Berlin declaration of love to Expressionism

ARTinvestment.RU – 29.07.2008,06:59

OTTO Dix Wild West





Ernst Ludwig Kirchner American dancing couples





Emil Nolde Sunflowers





GEORGE Gros Beauty, I glorify thee

Berlin hosts the annual festival «Ekspressionale». You can see pictures and graphics of famous artists of the early XX century - Otto Dix (Otto Dix), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner), George Grosso (Georg Grosz), Max Bekmanna (Max Beckmann), Lionel Fayningera (Lyonel Feininger), In addition, it is the first exhibition in the history of Germany, where works of art on display for the German legend next to the works of contemporary artists. Such contemporary artists as Louise Christine Thiele (Louise Christine Thiele), Hendler, Rolf (Rolf Haendler) and Maxim Kantor , represent a rethinking of aesthetics expressionism.

«kernel» exhibition represent the work of famous artists of the group «bridge» - Kirchner, Erich Hekkelya (Erich Heckel), Otto Muller (Otto Mueller), Emil Nolde (Emil Nolde). They contrast the painting and graphic works by artists «New corporeality» (Neue Sachlichkeit), the principal of whom - George Gross and Otto Dix - famous for his ruthless realism and the desire to uncover the ugliness of war tore the world. Many works that are being presented at the festival are sold. Of course, «classical» paintings Kirchner and Nolde are not intended for sale, but the timing of these artists can be purchased. In the exhibition there is a shop drawings, lithographs, wood engravings and watercolors Hekkelya, Dix, Oskar Kokoschka (Oskar Kokoschka), Corinto Lovis (Lovis Corinth), and others. Prices are not even kusachie - 30 (!) To 5 000 dollars.

Festival - is a declaration of love, not only expressionism, but also the capital of Germany. «Bohemian Berlin» Weimar Republic era excites the minds of the best artists of that time. Just remember the image Potsdamer Platz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, with its vicious nightlife and wonderful Bohemian characters. Berlin, and now continues to attract artists and other artists from all over the world a low cost of living and a whole lot of very different galleries (there are about five hundred - more than any other city in Europe). Decadent and destructive aura of the Weimar republic, bohemian paradise and hell post-1920's «captured» in lithographs «Traveling in Berlin» Max Bekmanna and grotesque paintings of Otto Dix.

In addition to «adischa city», exposition affected and other topics, which are used in art expressionist, and their followers. Of the notable works - abstract watercolor and wooden railway Lionel Fayningera, collages and watercolors known dadaistki Heh Hanna (Hannah Hoech), nudity pictures, made by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The exhibition tells of the love and the expressionists of primitive art, which can serve as an example of lithography Otto Muller.

«Ekspressionale» paid tribute to not only recognize the stars, but undeservedly forgotten artists. For example, Charles Joseph (Josef Scharl). In the 1930's and 1940's, Charles was very famous in New York - largely thanks to brilliantly executed portraits. He posed, even Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein). The exhibition can also see the sculpture masters institute Bauhaus Gerhard Marx (Gerhard Marcks), whose art can be attributed to the neoklassitsisticheskoy line «New corporeality». Other artists of this movement often overshadow exposer bloody reality Dix and Gros, but it is worth remembering that one of its main characteristics, in principle, is to revive the worship of the classical Greco-Roman tradition, unloved expressionist «singers primitivism».

Attention is also drawn to the painting of August Wilhelm Dressler (August Wilhelm Dressler). Some of his paintings, such as «Shlyapny Salon» (1937), left visual field specialists for many years, but in 2003, after the death of the daughter of the artist, revealed in the cellar of her home. These paintings are exhibited for the first time.

The most popular event at the «Ekspressionale» - Exhibition George Grosso. People would be much more, but the youngest art lovers entrance there to order: persons under the age of 18 can not look at the scandalous picture of the artist, even accompanied by parents. The exhibition called «erotism», and it represented 30 erotic (if not pornographic) pictures. Gros was famous as an unrelenting critic of the German public and German politicians (the picture was the culmination of 1944 «Hitler in hell»). In the 1940's - 1950 Gross lived in the United States, where a few days in the alcohol and entertainment groove with the girls. Transoceanic art world did not take too candid pictures Grosso, and the artist returned to Berlin, where in 1959, being in his usual state, fell down the stairs and died.

150 works classics expressionism, constituting the backbone of the exhibition come from the world-famous collection of Karsch-Nierendorf. It Nirendorf Joseph (Josef Nierendorf) between the two world wars, acquainted with the German expressionist America. Without the influence of German artists paintings of American abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock), Willem de Kuninga (Willem de Kooning) and other representatives of the New York schools, probably would have been different. «The exhibition can be seen that expressionism is not dead, he still lives», - said 83-year-old stepson Nirendorfa KARSHI Florian (Florian Karsch).

«Ekspressionale» will take place in Berlin until 24 August.

More about the German expressionists can be read here .

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: expressionale.de , www.newsweek.com , artinvestment . ru