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GERMANY / Berlin: Otto Mueller and his Network in Wrocław
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday March 03 2019

Hamburger Bahnof
T : +49 (0) 30 39 78 34 11
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
Germany



From Berlin to Wrocław: for the first time an exhibition addresses the huge artistic influence of Die Brücke painter and German expressionist Otto Mueller (1874–1930). As a mentor for a younger generation, he taught for more than 10 years at the State Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Wrocław, which in the 1920s was regarded as one of Europe’s most progressive art schools. Here, the various movements in painting at the time were seen as equals: Académie Matisse, Expressionism, New Objectivity and Bauhaus. Otto Mueller, who was nonconformist, charismatic and enthusiastic about ideas of freedom, had significant influence on the local art scene. The brilliance of his work in Wrocław – enhanced and intensified by his artistic network – extends into post-war modernism. This exhibition will for the first time draw greater attention to an important joint chapter in German-Polish art history.

© Modem