The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt features "Edvard Munch ~ The Modern Eye"

Written by Arne Westermann Friday, 10 February 2012 01:05

Frankfurt, Germany.- The Schirn Kunsthalle is pleased to present "Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye", on view at the museum from February 9th through May 6th. Edvard Munch is acclaimed for his vivid Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. Prepared together with the Centre Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the exhibition in the Schirn offers a novel view of his work. It is for the first time that Munch’s interest in modern techniques of creating pictures such as photography and film and modern stage designs is the focus of attention. His works reveal to what degree he adopted specifically photographic or filmic forms of composition and narration, poses, or even effects in his painting.

Supplementing the presentation of about sixty paintings and twenty works on paper, one chapter of the show is dedicated to Munch’s own attempts in the field of photography and film. A further dimension of the exhibition reveals how the artist dealt with one and the same subject in drawing, photography, painting, graphic art, and sculpture. The artist’s frequent return to already rendered motifs provides a crucial key to the understanding of Munch’s work. Edvard Munch is celebrated for his expressive symbolist painting and is considered a pioneer of Expressionism. The exhibition originated at the Schirn, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, offers a new perspective on his work.


For the first time Munch is made dealing with modern recording techniques such as photography and film to contemporary stage designs in the focus of attention. His works reveal the extent to which he does specifically photographic or filmic construction and narrative forms, postures, and even effects in his paintings. In addition to the approximately 60 paintings and 20 works on paper, a chapter of Munch's own experiments in the fields of photography and film is dedicated. Shown are 50 photographs and four movies in contemporary prints of Munch. Another aspect of the exhibition shows how the artist has processed one and the same subject in drawings, photography, painting, graphics and even sculpture. The frequent recovery of motives is an important key to the understanding of Munch's work.


The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is one of Germany’s most renowned exhibition institutions. Since its founding in 1986, the Schirn has mounted approximately 180 exhibitions, including major survey shows devoted to the Vienna Jugendstil, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism, to women Impressionists, to subjects such as “shopping — a century of art and consumer culture,” the visual art of the Stalin era, new Romanticism in contemporary art, and the influence of Charles Darwin’s theories on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Large solo exhibitions have featured artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Julian Schnabel, James Ensor, James Lee Byars, Yves Klein, Peter Doig, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, and Georges Seurat. And artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Carsten Nicolai, Jan De Cock, Jonathan Meese, John Bock, Michael Sailstorfer, Terence Koh, Aleksandra Mir, Eberhard Havekost, and Mike Bouchet have developed new exhibitions for the Schirn. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt showcases highly charged themes and topical aspects of artists’ oeuvres with an incisive voice and from a contemporary standpoint. As a site of discoveries, the Schirn offers its visitors an original, sensory exhibition experience as well as active participation in cultural discourse. Visit the kunsthalle's website at ... http://www.schirn.de

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