The exhibition presents around 75 works by the French avant-garde - drawings, watercolors, lithographs, etchings and woodcuts - from the period between 1870 and 1918 from the Kunsthalle's holdings.
The focus is on the tense picture painted by art in the 19th and early 20th centuries between tradition and modernity. Attention is paid to "modern life" - "la vie moderne" - with its implications such as everyday life in the big city, technological progress, but also social contrasts and challenges as well as new pictorial genres and media.
The exhibition deliberately opens up a cross-media dialog between graphic art and painting. It shows how the Kunsthalle's historically grown collection complements each other in these media - a critical look at both genres in a turbulent era.
Curator: Dr. Ursula Drahoss
Curatorial assistance: Dorotea Lorenz
The focus is on the tense picture painted by art in the 19th and early 20th centuries between tradition and modernity. Attention is paid to "modern life" - "la vie moderne" - with its implications such as everyday life in the big city, technological progress, but also social contrasts and challenges as well as new pictorial genres and media.
The exhibition deliberately opens up a cross-media dialog between graphic art and painting. It shows how the Kunsthalle's historically grown collection complements each other in these media - a critical look at both genres in a turbulent era.
Curator: Dr. Ursula Drahoss
Curatorial assistance: Dorotea Lorenz
