Analysing the deeper connections which link avant-garde movements and artists in different countries in central Europe and showing clearly how the art which developed in the early twentieth century in those countries was linked to their counterparts in the major European cities such as Paris, Moscow, Munich and Berlin.

This is the aim the exhibition “!AVANT-GARDES! In central Europe 1910 – 1930”, at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, which looks at the work of the cubist group Skupina, created in Prague in 1911 from the ashes of the German Czech artists organisation Die Acht. It then looks at Hungarian activists who were grouped around the writer Lajos Kassák in Budapest: bringing together expressionist elements and an independent adaptation of aspects of Fauvism, Futurism and Expressionism.

The meeting point for different groups of artists in Germany was the Konstruktivistische Internationale in Düsseldorf, where artists such as El Lissitzky could be found, although probably it was the Bauhaus which played the biggest role for artists in central Europe, as witnessed in the work of László Moholy-Nagy, Andor Weininger, Alfréd Forbat, Farkas Molnár and Sándor Bortnyik.

until 6.10.02
!AVANT-GARDES! In central europe 1910 – 1930
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