"Klee, Tanguy, Miro Three Approaches to Landscape."
2000-03-18 until 2000-05-14
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein
Vienna, , AT Austria

The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien will be presenting Klee, Tanguy, Miro. Three approaches to landscape, an exhibition of around one hundred paintings and drawings by Paul Klee, Yves Tanguy and Joan Miro, three of the major artists of the twentieth century, from the Gallery K. AG Collection in Switzerland, founded by Kazumasa Katsuta. To date, these works have hardly ever been on display. Mr. K. Katsuta himself selected the works for this show.

The art-historical tradition of landscape painting was radically transformed by classical modernity. In the wake of the Impressionists, landscape was turned into an artful construction that uses Nature merely as a stimulus for the formal arrangement of the picture. The various approaches taken by the artists indicate to what an extent visions of a stage-like character of landscape have faded. The exhibition, therefore, focuses on those landscapes considered metaphorically as visions of the artists' inner world.

Paul Klee (Munich-Buchsee, Bern, 1879 - Locarno, 1940), stands as a colossus in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to take an interest in Freud's and Jung's theories on the subconscious and made use of them in his artistic practice. Klee intended to visualize inner states, incorporated in pictorial designing principles. The artist saw art as a means to create a world parallel to Nature.

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