Alte Nationalgalerie presents “Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann”

From 23 June to 22 October 2023, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin presents the exhibition “Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann”

Source: Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Image: Gustav Klimt, “Pallas Athene” (detail), 1898

The emergence of the Secession movements in the late 19th century triggered no less than a revolution in the art world. This proto-Modernist moment was inextricably linked with Gustav Klimt in Vienna, while in Munich and Berlin, the protagonists were Franz von Stuck and Max Liebermann respectively.

The Secession movements emerged in the German-speaking world in close succession with one another – in 1892 in Munich, 1897 in Vienna and finally in Berlin in 1898 – and all featured a significant overlap in terms of the key protagonists. Rejecting the outmoded structures of government support and exhibition systems in which selection panels applied the criteria of the royal art academies, these artists strove for freedom. Though their individual artistic approaches were by no means unified, this artistic vanguard sought to foster the vibrancy and diversity of artistic forms of expression, with a decidedly international outlook.

“Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann” comprises some 200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by a range of artists. Through a collaboration with the Wien Museum, Klimt’s oeuvre will form the focus of the exhibition, with more than 50 works on display. The show will also shine a spotlight on some of the women artists of the Secession movements, from Dora Hitz to Käthe Kollwitz.

Alte Nationalgalerie presents “Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann”

From 23 June to 22 October 2023, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin presents the exhibition “Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann”

Source: Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Image: Gustav Klimt, “Pallas Athene” (detail), 1898

The emergence of the Secession movements in the late 19th century triggered no less than a revolution in the art world. This proto-Modernist moment was inextricably linked with Gustav Klimt in Vienna, while in Munich and Berlin, the protagonists were Franz von Stuck and Max Liebermann respectively.

The Secession movements emerged in the German-speaking world in close succession with one another – in 1892 in Munich, 1897 in Vienna and finally in Berlin in 1898 – and all featured a significant overlap in terms of the key protagonists. Rejecting the outmoded structures of government support and exhibition systems in which selection panels applied the criteria of the royal art academies, these artists strove for freedom. Though their individual artistic approaches were by no means unified, this artistic vanguard sought to foster the vibrancy and diversity of artistic forms of expression, with a decidedly international outlook.

“Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann” comprises some 200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by a range of artists. Through a collaboration with the Wien Museum, Klimt’s oeuvre will form the focus of the exhibition, with more than 50 works on display. The show will also shine a spotlight on some of the women artists of the Secession movements, from Dora Hitz to Käthe Kollwitz.