One of the world’s finest collections of 19th and 20th century art will come exclusively to Melbourne in just three weeks.European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th-20th Century will bring together almost 100 works by 70 artists from one of Germany’s oldest and most respected museums, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Dr Gerard Vaughan, NGV Director, said: “European Masters will present a comprehensive overview of the Städel Museum’s holdings of painting and sculpture from the last two centuries of European art.
“This blockbuster exhibition will provide a superb survey of the key artistic movements of the time, including Realism, Impressionism and Post Impressionism, German Romanticism, Expressionism and Modernism, and French Symbolism.” The exhibition will open with a series of large-scale romantic German paintings, including Johann H.W. Tischbein’s iconic Goethe in the Roman Campagna from 1787. Visitors will also be treated to magnificent examples of 19th century French art from Corot and Courbet’s Realist landscapes to well-known beautiful Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne. European Masters will then trace the development of German art, introducing audiences to rarely seen Realist and Symbolist masterpieces from artists such as Max Liebermann and Franz von Stuck.
Thanks to the generous peeps at the National Gallery of Victoria the five people listed below will receive tickets to this fantastic event.
Effie Bakkalis, Dingley Village
Katie Morrison, Carlton
Ling Tek Ming, Melbourne
Jennifer Bush, Elsternwick
Melody Young, Burwood East
The exhibition runs until 10 October.
IMAGE:
Ernst Ludwig KIRCHNER
German 1880–1938
Reclining woman in a white chemise 1909
(Liegende Frau im weiβen Hemd)
oil on canvas
95.0 x 121.0 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Acquired in 1950
