19 April 2008 – 3 August 2008

BERNARD BUFFET

As the first major museum exhibition in Germany for many year, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst is showcasing 60 works by Bernard Buffet (1928 – 1999) stretching across six decades of artistic endeavor. The exhibition is thus dedicated to an artist who was once feted as being one of France’s most important painters and the legitimate successor of Picasso. As the »painter of existentialism« and the man who found the images to describe post-War sensitivities, Buffet’s works had a visual presence and renown in West Europe that almost no other painter has achieved since. This immense popularity in the 1950s and 1960s was followed by critics and the institutional art world both rejecting his work most incisively. The vitriolic tone of this rejection intimates that Buffet should be considered someone who was suppressed rather than forgotten.

Address

Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstrasse 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main
phone +49 69 21 23 04 47
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday till 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The basis of the museum is the heritage of the collector Karl Ströher with its rough 65 works of Pop- and Minimal-Art. Among others there are work groups of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol

opened 1991; Architects: Hans Hollein

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