Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh
dal 26/9/2014 al 31/1/2015
Segnalato da
26/9/2014
Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Inpiration Japan. The exhibition's focus is the period between 1860 and 1910, the early phase of the reception of Japanese art in France, the so-called "Japonisme". The show presents major works of the most important artists of that time from international museums and private collections, together with colour woodcuts and artefacts of Japanese masters.
Japanese art is of fundamental importance for the development of European modernism. Almost all great masters from Manet, Degas, Cézanne and Monet to Gauguin, van Gogh, Bonnard and Vuillard were fascinated and inspired by Japanese pictorial motifs and stylistic devices. Their keen interest in Japanese art is evident in many respects: they portray both artefacts and commodities imported from Japan in their works, they appropriate Japanese pictorial subjects to depict their own European environment and – far more significantly – they incorporate the formal language of the Japanese colour woodcut. In combination with their own pictorial tradition and the experiences of their time, it was particularly this internalisation of the woodcut which instilled in the artists a stimulating creativity out of which they developed diverse forms of artistic expression that had an effect far into the twentieth century.
Museum Folkwang, which possesses a collection of Japanese artefacts built up in its early days, is devoting an extensive exhibition to this fascinating chapter of art history for the first time in over twenty years. It will focus on the period between 1860 and 1910, the early phase and heyday of the reception of Japanese art in France, the so-called “Japonisme”. The exhibition presents major works of the most important artists of that time from international museums and private collections, together with colour woodcuts and artefacts of Japanese masters.
Featuring essays by well-known authors as well as younger scholars, the comprehensively illustrated catalogue sheds light on the most important aspects of this formative epoch and the productive exploration of Japan embarked upon by artists living and working in France.
Available in German and English
The exhibition is being presented in long-standing partnership with E.ON.
Image: Vincent van Gogh, Le semeur, 1888. Sower with Setting Sun Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle, Zürich © Photo: SIK Zürich (J. P. Kuhn)
More information: www.inspiration-japan.de
Press officer:
Anna Sophie Littmann T +49 201 8845160 F +49 201 889145000 anna.littmann@museum-folkwang.essen.de - presse@museum-folkwang.essen.de
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Standard: 13 €
Concessions: 8 €
Kunstring Folkwang e.V.: 8 €