Early Twentieth Century European Prints and Drawings from Private Collections in Melbourne
Dates:
1 – 25 July 1980
Curators:
Jenepher Duncan and Gerard Vaughan
Artists:
George Annenkov, Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Robert Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Fernand Leger, Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, Henri Matisse, Rolf Nesch, Jules Pascin, Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Ivan Puni, Georges Rouault, Oskar Schlemmer, Lothar Schreyer, Fritz Stuckenberg
Location:
Exhibition Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Initiated by Gerard Vaughan, affiliated with the Department of Visual Arts, this exhibition presented a broad overview of modernist trends in European art of the early twentieth century. It brought together works from local private collections, including the collection of Mrs Olive Hirschfeld, the Lippmann collection and the Deutscher Galleries, with many works being exhibited publicly for the first time. A selection of German art from Expressionism to the Bauhaus was the exhibition’s strength, while it also made reference to the developments in France with examples from Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, through to Neoclassicism of Picasso’s Vollard Suite of etchings.
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Image: Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds II (Kleine Welten II) 1922, colour lithograph, 25.4 x 21.1 cm. Printer: von Reineck & Klein, Weimar, edition of 230. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris