The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid present a major survey of the development of international art between 1913 and 1918. Entitled 1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War, the show proposes an analysis of avant-garde art – Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism and early abstraction – through more than 200 works of art from around 80 lenders in sixteen countries, with World War I as its backdrop.
The exhibition brings together works by dozens of artists involved in the principal avant-garde trends. They include Klee, Kandinsky, Marc, Schiele, Brancusi, Chagall, Nolde, Balla, Goncharova, Boccioni, Léger, Zadkine, Severini, Popova, Grosz, Macke and many others up to complete a list of 68 names.
Highlights include the group of works by Umberto Boccioni comprising 3 major oils, as well as the group of works by Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Sironi and Lehmbruck and the series by Ossip Zadkine, never previously exhibited in its entirety and including the previously unpublished watercolour entitled Barracks.
Lesser known and rarely exhibited works include drawings by Marcoussis, various works by Sironi, Lothe, Lehmbruck and Rouault as well as a curious sculpture made from the remains of a missile attributed to André Derain and recently rediscovered.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
1 Darkness over the world
2 The second sight
3 The last days of humanity
4 The avant-garde on horseback
5 War song
6 The vortex of destruction
7 War of forms. An easthetics of disappearance
8 Depth charge
Fundación Caja Madrid
9 Apocalypse of our time
10 Artist and soldier
11 Cubism in the trenches
12 The stigma of damnation
13 "C'est la guerre!"
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