Albertinum: Oskar Zwintscher and the art around 1900. Escapism and modernity

Escapism and Modernity. Oskar Zwintscher and the art around 1900

Almost no other important German artist from the time around 1900 has waited longer for a fundamental reassessment than Oskar Zwintscher (1870–1916). Significant stages in the course of his artistic career were the periods he spent in Dresden, Meissen, Munich, Vienna, and Worpswede. With his enigmatic pictures and the “spellbindingly sombre, morbid glow of his cold metallic colours” (Egbert Delpy), Zwintscher won much acclaim during his lifetime, but also experienced fierce rejection.

Exhibition Site Albertinum

DATES 14/05/2022—15/01/2023

This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of his works, which are situated between Jugendstil and Symbolism. It demonstrates that this artist ranks alongside other great painters of the period around 1900, such as Arnold Böcklin, Ferdinand Hodler, and Gustav Klimt. By various media such as painting, sculpture, drawing and photography, largely from the holdings of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the exciting epochal threshold to the 20th century can be experienced in an impressive way.

Frau, die eine Zigarette in der Hand hält — **Oskar Zwintscher, Bildnis einer Dame mit Zigarette, 1904** Öl auf Leinwand, 82 x 68 cm

**Oskar Zwintscher, Adele im Hamsterpelz, 1914** Öl auf Leinwand, 89 x 63 cm, The Jack Daulton Collection, Leihgabe im Albertinum

**Oskar Zwintscher, Bildnis der Gattin des Künstlers, 1902** Öl auf Leinwand, 200 x 100 cm, Albertinum

**Oskar Zwintscher, Gram, 1898** Öl auf Leinwand, 150,5 x 150,2 cm, Städtische Galerie Dresden

**Oskar Zwintscher, Bildnis der Frau des Künstlers, 1901** Malpappe, 43,1 cm x 43,2 cm, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, erworben mit Unterstützung der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung

**Oskar Zwintscher, Der Sommertag, 1896** Öl auf Leinwand, 226 x 120,7 cm Städtische Galerie Dresden

**Oskar Zwintscher, O Wandern, o Wandern!, 1903** Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 120 cm, Albertinum

With works by: Arnold Böcklin, Ludwig Dill, Otto Dix, Hugo Erfurth, Anselm Feuerbach, Ferdinand Hodler, Ludwig von Hofmann, Gustav Klimt, Max Klinger, Wilchelm Lachnit, Eugène Laermans, Franz von Lenbach, Georg Lühring, Édouard Manet, Karl Mediz, Emille Mediz-Pellkan, Georg Minne, Otto Modersohn, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Richard Müller, Leon Pohle, Auguste Rodin, Sascha Schneider, Carl Seffner, Charles van der Stappen, Franz von Stuck, Hans Unger, Carl Vinnen, Heinrich Vogeler.