Neue
Galerie New York, Museum for German and Austrian Art UPPER EAST SIDE | NEW YORK | USA
FEBRUARY
22, 2018-MAY 28, 2018
On February
22, 2018, Neue Galerie New York will present "Towards Catastrophe: German
and Austrian Art of the 1930s," an exhibition devoted to the development
of the arts in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis,
political disintegration, and social chaos. The Neue Galerie is the sole venue
for the exhibition, which will be on view through May 28, 2018.
The
exhibition is organized by Dr. Olaf Peters, University Professor at
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, and serves as the third show in a
trilogy of exhibitions curated by Peters that focus on German history. The
first of these three shows, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi
Germany 1937” organized in 2014, examined the infamous traveling exhibition
“Entartete Kunst” mounted by the National Socialist regime. The exhibition was
an enormously popular and critical success. The second show, “Berlin
Metropolis: 1918-1933” on view in 2015, explored the critical role played by
the city of Berlin in the growth of modern culture. Pandiscio Green is the designer
of the exhibition and catalogue for “Towards Catastrophe,” and can also be
credited for the inventive installations for the previous two shows in this
trilogy.
This
exhibition, comprised of nearly 150 paintings and works on paper, will trace
the many routes traveled by German and Austrian artists and will demonstrate
the artistic developments that foreshadowed, reflected, and accompanied the
beginning of World War II. Central topics of the exhibition will be the
reaction of the artists towards their historical circumstances, the development
of style with regard to the appropriation of various artistic idioms, the
personal fate of artists, and major political events that shaped the era.
The show
assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max
Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to
audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Albert Paris
Gütersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and
Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant
works. Among the important loans to the exhibition will be Max Beckmann's
"Bird Hell" from 1937-38, Oskar Kokoschka's "Portrait of Thomas
G. Masaryk" from 1935-36, and Richard Oelze's uncanny “Expectation"
from 1935-36. The exhibition will also feature photographic portraits by Helmar
Lerski and August Sander.
Address:
1048 Fifth
Avenue , Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA 10028
0 Comments