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Talk: "Is the exhibition enjoying further unpopularity?" Modern art in difficult times

Durs Grünbein in conversation with Matthias Weichelt from the series "Chemnitzer Akademie-Gespräche"
[Translate to Englisch:] William Roberts, Les Routiers, um 1931, Öl auf Leinwand, Courtesy of Board of Trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland ©️ Estate of John David Roberts. By permission of the Treasury Solicitor, Ulster Museum Collection

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Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser
Stollberger Straße 2, 09119 Chemnitz
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Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub shaped an entire art movement with the exhibition "Neue Sachlichkeit. German Painting since Expressionism" (1925), Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub shaped an entire art movement. The National Socialists dismissed the director of the Mannheim Kunsthalle and refused him access to the Kunsthalle. Hartlaub exchanged letters with his son Felix about the situation at the museum and the political changes in Germany and fascist Italy. These explosive letters were published in Sinn und Form in 2017. Its editor-in-chief Matthias Weichelt talks about them with the author Durs Grünbein, who is a profound connoisseur of Felix Hartlaub's works.

The literary journal Sinn und Form has been published by the Akademie der Künste since 1950.

An event organised by the Akademie der Künste Berlin in cooperation with the Gunzenhauser Foundation
 

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Chemnitz Art Collections

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European Realities

The exhibition project European Realities at the Gunzenhauser Museum includes positions from various European countries, in particular from Northern, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The diverse realist movements that were visible almost everywhere in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s are shown on an up to now unique scale. The exhibition tells of hunger and misery, of the modernisation of industry, reports on the economic upswing and cultural prosperity, of technical progress, the big city and nightlife, emancipation and diversity. The exhibition is part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

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European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.