Around 1905, a new generation of French artists experimented with explosive color. The painters became known as Fauvists or “wild beasts”. Maurice de Vlaminck identified with this attribution like no other member of the group, staunchly propagating the self-image as a modern artist rebel. Featuring around 70 loans from more than 40 international collections, the exhibition provides a wide-ranging overview of Vlaminck’s entire artistic output. The focus lies on his Fauvist landscape paintings, with which he became one of the most influential precursors of Expressionism. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Vlaminck’s oeuvre in Germany.

The conference prepares the show, which will be on view at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam from September 14, 2024, to January 12, 2025. Cooperation partner is the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, where the show will be on display from February 8 to May 18, 2025.

11 a.m.
Welcome
Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Dr. Roland Mönig, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

11:15 a.m.
“Destined by Fate”: Vlaminck and Fauvism (in German)
Heinz Widauer, Art historian, Vienna

12:15 p.m.
Play of Pure Color: Vlaminck and Tube Painting (in German)
Prof. Matthias Krüger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

1:15 p.m.
Lunch break

2:30 p.m.
“My Inner Being Deeply Shaken”: Vlaminck’s Reception of Van Gogh (in English)
Lisa Smit, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

3 p.m.
Anarchy of Color: Vlaminck as an Artist Rebel (in German)
Dr. Daniel Zamani, Museum Barberini, Potsdam

4 p.m.
Related Forms: Cézanne, Picasso, Vlaminck (in German)
Dr. Anna Storm, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

5 p.m.
Coffee break

5:30 p.m.
A Fauve along the Banks of the Seine: Vlaminck’s Landscapes (in French)
Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Art historian, Le Bosc

6:30 p.m.
Reception