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Item Number: 131577
Title: Sterne fallen : Von Boccioni bis Schiele : Der Erste Weltkrieg als Ende europäischer Künstlerwege. Falling Stars : World War I As The End Of The Road: Disrupted Lives From Boccioni To Schiele
Author: Thumann, Peter (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783731901341
Description: Petersberg: Imhof, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 248pp., 205 color illus. German-English text. Exhibition held at Kunsthalle zu Kiel. German text. Summary: In commemoration of the beginning of the First World War, the exhibition Falling Stars engages with European artists whose lives and artistic careers found an abrupt end due to the War and the attendant circumstances. The title of the show quotes the expressionist poet August Stramm, who wrote the poem “Wunde” (Wound) during World War I and was also one of its many victims. The works of over 50 artists will be on view in the presentation. Some of the names have been indelibly etched in the memories of international and German art lovers. Such is the case, for example, with Franz Marc and August Macke, Albert Weisgerber and Umberto Boccioni. But the oeuvres of many other artists are, if at all, only sparsely represented in public collections and find, with this exhibition, a public forum for the very first time. Falling Stars unfolds a broad spectrum of highly diverse styles and movements of a period of time steeped in drastic political upheaval and radical artistic change. We will be mounting paintings, prints and sculptures by largely young talents who were hardly blessed with enough time to find maturity in their work. Thus the exhibition intrinsically asks in what respects this caesura impacted modern art in general.
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