| Cross-Section
Through 150 Years From the Collection of the Neue Galerie of the City of Linz |
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Albin Egger-Lienz Ila, die jüngere Tochter des Künstlers 1920 Öl auf Holz 82 x 72 cm Inv. no. 155 purchased April 1957 View of the Exhibition |
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| The eighty works presented here, paintings,
sculptures and graphic works grouped into new ensembles, offer a fascinating
insight into the contents of the collection of the Neue Galerie of the
City of Linz. With children's portraits by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
and two paintings by Johann Baptist Reiter, two important representatives
of the Biedermeier era are presented. In addition to examples of Austrian
landscape painting of the second half of the 19th century (Jakob Emil
Schindler, Karl Schuch, Rudolf von Alt), supplemented with veduta, the
Linz museum shows other artistic positions of that era with works by Anton
Romako and Hans Makart, as well. A special focal point of the exhibition features the most important painters of Austrian Expressionism: Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and the "later" Gustav Klimt. Both Egon Schiele, who employed an ascetic image language in his portraits in a deformation of the physical, and Oskar Kokoschka, who, already influenced by Freud, subjected his models to an "x-ray process" by painting them, are represented in the exhibition with major works. Numerous examples from the portrait collection provide a multifaceted survey of the genres and styles of the first three decades of the 20th century. Particularly notable among these are the cooly distanced portrait of a lady by Carl Hofer and the vehemently painted, expressionist oil sketches by Max Oppenheimer. Some of the most important directions in art that have developed since the Second World War are represented with significant works: Abstract Expressionism (Karel Appel), Pop-Art (Andy Warhol with silkscreen portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Mao), monochrome painting (Jakob Gasteiger), Neue Wilde and Neue Figuration (Markus Lüpertz, Walter Dahn, Volker Tannert). More recent Austrian painters such as Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, Jürgen Messensee, Peter Sengl and Dietmar Brehm, to name only a few, form another focal point in this richly varied show, as well as selected exhibits from the area of sculpture and object art, from Anton Hanak through Alfred Hrdlicka, Bruno Gironcoli, Cornelius Kolig and Stephan Balkenhohl. |
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