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Stop 22: The Expressionist Tradition

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:57


Paula Modersohn-Becker was an important early Expressionist. She was a member of the Worpswede Colony, a group of artists that had retreated to the northern German countryside to paint landscapes.

Stop 21: Städel: The Nazis and Degenerate Art

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 4:25


The Städel Museum had amassed an incredible collection of Modern Art. However, under Nazi rule, the Städel’s collection was declared ‘degenerate’ and decimated.

Stop 20: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Freedom in our work and in our lives

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 3:46


The Bridge formed in Dresden in 1905. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a driving force of the group, which renounced earlier traditions of art.

Stop 19: The Fragmentation of the Avant-Garde

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:17


Throughout last century, different groups of artists across Europe were experimenting with bold ideas and forms. Max Ernst was a Dadaist and Surrealist, and Paul Klee part of the Bauhaus movement.

Stop 18: The Bridge and The Blue Rider

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 1:40


The proto-Modernist movement, the Blaue Reiter group was interested in Cubism and Abstraction. It included Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej Jawlensky and Paul Klee.

Stop 16: Max Beckmann Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:43


Beckmann’s outlook and style were profoundly affected by his experience of World War I. His paintings are tense and angular, conveying his sense of disquiet and anxiety.

Stop 17: Max Beckmann Part 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:13


Declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis, Max Beckmann was banned from exhibiting. His later works are full of the dread that settled around Europe during the war years.

Stop 15: Max Beckmann Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 3:47


Max Beckmann was a hugely influential German painter. A young prodigy, he dismissed Expressionism and abstraction and insisted that art be an unsentimental look at contemporary life.

Stop 14: James Ensor: Strange Imaginings

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:02


The works of James Ensor, with their strange imaginings and macabre visions, resist categorisation. Ensor and Fernand Khnopff were founding members of the Belgian avant-garde group Les XX – or The Twenty.

Stop 13: The Nabis

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 5:03


Les Nabis experimented with bold colouring and abstraction, taking inspiration from Paul Gauguin. They included Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Aristide Maillol and Edouard Vuillard.

Stop 12: Germany: Impressionists and Realists

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 3:40


The ‘Leibl Circle’ was an important group of German Realist artists. An introduction to members Wilhelm Leibl and Wilhelm Trübner, and key figures in Naturalism: Wilhelm Altheim and Fritz von Uhde.

Stop 11: Germany: Anti-Naturalist Traditions

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 3:49


German anti-Naturalist artists looked to the golden age of Antiquity for their subject matter. Arnold Böcklin, Max Klinger, Anselm and Feuerbach relocated to Rome and became known as ‘German Romans’.

Stop 10: Symbolism: The Flowers of Evil

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 4:02


Symbolism was a pan-European phenomenon that developed as a reaction to the ‘grubby truths’ of Realism. Gustave Moreau was an important precursor to the Symbolism movement, which included Odilon Redon.

Stop 09: Degas & Critiques of Impressionism

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 4:01


Although a member of the group, Degas’s painting style contrasted with the predominant French Impressionist style. He was a classical painter and draftsman who depicted modern life.

Stop 08: Renoir & The Exhibition of Rejects

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 5:29


In 1874 Impressionists Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley mounted a series of exhibitions in defiance of the powerful Paris Salon.

Stop 07: Courbet & Realism: Art dragged into the gutter

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 2:43


Courbet was part of the French Realist movement, who shunned the subjects of classical imagery to instead paint contemporary life.

Stop 06: Monet & Impressionism: The light and the air

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2010 3:03


Monet was the leader of the French Impressionists, a group who dragged their easels outside to paint en plein air to capture the changeable nature of light and colour.

Stop 05: Corot & the Barbizon School: The harmony of the tones

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2010 2:00


French artist Jean-Baptist Corot was a leading member of the Barbizon School, a group that championed Realism and whose plein air studies of nature anticipated the work of the Impressionists.

Stop 04: Romanticism: Painting is life itself!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2010 4:54


An introduction to Claude Monet’s pre-Impressionist work and French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix, who brought passion and intensity to historical and mythological subject matter.

Stop 03: The Nazarenes

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2010 1:51


The Nazarenes were a religious association of Viennese artists working in Rome, who rejected the highly formal traditions of the Academy to create work that was a statement of their feelings and beliefs.

Stop 02: A Focus on Nature: Friedrich and Dahl

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2010 1:59


Against a tradition of Neo-Classicism, artists began to record their observations of nature. German painters Caspar David Friedrich and Johann Christian Dahl sought to evoke ethereal elements such as clouds or light.

Stop 01: Introduction to Städel and His Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2010 5:15


Narrator William McInnes provides an historical overview of Frankfurt and Germany in the 1800s, a period in which Johann Frederick Städel began building what would become a significant personal art collection.

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