Art of the 20th century
The Saisonstart is not just about discoveries in the present. The picture is complemented by Exhibitions that look back to the 20th century. Paintings, drawings and prints reveal an era that laid the foundations for much of what we take for granted today.
In DIE GALERIE , it is the homage to and the artists of the CoBrA group, who focus on the expressive potential of color. Gestural, informal, rebellious against traditional forms— and the artists of the CoBrA group, who focus on the expressive potential of color. Gestural, informal, rebellious against traditional forms—here, once again, we see the energy with which people sought to escape the stagnation after 1945.
Die Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher takes you on a journey to Paris in the 1950s to 1970s with its group exhibition dessin et passion. Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder are among the fixed stars of these years, whose works combine lightness and playful inventiveness with seriousness and intensity.
In the Kunstraum Bernusstraße one encounters the graphic work of Werner Tübke. The Leipzig master of post-war modernism remains a multi-layered figure: formally disciplined, yet with a narrative density that is impressively reflected in his prints.
die Galerie strikes a completely different note die Galerie Hanna Bekker vom Rath , where the work of Dresden artist Theodor Rosenhauer (1901–1996) is presented. Over decades, his late Impressionist-realist painting style has developed a quiet independence that eludes quick assessment—and that is precisely what makes it so intriguing.