What Threatens to Disappear Becomes Image

Description

It is a commonplace, both frightening and fascinating: everything captured in images no longer exists or no longer in the depicted form. In art, the theme of transience is often symbolically expressed, as a Memento Mori or a melancholic meditation on the disappearance of things. Images of dreams, encounters with people, explorations of nature also show only fleeting moments. Sometimes the fleeting is explicitly the subject of a depiction that still seeks to capture it: clouds constantly change, snow melts soon, trees bloom only for a short time. In times of climate change, the awareness that our entire environment is changing rapidly has become ubiquitous. Therefore, we look at landscape art today with different eyes. They show a nature that has always been influenced by humans. A landscape is no longer just a beautiful sight but a threatened ecosystem. The exhibition is built around such moments of recognition. It shows well-known as well as rare or previously unseen works from the 19th and 20th centuries from the collections of the Lenbachhaus, the Historical Society of Upper Bavaria, the Christoph Heilmann Foundation, the Munich Secession, the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, the KiCo Foundation, and the Förderverein Lenbachhaus e. V. Art works deal with transience and with the knowledge of transience. In this, it aligns with the idea of the museum, which collects, preserves, and also aims to communicate artworks. Featuring works by: Albrecht Adam, Antoine-Louis Barye, Joseph Beaume, Rosa Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, Heinrich Bürkel, Maria Caspar-Filser, Lovis Corinth, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Johan Christian Dahl, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz de la Peña, Jules Luis Dupré, Maria Eichhorn, Thomas Fearnley, Thomas Theodor Heine, Jacques Hérold, Wilhelm Jakob Hertling, Paul Hoecker, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Leibl, Franz Marc, Pierre-Jules Mêne, Christiane Möbus, Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, Gabriele Münter, Jean Bloé Niestlé, Blinky Palermo, Leo Putz, Gerhard Richter, Richard Riemerschmid, Carl Rottmann, Théodore Rousseau, Eduard Schleich d. Ä., Johann Sperl, Carl Spitzweg, Toni Stadler, Wilhelm Trübner, Timm Ulrichs, Johann Georg von Dillis, Wilhelm von Kobell, Franz von Lenbach, Gabriel von Max, Max Joseph Wagenbauer, Fritz Winter

Highlights

• Exhibition on transience in landscape art
• Works from the 19th and 20th centuries
• Presented by renowned collections

General Information

The exhibition "What Threatens to Disappear Becomes Image" at the Lenbachhaus in Munich addresses the changes in our environment in the context of climate change. It shows a selection of well-known and rare artworks that reflect the transience of nature and its influence by humans.

Location

Luisenstraße 33, 80333 München, Germany

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