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 concept of modernism is as a elementary break with custom. It’s thus that little consideration has been paid to the best way by which deliberate recourse to the distant previous of the Late Center Ages performed a central function in exactly that reinvention of artwork that passed off round 1900.
This exhibition shines a highlight on a growth that passed off between 1870 and 1920 by which quite a few artists reminiscent of Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, and Otto Dix intentionally referred again to the expressive artwork of figures reminiscent of Holbein, Dürer, Cranach, and Baldung Grien. Encounters with medieval aesthetics elicited intense feelings and afforded artists new methods of participating with the basic questions of human existence. This ALBERTINA exhibition inimitably unites modernist masterpieces with these of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
