Bank Austria Kunstforum | Fascination Japan: Monet. Van Gogh. Klimt
FASCINATION JAPAN: MONET. VAN GOGH. KLIMT
10 OCTOBER 2018 - 20 JANUARY 2019
BANK AUSTRIA KUNSTFORUM | VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Claude Monet. Waterloo Bridge, 1902
Oil on Canvas, 65 x 100 cm
Kunsthaus Zürich, Geschenk Walter Haefner, 1995
Beginning in the 1860s, the elegant and exotic look of everyday Japanese objects, the exquisite textiles and most of all the vividly imaginative narrative qualities of ukiyo-e, conquered the European market and fulfilled the public’s yearnings for an unknown culture and a new kind of aesthetic. Artists were at the forefront in collecting and integrating the strange vocabulary of forms into the Western idiom.
In Fascination Japan, around one-hundred works from international public and private collections will present a wide-ranging overview of the “Japonisme” that spread throughout Europe beginning in the late-19th century and up until the beginning of the avant-garde.
The exhibition will include paintings and printed graphics, as well as objects and furniture, by Western artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the Nabis and the Blauer Reiter (The Blue Rider), juxtaposed with Japanese woodcuts, screens and objects.
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