22 February 2008 – 25 May 2008

FROM BASELITZ TO LASSNIG

Although often declared dead in the 20th century, painting is more alive than ever. In the 1960s and 70s conceptual art, happenings, Fluxus, video and the use of new media seemed the only thing to do, and this trend was partly corroborated by the 1990s. The consistent and powerful work of German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Luepertz, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke and Austrian painters such as Maria Lassnig and Arnulf Rainer has demonstrated, however, that painting is a medium that offers an infinity of forward-looking opportunities. These artists have developed inimitable, powerful and very divergent approaches, have explored their subjects, negated them, put them upside down, and thus given a multiplicity of subjective painters’ comments on reality. This was the generation of painters that marked the young painters in the early 1980s and late 1990s.

Address

Essl Museum - Contemporary Art
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg / Wien
phone +43 224 33 70 50 150
http://www.essl.museum

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday till 9 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The collection of international contemporanean art of Agnes and Karlheinz Essl consisting of 5.000 works offers a view on the art of the 20th and the beginning 21st centuries.

exhibition house opened 1999; architect: Heinz Tesar

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