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CUBISM

The art movement that develops at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in France, marks the beginning of abstract and non-objective art: cubism.

LANDSCAPE

Reflection of human feelings or spiritual image of nature: these are common aspects of landscape painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. But the special genre of representational painting did not always occupy such a high place.

LIGHT ART

Art with light? With artificial light? Eectrical light is one of the prerequisites for creating what is now called light art. The examination with predominantly artificial light, is a relatively young, but increasingly independent art genre.

MINIMAL ART

Elementary forms, serial arrangements, industrial materials and production methods are the hallmarks of Minimal Art, which developed in the 1960s as a counter-movement to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

NEW LEIPZIG SCHOOL

"Leipzig is coming" was the confident slogan in the 2003 catalog for the exhibition sieben mal malerei (seven times painting) - and the seven painting graduates of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts were to be proven right.

POLAROID

The Polaroid is unique, as unique as every moment. Invented as early as 1947 and temporarily declared dead, the instant picture is experiencing an unexpected renaissance today.

POP ART

Whether Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, or Robert Rauschenberg: no other concept of style in the modern art history of the 20th century has shaped our idea of aesthetics, design, and the "American way of life" as decisively as Pop Art.

PORTRAIT

The depiction of the human figure is one of the oldest motifs in painting. But it was not until the Renaissance and its new view of man as an autonomous individual that the portrait gained in importance.

POSTMODERNISM

It is to be seen as a countermovement to modernity, which is increasingly perceived as sterile and totalitarian: Postmodernism. A spiritual-cultural movement whose beginnings lie in the second half of the 20th century.

INSIGHT INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Insights into private art collections: Whether old masters or contemporaries, art is booming. More and more art enthusiasts are building up their own, often contemporary, collections. Thus, great art treasures are often hidden in private rooms.

READYMADE

Plaything of Dadaism and the Surrealists, icon for Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual Art: the Readymades, inseparable from Marcel Duchamp, revolutionized the concept of art and the understanding of art.

RENAISSANCE PAINTING

Starting in Italy, the Renaissance saw the development of a new world view and a new art whose influence on later generations was overwhelming. However, "Renaissance" did not become an epochal term until the 19th century.

ROMANTICISM

Romanticism can be understood as a basic spiritual attitude centered on human sensitivity and sentimentality and a longing for a lost harmonious world structure.

SCANDINAVIAN ART AROUND 1900

It was not until the 19th century that an independent art scene developed in the northern European countries. Edvard Munch is Scandinavia's best-known artist. Many of his contemporaries have been rediscovered only in recent years.

STILL LIFES

For centuries they have fascinated painters and viewers alike: carefully arranged still lifes.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Street photography operates mainly at eye level - at street level - and shows situations and people in (mostly) urban space. The rhythms of the city are translated into a celebration of the momentary.

SURREALISM

The founders of Surrealism did not initially see themselves as representatives of a new art movement, but rather as advocates of a revolutionary worldview in which the unconscious, the paradoxical, and the dreamlike played a primary role.

VIDEO ART

Originating as an art form in the early 1960s in Germany and America, it has since advanced to become one of the most influential genres of 20th century art: video art.

FROM WORD TO IMAGE: THE POET AS VISUAL ARTIST

Many poets and thinkers - of all epochs and colors - took up the pen with just as much passion as they did the brush or drawing pencil. As artistic double talents, they moved gropingly or confidently in two worlds that enlivened each other.

ZERO

End of painting, new beginning of art: Zero marks, as it were, the zero point before the new artistic beginning and changed the face of German post-war art so profoundly and lastingly that the effects are still noticeable today.