What threatens to disappear becomes an image. Man - Nature - Art
04.02.2025 - 05.10.2025 ,
Lenbachhaus
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It is a commonplace, frightening and fascinating at the same time: everything that has been captured in pictures no longer exists or no longer exists in the form depicted. In art, the theme of transience is often symbolically realised, as a memento mori or melancholic meditation on the disappearance of things. Images of dreams, encounters with people and explorations of nature also show only fleeting moments. Sometimes the fleeting becomes the explicit subject of a depiction that nevertheless seeks to capture it: Clouds are constantly changing, snow soon melts, trees only bloom for a short time.
The exhibition is built around such moments of recognition. It shows well-known as well as rarely or never before shown works from the 19th and 20th centuries from the collections of the Lenbachhaus, the Historical Society of Upper Bavaria, the Christoph Heilmann Foundation, the Munich Secession, the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, the KiCo Foundation and the Förderverein Lenbachhaus e. V. Art works with the ephemeral and with the knowledge of transience. In this it coincides with the idea of the museum, which aims to collect, preserve and also communicate works of art.
Last edited on 28.02.2025
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