Century exhibition of German art

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The exhibition of the century of German art took place in Berlin in 1906 . It gave a relatively complete overview of the art of German-speaking countries, including Germany , Austria and Switzerland , in the period from 1775 to 1875. Together with large German and foreign museums and private collectors, this was able to date from the last decade of the 19th century original plan of the Nationalgalerie can be realized.

The exhibition was housed in all rooms of the National Gallery and in four rooms of the Neues Museum . Over 2000 pictures, more than 3000 drawings and some sculptures were shown. The exhibition, organized by Hugo von Tschudi , Woldemar von Seidlitz and unofficially also by Julius Meier-Graefe , deliberately kept a distance from the contemporary art controversy and did not focus on the well-known schools that were celebrated by contemporaries.

The art of the 19th century was presented from the perspective of impressionism , so that rather unknown or little known artists came into play. The rediscovered painters included Caspar David Friedrich , Philipp Otto Runge , Carl Blechen , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Ferdinand von Rayski and Friedrich Wasmann ; The importance of Leibl , Mareés , Feuerbach and Victor Müller was also recognized.

At a time when, in addition to the established German impressionists of the second generation, the young expressionists began to assert themselves and great loners enriched the art scene, the exhibition of the century was granted unimagined success.

The exhibition poster was designed by Peter Behrens .

literature

  • Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9 , p. 513.
  • Board of Directors of the German Century Exhibition (publisher): Catalog for the “Exhibition of German Art from the Period 1775–1875 in the Royal National Gallery, Berlin 1906”. 2 volumes. F. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1906. archive.org archive.org
  • Peter-Klaus Schuster (editor): The Old National Gallery. SMB-DuMont, Berlin / Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7370-6 , p. 165.
  • Revaluation of German Art - German Century Exhibition 1906. In: Olivia Zorn u. a. (Ed.): The Museum Island. History and stories , Berlin: Elsengold [2019], ISBN 9783962010164 , pp. 94–97.

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