Leo Putz
Die Schwestern Haun im Kahn, 1910-1911
© Landessammlungen NÖ

ART TREASURES

FROM THE BAROQUE TO THE PRESENT

23 Mar 2024 – 15 Sep 2024

ART TREASURES

Lower Austria is a cultural landscape with a long-standing art tradition. The first portrayals of Venus came about in the old Stone Age. Today, the nation owns an important art collection of international standing. With the title ART TREASURES. FROM THE BAROQUE TO THE PRESENT this selection of treasures from the Lower Austrian national collections will be shown for the first time in Germany.

The show focuses on high carat works of paintings, sculptures and photographs as well as selected video works. The oldest work in the show is a baroque altarpiece from 1772 by Martin Johann Schmidt, the youngest a conceptual contemporary painting by Franziska Maderthaner of the year 2021. The exhibition spans over 250 years and gives an overview of the main directions of development in Austrian art history.

An exhibition of the Kunsthalle Tübingen in cooperation with the national gallery of Lower Austria and the national collection of Lower Austria.

 

Curators: Dr. Nicole Fritz, Dr. Gerda Ridler, Dr. Nikolaus Kratzer

 

Künstler*innen der Ausstellung 

Ferdinand Andri, Maria Biljan-Bilger, Herbert Boeckl, Herbert Brandl, Ferdinand Brunner, Gunter Damisch,  Die Damen, Padhi Frieberger, Helene Funke, Gelitin, Anton Hanak, Marcel Houf, Isolde Maria Joham, Hildegard Joos, Johanna Kandl, Oskar Kokoschka, Brigitte Kowanz, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Heinz Leinfellner, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Johann Peter Krafft, Maria Lassnig, Friedrich Loos, Franziska Maderthaner, Joseph Marsteurer, Michael Neder, Hermann Josef Painitz, Sergius Pauser, Helga Philipp,  Margot Pilz, Leo Putz, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Reinhold, Anton Romako, Robert Russ, Hubert Scheibl, Roman Scheidl, Egon Schiele, Martin Johann Schmidt, Josef Schwaiger, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Erwin Wurm, Michael Wutky

 

The exhibition is supported by

 

Minister-president Winfried Kretschmann is taking on the patronage for this exhibition