Trailer: Modigliani: Modern Gazes
Almond-shaped, sightless eyes are an unmistakable feature of Modigliani’s style. With their stoic noblesse, his portraits and nudes have become icons of modern art. Like Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani provoked both hostility and admiration, and his early death encouraged the creation of legends. Only a few of his pieces are found in German collections. The show Modigliani: Modern Gazes, the first exhibition of his work in Germany in fifteen years, offers a revised image of Modigliani, presenting him as an artist who turned his gaze to emancipated women.
The exhibition brings together fifty-six of Modigliani’s portraits and nudes in dialogue with thirty-three paintings, drawings, and sculptures by artists such as Gustav Klimt, Jeanne Mammen, Pablo Picasso, Natalia Goncharova, Egon Schiele, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. International lenders include the Albertina, Vienna, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, the Nahmad Collection, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, the Tate, London, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
An exhibition of the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, under the patronage of the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Germany.
The exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will be on view from November 24, 2023 to April 1, 2024.