Munch’s pictorial worlds – the initial impetus for modernism Edvard Munch’s radical modernity in painting was a challenge for his contemporaries. This applied in particular to the …
Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as “gutter art”: Käthe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a political voice for the social and human misery of her …
I 2019 er det 150-årsjubileum for Harald Sohlbergs fødsel. Utstillingen i Nasjonalgalleriet høsten 2018 og i London og Wiesbaden i 2019 vil danne en flott opptakt til aktiviteter …
The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre …
“Ambiguous work. Where can we start?”, wrote the art historian Oscar Schürer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picasso’s multi - faceted oeuvre back in 1927. …
Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg combine a Romantic perception of nature with a …
The spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist settled in 1932 and where she lived until her …
Paintings, graphic works, sculptures, textiles and furniture – Johannes Itten was an unusually versatile artist who during the six decades of his creative career also produced one …
Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of the here and now and to the …
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) is nowadays regarded as one of the leading pioneers of Modernism in Austria. Although he already enjoyed some success during his lifetime and came to …
