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Van Gogh and Expressionism, an exhibition featuring many masterpieces
From 24 November 2006 until 4 March 2007 the Van Gogh Museum is presenting an exhibition focusing on Van Gogh and Expressionism featuring masterpieces by such famous artists as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and Vincent van Gogh himself.
This is the first time that such a major exhibition is being devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s powerful influence on German and Austrian Expressionists.
Especially in the years between Van Gogh’s death and the beginning of World War I in 1914 his paintings came to be seen as symbolising ‘international’ and ‘modern’ art. In those days Van Gogh’s popularity was greatest in Germany, where private collectors and museum directors started to buy his works even before his star had truly started to ascend.
In Van Gogh’s works the expressionists saw a vital power in the pure, bright colours and a confronting directness, which they took as a basis for their own new art. German artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Wassily Kandinsky were particularly impressed by Van Gogh’s technique – the thick brushstrokes combined with sharp colour contrasts.
The Austrian Richard Gerstl and Oskar Kokoschka were more influenced by Van Gogh’s emotional approach in for example his psychological portraits.
The exhibition will include around twenty paintings by Van Gogh and forty by the Expressionists, mostly from the collections of the Van Gogh Museum and New York’s Neue Galerie. They will be supplemented with key works from other public and private collections.
More information: www.vangoghmuseum.nl.
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