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 Amedeo Modigliani:  Reclining Nude (on the Left Side) (Detail) , 1917

Modigliani: Modern Gazes

April 27 – August 18, 2024

Amedeo Modigliani was a European artist in the broadest and most innovative sense. Focusing on the image of the human being, on the physical and on self-confident femininity, Amedeo Modigliani positioned himself as a pioneer of modernism at a time of dissolution of form, abstraction and misogyny at the beginning of the 20th century. During World War I, his portraits and nudes accompanied and shaped the development of the human image of a young generation of artists working on figuration in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, or Dresden. For the first time, an exhibition on Modigliani broadens the view beyond Paris and considers his work from a European perspective.

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 Amedeo Modigliani,  Lying female nude with intertwined hands , 1917

Amedeo Modigliani, Lying female nude with intertwined hands, 1917

"The last Modigliani retrospective in Germany took place in 2009 at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. Exhibitions, whether in Madrid, London, Helsinki or New York, focused on Modigliani's Parisian environment and Modigliani's friendships with writers and collectors. Yet there is still no exhibition that asks, in the context of international modernism, what the specific provocation of Modigliani's works lay in. Our exhibition expands the context of Modigliani's art beyond its Parisian surroundings for the first time and shows references to Paula Modersohn-Becker, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner." - Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini, and Christiane Lange, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

 Jean Cocteau,  Artists in front of the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, from left to right: Moïse Kisling, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, Emilienne Pâquerette , August, 12, 1916

Jean Cocteau, Artists in front of the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, from left to right: Moïse Kisling, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, Emilienne Pâquerette, August, 12, 1916

 Dominique Couto,  Modigliani in his studio, rue Ravignan (detail) , 1915 

Dominique Couto, Modigliani in his studio, rue Ravignan (detail), 1915 

 Amedeo Modigliani,  Girl with a striped blouse , 1917

Amedeo Modigliani, Girl with a striped blouse, 1917

 Jeanne Mammen,  Sketchbook , 1914

Jeanne Mammen, Sketchbook, 1914