Art history up close: The new gallery shows hidden treasures!

Art history up close: The new gallery shows hidden treasures!

In the new gallery Graz, a remarkable exhibition is currently running that makes art history tangible: "foreign and well -known". Under the curating of Günther Holler cobbler, almost 150 exhibits were selected from over 70,000 works of art, which provide an exciting insight into almost 200 years of art development. This show, which lively illustrated how life in the 19th century was, shows which romanticized ideas the people lived at the time. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's portraits in particular reflect an idealized world of the rural population, as Holler-Schuster explains.

highlights of the exhibition

The exhibition not only shows works by Waldmüller, but also by artists such as Herbert Böckl and Hubert Schmalix. Among them are also important urban representations of the artist Wilhelm Thöny, who impresses with his perspective on the lifestyle of the modern world. Thöny, born in Graz in 1888 and with a diverse career in cities such as Munich, Paris and New York, played a central role in European modern painting. A monograph, which was published in 2013 for the exhibition "Wilhelm Thöny - in the Recycling Modern pull", offers a comprehensive analysis of his life and work. This publication is a valuable reference work that provides both biographical and artistic insights and underlines the relevance of Thöny's work to the present day, such as Museum-joanneum determined.

The exhibition also shows how the view of the "stranger" was influenced by time and culture. This is presented by images that complete the cliché formation of the so -called "noble wild" in a romantized form. Anyone who visits the exhibition can become part of the artistic process through the interaction with works of art, such as the one-minute sculptures of Erwin Wurm and experience the connection between viewer and art, as it describes.