"The Twentieth Century - A Century of Art in Germany".ALTES MUSEUM The Altes Museum or Old Museum (until 1845 Royal Museum) located on Berlin's Museum Island was built between 1825 and 1828 by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the neoclassical style to house the Prussian Royal family's art collection. , NEUE NATIONAL-GALERIE, HAMBURGER BAHNHOF
Hamburger Bahnhof is a former train station in Berlin, Germany on Invalidenstraße in the Berlin-Tiergarten district opposite the Charité. , KULTURFORUM The most extensive exhibition of German art at the end of the century recalls the similarly mammoth venture in 1906, when the entire Nationalgalerie was emptied to show a survey of German art from 1775 through 1875. For the twentieth century, one needs four such buildings to present the full spectrum, ranging from Franz Marc Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement. Career Marc was born of Wilhelm and Sophie Marc, Wilhelm a professional landscape painter and Sophie a strict Calvinist. to Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke (born February 13 1941) is a German post-modern painter and photographer. Life and works Polke was born in Oels in Lower Silesia. He fled with his family to Thuringia in 1945 during the Expulsions of Germans after World War II. . To ensure that the spectacle isn't lost in its own boundlessness, the show is arranged thematically, under rubrics like "The Violence of Art," "Matter and Spirit," and "Collage-Montage," which treats film as the presiding medium of the moderns. Sept. 4, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000. |
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