Munich's Lenbachhaus shows Tate star Turner: looking forward to the art year 2023
Created: 11/22/2022, 7:45 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
Joseph Mallord William Turner's "Snow Storm" can be seen in Munich's Lenbachhaus.
© Turner, Joseph Mallord William
In 2023, the Lenbachhaus in Munich is showing exhibitions with works by the British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and the German expressionist Charlotte Salomon, among others.
Anticipation!
Since November 14, 2022, the Lenbachhaus has officially been a Munich "ecoprofit company" because of its energy saving concept.
And museum director Matthias Mühling and his team take that seriously.
Not all Upper Bavarian art lovers will have to fly to London next year - next year London will come to Munich.
More precisely: one of the most famous former inhabitants of the country.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851).
"Turner" is the title of the show, which will be on show from October 28, 2023.
Because this artist is a brand worldwide.
Mühling goes into raptures when he tells the assembled press about the treasures that will be delivered in 2023.
All from the Tate, in return the London house will be allowed to borrow masterpieces by the Blue Riders from Munich for a show there in 2024. "We are showing the best of the best: several of Turner's main pictures, but also sketches that are not otherwise shown publicly". , emphasizes Mühling and increases the anticipation of Turner, who, with his landscape paintings, which broke all viewing habits of the time, worked his way up from a worker's son to a millionaire, and above all: to the most important painter of his time.
Charlotte Salomon's gouache from Life?
or theatre?” © Lenbachhaus Munich
Turner had a long, hardworking life making time for it.
What would have become of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) if the Nazis hadn't murdered her in Auschwitz at the age of 26?
One asks oneself concerned while Mühling presents some of the works of this German expressionist.
From March 31, 2023, the life story that Salomon put on paper in around 1,300 gouaches in French exile with tremendous expressiveness will be shown.
It is a fictionalized autobiography, composed as a singspiel by the modern young woman in combination with texts and pieces of music;
the meaningful title: "Life?
Or theatre?” The references to Lenbachhaus artist Gabriele Münter are unmistakable.
But above all because of her political stance, Salomon fits into the house on Königsplatz, which always faces up to its social responsibility.
For these two exhibitions alone, the unbeatably cheap Lenbachhaus annual ticket for 20 euros is worth it (gift tip! Christmas is coming!).
And then there's a lot more to come.
The German-Iranian sculptor Natascha Sadr Haghighian and the Munich artist Günter Fruhtrunk (1923-1982) are also on the program.
As many visitors as before the pandemic are coming back to Munich's Lenbachhaus
In 2022, 200,000 visitors found their way to the Lenbachhaus - pre-pandemic level.
The "Free & Easy" series, which invites you into the house free of charge every first Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., is intended to do its part to ensure that even more people drop by - and let art warm them in winter.
In any case, cultural advisor Anton Biebl promises: "We are well prepared to get through this exceptional winter without closing cultural institutions."