The human being in the time from 1918 to the "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938 is the subject of this special exhibition at Schloss Bruck.
One hundred masterpieces of Austrian interwar painting provide a direct insight into life in this tension-filled time.
The starting point of the exhibition "Threat and Idyll" are admonitory pictures by Albin Egger-Lienz against inhumanity. The subsequent "human images" are wide-ranging: They reflect the emotional cooling in the post-war years as well as the new modern urban
Feeling of life and the yearning for sensuality and idyll. For some artists, this leads
the departure from everyday life into a mysterious-surreal world. Artistic freedoms ended with the Nazi regime: For many, only inner emigration or fleeing to other places of work remained.
Works by Werner Berg, Herbert Boeckl, Albin Egger-Lienz, Anton Faistauer, Hilde Goldschmidt, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Carry Hauser, Elisabeth Karlinsky, Erika Giovanna Klien, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Kolig, Anton Mahringer, Max Oppenheimer, Sergius Pauser, Herbert Ploberger, Lois Pregarbauer, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Franz Sedlacek, Wilhelm Thöni, My Ullmann, Rudolf Wacker, Otto Erich Wagner, Alfons Walde, Franz Wiegele, Ferdinand Kitt, Rudolf Wacker, Werner Scholz, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Lisel Salzer, Ernst Nepo, Friedl Dicker,Jean Egger, Silvia Koller, Maxim Kopf, Georg Jung.
The catalog for the exhibition
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