From September 19, 2025, to January 11, 2026, the Albertina in Vienna presents the exhibition “Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz”
Supply: Albertina Vienna · Picture: Arnold Böcklin: “Self-portrait with death as a fiddler.” Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The standard thought of modernism is as a elementary break with custom. It’s thus that little consideration has been paid to the way in which through which deliberate recourse to the distant previous of the Late Center Ages performed a central function in exactly that reinvention of artwork that happened round 1900.
This exhibition shines a highlight on a improvement that happened between 1870 and 1920 through which quite a few artists equivalent to Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, and Otto Dix intentionally referred again to the expressive artwork of figures equivalent to Holbein, Dürer, Cranach, and Baldung Grien. Encounters with medieval aesthetics elicited intense feelings and afforded artists new methods of partaking with the elemental questions of human existence. This ALBERTINA exhibition inimitably unites modernist masterpieces with these of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
