Five Upper Bavarian museums exhibit coordinated.
The theme: "Avant-garde in color".
The special thing about it: The museums are ideal for a multi-day bike tour.
The landscape between Munich and the Alps is unique.
So did many young artists in the early 20th century.
Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter or Wassily Kandinsky often came to the “Blue Land”, as Franz Marc called it, and even lived here at times to capture nature in colors and shapes.
Many of her works will be exhibited in five Upper Bavarian museums in the context of the exhibition series “Avant-garde in Color - Blauer Reiter, Brücke and Expressionism” of the MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus until autumn.
This literally invites you to take a week's vacation, get on your bike and pedal.
Because you can get off your bike again and again and marvel at the view, which also inspired world-famous names.
The bike tour is around 185 kilometers long and leads from Munich to Bernried, Murnau, Kochel am See, Penzberg and back to Munich.
Without a stop, that would be a little over 13 hours of cycling.
But it is better to take a lot of breaks and enjoy nature.
Lenbachhaus Munich
The starting point is the museum area in the state capital.
Of course, there is not only the Lenbachhaus here for culture fans.
But there is the world's largest Blauer Reiter collection.
In “Group Dynamics. Der Blaue Reiter ”, the Lenbachhaus pursues the idea of equating all art with works by Gabriele Münter, August Macke, Alfred Kubin, Maria Marc and Elisabeth Epstein. Here, not only the aesthetic and historical, but also the spiritual, social and political connections between the works become clear, for example connections between the Blue Rider and Japanese woodcuts, Bavarian folk art, as well as art from Bali, Gabon or Sri Lanka. The exhibition in the Lenbachhaus ends in March 2023.
After the Lenbachhaus visit, it's time to cycle: Along the Isar you drive to Grünwald, then on to Gauting.
The paths along the Würm finally lead you to Starnberg, probably the most popular excursion destination for Munich residents.
Via Possenhofen, Feldafing and Tutzing you end up in Bernried in the Buchheim Museum of Fantasy.
Or: You get on the ship in Starnberg and drive to Bernried - certainly a nice change.
Buchheim Museum of Fantasy, Bernried
The Museum of Imagination is about "The colors of the avant-garde".
Because that is extremely important in Expressionism.
Jawlensky strikes a mystical blue, Heckel is enthusiastic about a burning red, Modersohn-Becker indulges in her color mood.
The color should not only visualize forms, it is an important expressive function for the artists of the avant-garde themselves.
The works can be viewed from July 10th to November 7th.
From the shores of the imagination we continue through the area of the picturesque Osterseen: First Antdorf, then on the Loisach cycle path to Murnau, where the artist couple Münter / Kandinsky lived for a time and where the castle museum is located.
Murnau Castle Museum
In Murnau, the main focus is on the importance of children's drawings.
Because the child's universe, the parallelism of fantasy and reality, the spontaneity and, last but not least, the lightheartedness in dealing with proportions, the laws of gravity and the high level of abstraction gave painting new impulses.
This can be traced back to works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso or the groups CoBrA and SPUR.
The castle exhibition starts on July 29th and ends on November 7th.
The next stop is the Kochelsee, a popular motif at the Blue Rider and location of the Franz Marc Museum.
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See
In the Franz Marc Museum you can get to know the painters from Brücke and Blauer Reiter personally.
The exhibition “I am my style” is about self-portraits and portraits that the artists painted of each other.
Klee as a tightrope walker, Kandinsky as a rhetorician, Beckmann as a gentleman and Macke as a clown.
The collection is supplemented with letters and diaries, programs and pamphlets.
The exhibition will take place from Sunday until October 3rd.
From Kochel am See you continue to the monastery village of Benediktbeuern with its baroque monastery complex before you reach Penzberg.
Museum Penzberg
“Beauty all around.
Campendonk, the Expressionists and the arts and crafts ”- that's the name of the exhibition in the last museum of the bike tour.
Based on Heinrich Campendonk's own time at the arts and crafts school, the focus is on the arts and crafts in Rhenish Expressionism.
Artists such as Fifi Kreutzer, August and Helmuth Macke, Fritz Thuar and Carlo Mense processed the knowledge of form and color gained in painting in the decor and jewelry of arts and crafts.
This is supplemented with woodcuts and pictures from behind the glass by Campendonk.
The exhibition does not begin until August 7th and will end on November 1st.
Now all that's missing is the drive home.
You can comfortably return to Munich via the Loisach cycle path and from Wolfratshausen via the Isar cycle path.
It should also be mentioned that all museum locations have a rail connection.
So if the weather or the muscles don't play along every day, there is also an alternative.
information
You can find information about the exhibitions as well as other excursion and hotel tips at www.museenlandschaft-expressionismus.de.
