19 September 2008 – 11 January 2009

traces du sacré - traces of the spiritual in 20th century art

the 20th century emerged during a time of a great crisis of faith. nietzsche's philosophy with its declaration that 'god is dead', max weber's assertion of the 'world's disenchantment' were expression of this spiritual crux, which led to a changed relationship between people and religion. this, however, did not mean the end of metaphysics in art; rather it seems as if modern art, from kandinsky to francis bacon and from barnett newman to bill viola, has a close relationship particularly to metaphysical questions. artists showed and still show their will to find new forms for their aspirations in understanding endlessness. this extensive exhibition 'traces du sacré' explores the most extraordinary artistic modes of representation of this path in the 20th century and shows how it still to this day has led to the invention of new forms of expression. amongst many others, the works shown are by constantin brancusi, maurizio cattelan, paul chan, jake & dinos chapman, giorgio de chirico, marcel duchamp, lucio fontana, caspar david friedrich, paul gauguin, damien hirst, ferdinand hodler, alexej von jawlensky, martin kippenberger, kasimir malewitsch, piet mondriaan, edvard munch, bruce nauman, gerhard richter. also included are several non-western works in order to point out the universality of this spiritual question.
in collaboration with the centre georges pompidou – musée national d’art moderne

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Description of the Museum

Built in 1932 as substitute for the legendary Münchner Glaspalast, after Hitler's seizure of power the exhibitions "Entarteten Kunst" (Degenerated Art) became infamous. Since 1949 there are exhibited many great retrospectives

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