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Interwar Germany's prevailing artistic movement encapsulates the hardship and hedonism of the Weimar Republic The ramifications of World War I called for new visual depictions of German social realities: the hardship on the one hand and the zest for life of the "Golden Twenties" on the other. This dichotomy resulted in the New Objectivity movement. Unsentimental, sober, specific and purist, it depicted the world in an objective, realistic manner. Many of Weimar Germany's most notable artists adopted this style, and the resulting works capture the era in perpetuity: an unsettling panorama when viewed from the present day. This first exhibition of German New Objectivity in Austria includes over 150 treasures of New Objectivity from renowned museums and private collections. Artists include: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Grethe Jürgens, Lotte Laserstein, Felix Nussbaum, Gerta Overbeck, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter.

Max Oppenheimer war Expressionist der ersten Stunde. Mit der großen Schau wird das gleichermaßen unbekannte wie überraschende Oeuvre des Künstlers neu beleuchtet und dessen Motivschatz - von Porträts und religiösen Themen über Stillleben sowie Gruppenkompositionen bis hin zu Musiker- und Tierdarstellungen - erschlossen. Text: Alfred Fehringer, Kerstin Jesse, Lisa Smit, Aline Marion Steinwender.

The first overview in a decade on Kubin’s gothic pageant of dreamworld menace The art of the great Austrian draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) appears more current today than ever before; wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters and the manipulation of the masses pervade his highly narrative works. Kubin’s nightmarish oeuvre extends Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered a precursor to French Surrealism, with its syntheses of actual and imaginary reality, its bleak realms that Kubin often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration.Published for an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Alfred Confessions of a Tortured Soul offers an exploration of Kubin’s oneiric worlds in terms of their relation to the unconscious. Through this lens, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs addresses pieces by Kubin selected by curator Hans-Peter Wipplinger. In addition, Kubin’s works are placed into a dialogue with works by artists of the 19th century and of the classical modernism from which Kubin derived inspiration.

The new presentation of the Leopold Museum's collection highlights the splendour and wealth of artistic achievements of an era shaped by the emergence of the Secessionists, the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and the deaths of eminent artists of Viennese Modernism, including Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner. Like the exhibition, the accompanying 560-page publication also aims to convey a sense of the character of this time and of the vibrant atmosphere in the metropolis of Vienna.Twelve scientific essays by renowned experts illustrate the historical aspects and biographies of the era's eminent protagonists whose fruitful synergy provided the basis for Vienna's unique cultural life around the turn of the century. A comprehensive appendix of illustrations shows the highlights of the Leopold Collection presented in the exhibition as well as important external loans.

Egon Schiele, Gunter Brus and Thomas Palme - three enfants terribles of their respective generations - have broadened the conventional concept of art with their works. Schiele's unsparing exploration of the individual, of the self, provided a necessary but unsettling prelude to the 20th century ravaged by two world wars. In the 1960s, Günter Brus revisited the body as a major theme in art and radicalized Schiele's analysis of the self by leaving paper and canvas behind early on and literally subjecting himself to a tension test. A generation later, it is now Thomas Palme who continues Schiele and Brus' legacy with his graphic works by quoting them, following on from their ideas and responding to them. transcend temporal, spatial and social borders at times also in a playful manner. Wit contributions by Roman Grabner, Diethard Leopold, Veit Loers, Hans-Peter Wipplinger

Der Katalog 'Poetiken des Materials' versammelt sechs in Wien lebende Künstlerinnen und Künstler. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich nicht nur durch die Breite der in ihnen aufscheinenden Bezüge zu unterschiedlichen kulturellen Diskursen, Formen der Narration und Repräsentationen von Geschichte(n) aus, sondern ebenso durch die Auffächerung der von ihnen verwendeten Medien und Materialien.0Exhibition: Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria (21.10.2016-30.01.2017).

Gregor Schmoll (*1970), der 'Monsieur Surrealist' der österreichischen Gegenwartskunst, verbindet Fotografien und skulpturale Arbeiten zu aufwändig inszenierten Gesamtinstallationen. Stets zeigen diese sein Bestreben auf, die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Imagination zu verwischen, indem er scheinbar Alltägliches in surreale wie absurde Zusammenhänge überführt. Mit einer dem Traumbild vergleichbaren Entstellung des kollektiven Bildrepertoires gelingt es Schmoll, komplexe Bezugssysteme zwischen unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Wissensbereichen herzustellen. Gleichzeitig zeigt der Künstler auf, dass unser Sehen im Alltag stets durch Bilder eines kulturellen Bildgedächtnisses vorstrukturiert ist. Er entlarvt dessen Inhalte nicht nur als Vermittler spezifischer Denk- und Wertmuster sondern auch als Grundlage bestehender Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen. Mit der Präsentation aller zentralen Werkgruppen der letzten zehn Jahre bietet die Publikation erstmalig einen umfassenden Einblick in das Œuvre Gregor Schmolls.