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divided | undivided - Art in Germany 1945 to 2010
An exhibition by the Galerie Neue Meister (New Masters Picture Gallery)
February 7,2012 to August 25, 2013
Galerie Neue Meister (New Masters Picture Gallery), Albertinum
In August 2011, the construction of the Berlin Wall – symbol of the separation of the two former existing German states – had its 50th anniversary. As a follow-up to this event, the Galerie Neue Meister shows German-German art from the post-war period until the present on a large scale and primarily from its own holdings. The Albertinum is the ideal place for a show like this, since there the large survey exhibitions on East German art, from which many artworks were acquired for the museum, took place until 1988.
The round tour starts with pictures created under the impression of the devastating destruction of the city centre of Dresden in February 1945, which manifest the situation after the “Death of Dresden” (Wilhelm Lachnit) to a new beginning. In separated, but open cabinets of the exhibition’s architecture, an exciting and suggestive artistic expression comes to light. While in West Germany next to realistic tendencies, abstraction became the prevailing means of expression, realistic ways of representation dominated in the Eastern part of the divided country.
In the years around and after 1989, the pictorial traditions of the former separated states overlapped. They lost their distinct status particularly through the direct encounter with international art trends.
The collection of the Galerie Neue Meister has arrived in the present time with works by artists of the younger generation from all parts of Germany. The gallery’s collection of paintings intersects with works from the Skulpturensammlung, photographs and video art. Herewith, the museum not only establishes itself through tradition, but also through liveliness as an important cultural factor of German history and future.