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Gallery Hours
Di.-So. 10.00-18.00, Do. 10.00-20.00
Within the rich collection of Expressionist works, the Cubist and Futurist re-definition of autonomous art challenges the question of man’s changed circumstances in the modern age. The artists of the “Brücke”, the “Blaue Reiter” and Max Beckmann address this issue impressively. Pablo Picasso’s pictorial fantasies and formal richness of invention are illuminated in large groups of works along with the Surrealist enigmas of the worlds portrayed by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí.
Important themes after 1945, such as the formal and contextual extension of the term art, the "nobilitation" of the trivial and the ensuring related discussion on the equality of everyday and high culture are at the centre of extensive groups of works by Lucio Fontana, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Georg Baselitz.
It has never been the intention of the collection to present a seamless chronology of art in the 20th and 21st century. Attention is centered much more on questions that set standards in modern and contemporary art. This approach takes the collection’s unique profile into account that places a decisive emphasis on concentration and the creation of focal points.
The parallel developments in classical modern art are thus much more clearly understood as a result of concentrating the visitor’s view on selected works than would be the case if a broad, encyclopaedic overview were provided. Differing perceptional mechanisms at the end of the 20th century are conveyed in exceptional individual artistic positions. By juxtaposing these, works enter into a more precise dialogue with one another in different presentations of the collections than would otherwise be possible if presented as a single panorama.
