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European Modern Sculptures
National Gallery Berlin
On 6th of February, the German President Joachim Gauck will inaugurate the
exhibition
European Modern Sculptures
National Gallery Berlin
at the Delhi Residence of the German Ambassador to India, Michael Steiner.
The exhibition will display 27 sculptures by renowned German and European
artists – from Hans Arp to Henry Moore –from the time between 1914 and 1958.
All art works come from the famous collection of the National Gallery, Berlin
State Museums, one of the leading art museums in Germany.
Thus, for the first time, one of the biggest German art collections will be guest at
the German Residence. It will offer an exemplary and most appealing hands-on
insight into what Berlin’s world-renowned museum landscape with its more than
175 museums and art collections has on offer.
The exhibition has been curated by Dr. Britta Schmitz, Chief Custodian of the
National Gallery, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Ambassador Michael Steiner: "I am very happy that we have been able to
bring such important works of modern art from Germany and Europe to
India. They represent German and European Avantgarde of the early 20th
century. Art is a universal language. Art sharpens one’s awareness, builds
bridges, connects across boundaries. The exhibition “European Modern
Sculptures National Gallery Berlin” is culture diplomacy in the very best
sense."
The exhibition gives an insight into the groundbreaking developments of art in the
20th century. The focus is on small-scale sculptures, which was the format
preferred by many prominent artists at that time. The observer can practically
“look over the shoulder” of the artists, thus capturing the undisturbed, intimate
Marino Marini's Kleiner
Jongleur from 1953 / ©
bpk / Nationalgalerie,
SMB / Walter Steinkopf
view of the emerging art work – a clear turning away from the heroic monumental
sculpture of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century.
Henry Moore, one of the great international artists of the 20th century, got to the
heart of the charm of this format: “A sculpture can be bigger than life-size, but
also a small sculpture, which has a big imagination behind it, is capable of
evoking the feeling of tremendousness and monumentality."
Moore’s renowned sculpture of the “Family Group” from 1944 is presented in the
exhibition, just like popular works from Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Ernst
Barlach, Karl Hartung, Georg Kolbe, Käthe Kollwitz, Henri Laurens, Manolo,
Gerhard Marcks, Marino Marini, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Renée Sintenis.
Amongst these is Sintenis’ most famous sculpture of the „Berlin Bear“, which is
awarded every year to the winner at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The National Gallery Berlin belongs to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,
which along with its seventeen state museums preserves the cultural heritage from
the antiquity to the non-European collections to contemporary art.
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