SEASCAPES

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SEASCAPES. From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter | Jun 8th - Sep 16th 2007 | special exhibition
catalogue for special exhibition | 216 pages | 115 illustrations | hardcover | Hirmer Verlag | german edition

Around 100 works finally free the maritime genre from its reputation as staid living room art. The artistic exploration of the representation of ships, harbors, and seas is of central importance to the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. This catalog book is the first to provide an in-depth overview of the development of maritime themes from classical modernism to contemporary international art.
The vastness of the sea, its secrets and stories have always exerted a great fascination. For the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, the artistic examination of the representation of seas, harbors, and ships has been of central importance. Experiences as diverse as the preoccupation with the unconscious, the experience of the two world wars, modern consumer society, and a completely changed contemporary perception of nature have all shaped the treatment of the maritime subject.
The catalog traces the development of maritime themes from classical modernism to contemporary international art, ranging from painting to contemporary forms of expression such as installation, photography, and video. Max Beckmann's beach landscapes defined by the Mediterranean sun, Lyonel Feininger's architectural images of the calm of the sea, Paul Klee's imaginative compositions with steamships and sailboats, and Max Ernst's surrealist interpretations of the sea are presented. New Objectivity art is represented by works by Otto Dix and Franz Radziwill. After World War II, it is artists such as Willi Baumeister and Nicolas de Staël who redefine the historical pictorial type and transform the seascape into an abstract formal language. They are followed by the Pop Art artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, for whose works the clichés of the seaside conveyed by advertising play an important role. For the next generation of artists, too, the fascination of the seaside remains unbroken. While Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer painted their first seascapes as early as around 1970, many artists have rediscovered the maritime for themselves, especially in recent years.
The artistic exploration of the depiction of ships, harbors and seas is of central importance to the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. For the first time, this catalog book provides an in-depth overview of the development of maritime themes from classical modernism to contemporary international art.