17 April 2009 – 30 August 2009

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani is one of the most important artists of modern art and of the 20th century, who's works became icons in the collective memory of images a long time ago. With a comprehensive retrospective the Art- and Exhibition Hall wants to celebrate this outstanding artist, who died when he was only 35.
Born in Italy in 1884 Modigliani was painter, draughtsman and sculptor. His most important subject are portraits and nudes. Apart from that he eventually painted few pure landscape paintings. Not to be overlooked in Modigliani's paintings is their relationship to the language of the styles of renaissance and mannerism. He combines expressionist, cubist and symbolistic elements but as well takes up figures of the African sculpture, popular at his time, which fascinated him because of their idolatry. He can not be classified as belonging clearly to any of the contemporary styles like cubism or fauvism. All his works document the restless manner of life of an artist full of relish, who in great sadness is fully aware of his vulnerability and his mortality from his childhood on and who needs the euphoria of the intoxication, in order to live and work. In his portraits Modigliani reached a highly individual, at times melancholy expression which one can not resist.

Address

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
53113 Bonn
phone +49 228 917 12 00
http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Wednesday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Thursday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

In 1992 the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany was founded as an institution for changing exhibitions and has since then offered a varied programme of international significance in the areas of art, cultural history, science and technology.

opened in 1992; Architekt: Gustav Peichl

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