Kuehl, Sabine Lepsius, Eva Stort, Max Slevogt, and Fritz von Uhde.
The more than 40 international lenders include the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris as well as the Belvedere in Vienna.
Since antiquity, the detailed reproduction of nature has been one of the key concerns of the craft of painting. In the art of the 20th century, no other movement pursued this rivalry with reality as programmatically as American Photorealism. As a reaction to Abstract Expressionism, artists such as Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings or Ron Kleemann returned to figurative painting, seeking to compete with the medium of photography in its precision and pictorial prowess. Banal motifs from everyday American life became the trademarks of these highly ambitious artists, who located the power of images not in the subject itself, but in its astonishingly illusionistic reproduction. The exhibition explores the evolution of the movement, at times also referred to as Hyperrealism, from the 1960s through to the present day, bringing together well over 70 carefully selected masterpieces.
The numerous international lenders include the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Works by more than 20 artists are on display, including paintings by John Baeder, Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Roberto Bernardi, Tom Blackwell, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ben Johnson, Ralph Goings, Richard McLean, Malcolm Morley, Ron Kleemann, Karin Kneffel, Gerhard Richter, Raphaella Spence, and Craig Wylie.
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