El Greco and Modernism to open in Düsseldorf
On 28 April 2012, a major exhibition of El Greco will open at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany.
El Greco and Modernism is the first major exhibition in Germany focusing on El Greco’s paintings and pictorial world. It unites over 100 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings – by around 38 artists from the early Modernist period and over 40 important works by El Greco, above all portraits, landscapes and works on religious themes.
Taking place one hundred years after a ground-breaking El Greco exhibition that toured Europe, El Greco and Modernism illustrates how the Old Master inspired and fascinated many artists of the early Modernist period.
Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete, 1541, El Greco moved to Italy, and later Madrid and finally Toledo in Spain, where he remained until his death in 1614. His paintings had a profound impact on the work of many modern artists including Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso and Delaunay.
Shown exclusively at the Kunstpalast, this major show brings together works from the world’s leading museums such as MoMA, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Museo del Greco, Toledo, The National Gallery, London, The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Alte Pinakothek, Munich and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It runs until 12 August 2012.
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Image credit: El Greco, The Immaculate Conception, 1607-1613, oil on canvas, 108 x 82 cm, © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid