Bold, Beautiful and Colourful
Germanic paintings from the French collections: 1420-1540
The Musée Unterlinden is inviting you to (re)discover a body of works painted in the Upper Rhine region in the late Middle Ages.
Today, these paintings can be puzzling: their subjects are religious in the vast majority of cases; they seem overloaded with gold and colours; they contain a profusion of figures oscillating between realism and exaggerated expressions.
The exhibition will help you to understand and appreciate these works:
- in a room on the ground floor of the cloister and in the chapel, a prologue to the exhibition is devoted to the materials used in these paintings and their restoration (How?);
- on the top floor of the Ackerhof building, three chapters present their functions (What for?), the people involved in their creation (For whom and by whom?) the artistic centres where they were produced and the development of their style (Where and when?).
- Finally, on the basement level of the cloister (Entresol) a room is devoted to the Strasbourg painter Wilhelm Stetter (1487-1522).
Today, these paintings can be puzzling: their subjects are religious in the vast majority of cases; they seem overloaded with gold and colours; they contain a profusion of figures oscillating between realism and exaggerated expressions.
The exhibition will help you to understand and appreciate these works:
- in a room on the ground floor of the cloister and in the chapel, a prologue to the exhibition is devoted to the materials used in these paintings and their restoration (How?);
- on the top floor of the Ackerhof building, three chapters present their functions (What for?), the people involved in their creation (For whom and by whom?) the artistic centres where they were produced and the development of their style (Where and when?).
- Finally, on the basement level of the cloister (Entresol) a room is devoted to the Strasbourg painter Wilhelm Stetter (1487-1522).
This exhibition is available in
German
French
English
Museum details
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Place Unterlinden
68000
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+33 3 89 20 51 50
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