11-12-2024

Hans Thoma – Between Poetry and Reality

Augustinermuseum

14 December 2024 – 30 March 2025

Photo: Patrick Seeger

Hans Thoma (1839–1924), an important nineteenth-century German artist, is known and appreciated for his highly distinctive landscapes and genre paintings. He is currently the subject of critical debate due to his proximity to ethnic-chauvinist and nationalist positions. On the occasion of the centennial of his death, the Augustinermuseum is taking a differentiated look at his work and inviting visitors to form their own opinions.
The exhibition focuses on Thomas' diverse graphic oeuvre featuring numerous rare prints. In addition, there are paintings and objects in the field of arts and crafts. Alongside the realist's iconic depictions of the Black Forest and genre scenes, there are also some surprising lesser-known compositions that reveal manifest art nouveau and Symbolist influences, as well as a number of impressive portraits. In a separate group of works, the Hans Thoma Prize winner Marcel van Eeden comments on the problematic connection between Thoma and the anti-Semitic, racist Bayreuth Circle around Cosima Wagner. Indeed, he initiated the debate about the artist.

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11-12-2024
Photo: Axel Killian

26. April – 17. August 2025

Alter! Grafik aus fünf Jahrhunderten

Haus der Graphischen Sammlung

Wise, kind and experienced or frail, stubborn and unattractive - there are very different images of old people, also in art. How do such contradictory associations come about? Who or what is considered old and why? Age(ing) is relative. Cultural background, gender and social status all play a role. The exhibition shows prints from the early modern period to the 20th century, including Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Käthe Kollwitz and Pablo Picasso.

11-12-2024
Photo: Axel Killian

24. Mai – 30. November 2025

Licht und Landschaft. Impressionisten in der Normandie

Augustinermuseum

Rugged cliffs or long sandy beaches, sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent seas, blue skies or high cloudy mountains: more than seventy works – by artists such as Jean-Gustave Courbet, Baptiste Camille Corot and Claude Monet – show the importance of Normandy for Impressionism. Those who paint in the open air here have to work quickly, as the weather changes rapidly. This results in fleeting, atmospheric snapshots that characterise the style. The exhibition is based on the ‘Peindre en Normandie’ collection of the same name, which was founded in Caen in the 1990s.


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