19.09.2025 – 11.01.2026
Modernism is commonly understood as a fundamental break with tradition. However, the fact that the deliberate recourse to the distant past of the late Middle Ages played a central role in the reinvention of art around 1900 has so far remained unexamined. The exhibition sheds light on a development in the period from 1870 to 1920, in which numerous artists such as Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix consciously drew inspiration from the expressive art of Holbein, Dürer, Cranach and Baldung Grien. The encounter with medieval aesthetics evoked great emotions and opened up new ways for the artists to deal with the fundamental questions of human existence. The exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum combines modern masterpieces with those of the 15th and early 16th centuries uniquely.
GOTHIC MODERN – MUNCH, BECKMANN, KOLLWITZ
19.09.2025 – 11.01.2026
Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
www.albertina.at
