Hans-Peter Wipplinger Libros

The first overview in a decade on Kubin’s gothic pageant of dreamworld menace The art of the great Austrian draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) appears more current today than ever before; wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters and the manipulation of the masses pervade his highly narrative works. Kubin’s nightmarish oeuvre extends Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered a precursor to French Surrealism, with its syntheses of actual and imaginary reality, its bleak realms that Kubin often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration.Published for an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Alfred Confessions of a Tortured Soul offers an exploration of Kubin’s oneiric worlds in terms of their relation to the unconscious. Through this lens, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs addresses pieces by Kubin selected by curator Hans-Peter Wipplinger. In addition, Kubin’s works are placed into a dialogue with works by artists of the 19th century and of the classical modernism from which Kubin derived inspiration.

Interwar Germany's prevailing artistic movement encapsulates the hardship and hedonism of the Weimar Republic The ramifications of World War I called for new visual depictions of German social realities: the hardship on the one hand and the zest for life of the "Golden Twenties" on the other. This dichotomy resulted in the New Objectivity movement. Unsentimental, sober, specific and purist, it depicted the world in an objective, realistic manner. Many of Weimar Germany's most notable artists adopted this style, and the resulting works capture the era in perpetuity: an unsettling panorama when viewed from the present day. This first exhibition of German New Objectivity in Austria includes over 150 treasures of New Objectivity from renowned museums and private collections. Artists include: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Grethe Jürgens, Lotte Laserstein, Felix Nussbaum, Gerta Overbeck, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter.

Max Oppenheimer war Expressionist der ersten Stunde. Mit der großen Schau wird das gleichermaßen unbekannte wie überraschende Oeuvre des Künstlers neu beleuchtet und dessen Motivschatz - von Porträts und religiösen Themen über Stillleben sowie Gruppenkompositionen bis hin zu Musiker- und Tierdarstellungen - erschlossen. Text: Alfred Fehringer, Kerstin Jesse, Lisa Smit, Aline Marion Steinwender.

Große Gefühle Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart Der Katalog setzt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Darstellungen von Emotionen und ihrer jeweiligen Veränderung in den historischen Kontexten von Kunstwerken auseinander. Rund 40 Arbeiten der Gegenwartskunst aus der Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin – darunter Werke von Maurizio Cattelan, Douglas Gordon, Dinos und Jake Chapman, Damien Hirst, Sharon Lockhart, or Berlinde De Bruyckere – werden, um dieser Fragestellung nachzugehen, in einen Dialog mit Werken aus den unterschiedlichen Sammlungen des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien gesetzt und so ein Kaleidoskop an Gefühlen, das von Liebe, Freude und Glück bis zu Angst, Zorn, Trauer und Verzweiflung reicht, eröffnet.