A Life in Pictures: A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner
The exhibition A Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner traces the various stages of the gallery owner鈥檚 life as reflected in art. Works from different periods of origin are juxtaposed to create exciting dialogues, enabling conclusions to be drawn about existential themes of humankind.
Since 1956, all aspects of Rudolf Zwirner鈥檚 life have been closely linked with art, the development of which he decisively shaped in the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day: professionally as a gallery owner, secretary general of documenta II, cofounder of the world鈥檚 first art fair, and curator, but also privately in intensive exchange with artists. Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner, shown on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, makes a plea that art as an essential part of the human condition. The around eighty works in the exhibition, which come from museums, private collections, as well as the Deutsche Bank Collection, which owes important acquisitions to the Zwirner gallery, paint an artistic portrait of this impressive, multi-faceted man. At the same time, however, they stand for the constants, ruptures, and developments in art and the art trade since the postwar period, which Zwirner decisively influenced and shaped. Rudolf Zwirner was already associated with most of the artists represented in the show in the early stages of their careers and participated in their later successes.
The exhibition A Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner traces the various stages of the gallery owner鈥檚 life as reflected in art. Works from different periods of origin are juxtaposed to create exciting dialogues, enabling conclusions to be drawn about existential themes of humankind.
Since 1956, all aspects of Rudolf Zwirner鈥檚 life have been closely linked with art, the development of which he decisively shaped in the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day: professionally as a gallery owner, secretary general of documenta II, cofounder of the world鈥檚 first art fair, and curator, but also privately in intensive exchange with artists. Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner, shown on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, makes a plea that art as an essential part of the human condition. The around eighty works in the exhibition, which come from museums, private collections, as well as the Deutsche Bank Collection, which owes important acquisitions to the Zwirner gallery, paint an artistic portrait of this impressive, multi-faceted man. At the same time, however, they stand for the constants, ruptures, and developments in art and the art trade since the postwar period, which Zwirner decisively influenced and shaped. Rudolf Zwirner was already associated with most of the artists represented in the show in the early stages of their careers and participated in their later successes.
Artists on show
- Agnes Martin
- Albrecht Dürer
- André Masson
- Andy Warhol
- Angelika Platen
- Asger Jorn
- Astrid Klein
- Blinky Palermo
- Bruce Nauman
- Bruno Goller
- Cy Twombly
- Dan Flavin
- Daniel Spoerri
- David Hockney
- Francis Picabia
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Franz West
- Fred Sandback
- Gary Kuehn
- Gaspare Diziani
- Georg Baselitz
- George Grosz
- Gerhard Richter
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
- Giuseppe Penone
- Hans Bellmer
- Henri Michaux
- Henri Rousseau
- Jakob Mattner
- Jasper Johns
- Jean Fautrier
- Jean Tinguely
- Joseph Beuys
- Konrad Klapheck
- Louise Bourgeois
- Maria Lassnig
- Mark Lammert
- Martha Jungwirth
- Martin Kippenberger
- Matija Skurjeni
- Max Ernst
- Merlin James
- Michael Müller
- Michael Oppitz
- Natalie Czech
- Olaf Metzel
- On Kawara
- Pablo Picasso
- Panamarenko
- Piet Mondrian
- Raymond Pettibon
- René Magritte
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Serge-Ivanovich Charchoune
- Sigmar Polke
- Sol LeWitt
- Yves Klein
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