Expressionismus in skulptur, En passant
Städel Museum, Germany
Through October 25, 2020, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, explores how attributes of Impressionist painting such as the ephemeral have found expression in 3D art.
Impressionism still fascinates people around the world, even a century and a half after its appearance in Paris around 1870. Under the title En Passant; Impressionism in Sculpture, the Städel Museum presents the first-ever major exhibition to explore the question of how the attributes of Impressionist painting - such as light, color, movement, and even ephemerality - found expression in sculpture.
The show will revolve primarily around five artists - Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), and Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) - whose works represent the various manifestations of Impressionist sculpture.
Degas, Rodin, Rosso, Troubetzkoy and Bugatti were all referred to as "Impressionist sculptors" during their lifetimes. There are many reasons for this: on the one hand, they devoted themselves increasingly to contemporary - and often banal - themes in their artistic work; on the other hand, they chose materials other than academic-classical marble, using wax, for example, not only for three-dimensional studies but also for finished sculptures.