Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck II
Ostsächsische Kunsthalle Pulsnitz
02.04.2023 - 28.05.2023
curator: Jördis Lademann
Paris, Berlin and New York are widely regarded as metropolises of modernity, which see themselves as avant-garde in character and claim and are characterized by different styles of abstraction in the pictorial representation.
However, this traditional view largely ignores regional developments outside of these metropolises. Expressionist, cubist and constructivist variants of abstract art have been a national phenomenon for more than 100 years. The border triangle between the art centers of Prague, Dresden and Breslau was also affected. Groups, institutions and unique artistic personalities of supra-regional appeal spoke up, for example from Görlitz, Breslau and Bischofswerda. Political intolerance, two world wars and the decades-long division of Europe into a western and an eastern camp interrupted the development several times and tried to suppress it. However, abstraction has maintained its place in art in ever new varieties to this day. One thinks of names like Otto Mueller, Gerhart Richter, Strawalde, Sigmar Polke, Horst Weber, Frank Nitsche and Thoralf Knobloch, prominent representatives who, because of their origins, gained their first artistic experiences here and later conquered galleries, museums and the world art market. It is also important to rediscover many other artists who have so far received little international attention, such as Hans Tischler, Fritz Neumann-Hegenberg, Marg and Oscar Moll, Carl Lohse, Willy Schmidt, Horst Strempel, Hans Schulze or Reinhard Roy. Found ways and kept them open, so that, since cross-border cultural exchange has become a matter of course again, abstraction in the fine arts can pick up speed again.
Artists: Georg Baselitz, Bettina Böhme, Ludwig A. Böhme, Artur Bonk, Elmar Brendgen, Hans Christoph, Ilona Chválová, Walter Deckwarth, Heinz Fesser, Moritz Gabriel, Adolf Traugott von Gersdorf, Hilde Golde, David Hanvald, Angelika Heinze, Frank Hiller, Olaf Holzapfel, Beate Hornig, Tilmann Hornig, Janusz Jasiński, Angelika John, Eckhard Kempin, Thoralf Knobloch, Rosemarie Köster, Paula Lauenstein, Hans Leistikow, Carl Lohse, Maria Maier, Marg Moll, Oskar Moll, Otto Mueller, Georg Nerlich, Fritz Neumann-Hegenberg, Frank Nitsche, Elke Noßky, Frank Panse, Walter Piroch, Stefan Plenkers, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Reinhard Roy, Zdena Šafka, Daniel Sambo-Richter, Richard Sander, Willy Schmidt, Willy Schulz, Miloš Šejn, Ju Sobing, Norbert Strahl, Strawalde, Horst Strempel, Elżbieta Suchcicka, Richard Süßmuth, Heinrich Tischler, Renate Tost, Anna Trojanowska, Eva Vlasáková, Horst Weber, Johannes Wüsten
Miloš Šejn: Morfological study, 1976
Miloš Šejn: AGARA, 2019
Ostsächsische Kunsthalle Pulsnitz