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| Price | 35,00 € |
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Rendezvous of Dreams - Surrealism and German Romanticism
13.06.2025 - 12.10.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue | Language German
The members' price is reserved exclusively for members of the Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V.
Surrealism, the most famous artistic movement of the 20th century, emerged in Paris 100 years ago. It was rooted in a revaluation of all values as a result of the First World War and characterised the 20th century like no other movement. One of Surrealism's most important intellectual affinities was with German Romanticism: the supernatural and irrational, dreams and chance, community and encounters with a changing nature were key sources of inspiration for German Romanticism, which international Surrealism appropriated in a different way a century later. From André Breton's first manifesto in 1924 onwards, the fascinating proximity in questions, attitudes, motifs and pictorial processes becomes clear.
Selected surrealist masterpieces by Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Valentine Hugo, Toyen, André Masson, Paul Klee and many others show that alongside poets such as Novalis, Achim and Bettina von Arnim, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode, the great Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810) also played an important role in the search for revolutionary art in the 20th century.
Surprisingly, more direct references to German Romanticism emerged particularly during the resistance and exile during the Second World War. In a broader sense, comparable basic ideas about the cosmos, nature, dreams, inner vision and community are recognisable during the activities of Surrealism from 1924 to 1966.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Surrealism, the exhibition, which spans several epochs, invites visitors to approach the artistic, poetic and intellectual diversity of Surrealist art against the backdrop of German Romanticism in order to recognise analogies and peculiarities. It brings together over 180 icons of Surrealism and over 60 core works of German Romanticism, which are presented together. In keeping with the multidisciplinary approach of both movements, paintings, drawings, sculptures, literature, films, photographs and objects are on display.
The juxtaposition of Surrealism and German Romanticism is at the heart of the Hamburg collection: Max Ernst, after his first visit to the Kunsthalle on the occasion of receiving the Lichtwark Prize in 1964, refers directly to Runge's key work of German Romanticism seen here, Morgen (first version) (1808), in Ein schöner Morgen (Un beau matin) (1965).
High-calibre loans, some of which have never been exhibited before, also come from national and international private collections and major museums in Mexico, the USA and throughout Europe, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington (USA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Tate, London; Musée Cantini, Marseille; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunsthalle Praha; Kunstmuseum Bern; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and many more, as well as many European private collections, some of which are still unknown.
Curator and editor Dr Annabelle Görgen-Lammers
Assistant curators Vera Bornkessel (since Oct 2024) / Maria Sitte (since Feb 2024)
Research trainee Laura Förster (Jan - Sept 2024)
Hatje Cantz Verlag | Hardcover | 344 pages | 300 images | 22 x 32 cm | Language German
13.06.2025 - 12.10.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue | Language German
The members' price is reserved exclusively for members of the Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V.
Surrealism, the most famous artistic movement of the 20th century, emerged in Paris 100 years ago. It was rooted in a revaluation of all values as a result of the First World War and characterised the 20th century like no other movement. One of Surrealism's most important intellectual affinities was with German Romanticism: the supernatural and irrational, dreams and chance, community and encounters with a changing nature were key sources of inspiration for German Romanticism, which international Surrealism appropriated in a different way a century later. From André Breton's first manifesto in 1924 onwards, the fascinating proximity in questions, attitudes, motifs and pictorial processes becomes clear.
Selected surrealist masterpieces by Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Valentine Hugo, Toyen, André Masson, Paul Klee and many others show that alongside poets such as Novalis, Achim and Bettina von Arnim, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode, the great Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810) also played an important role in the search for revolutionary art in the 20th century.
Surprisingly, more direct references to German Romanticism emerged particularly during the resistance and exile during the Second World War. In a broader sense, comparable basic ideas about the cosmos, nature, dreams, inner vision and community are recognisable during the activities of Surrealism from 1924 to 1966.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Surrealism, the exhibition, which spans several epochs, invites visitors to approach the artistic, poetic and intellectual diversity of Surrealist art against the backdrop of German Romanticism in order to recognise analogies and peculiarities. It brings together over 180 icons of Surrealism and over 60 core works of German Romanticism, which are presented together. In keeping with the multidisciplinary approach of both movements, paintings, drawings, sculptures, literature, films, photographs and objects are on display.
The juxtaposition of Surrealism and German Romanticism is at the heart of the Hamburg collection: Max Ernst, after his first visit to the Kunsthalle on the occasion of receiving the Lichtwark Prize in 1964, refers directly to Runge's key work of German Romanticism seen here, Morgen (first version) (1808), in Ein schöner Morgen (Un beau matin) (1965).
High-calibre loans, some of which have never been exhibited before, also come from national and international private collections and major museums in Mexico, the USA and throughout Europe, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington (USA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Tate, London; Musée Cantini, Marseille; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunsthalle Praha; Kunstmuseum Bern; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and many more, as well as many European private collections, some of which are still unknown.
Curator and editor Dr Annabelle Görgen-Lammers
Assistant curators Vera Bornkessel (since Oct 2024) / Maria Sitte (since Feb 2024)
Research trainee Laura Förster (Jan - Sept 2024)
Hatje Cantz Verlag | Hardcover | 344 pages | 300 images | 22 x 32 cm | Language German