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Group Show

German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

919 Broadway
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

October 19th, 2012 - February 10th

Opening:
October 19th, 2012 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Winter Landscape in Moonlight,Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Winter Landscape in Moonlight,
1919, Oil on canvas, 47 1/2 x 47 1/2
© Gift of Curt Valentin in memory of the artist on the occasion of Dr. William R. Valentiner’s 60th birthday

> ARTISTS

Max Beckmann	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Otto Dix	Franz Marc
Wassily Kandinsky	Paula Modersohn-Becker

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PHONE:

615.244.3341

OPEN HOURS:

Monday–Saturday 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Thursday & Friday extended hours until 9:00 p.m.; Sunday 1:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

TAGS:

painting, abstract, sculpture

COST:

$10

> DESCRIPTION

This exhibition features works from the Detroit Institute of the Arts’ renowned collection of early twentieth-century German Expressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by artists who belonged to the groups known as The Blue Rider (active in Munich) and The Bridge (active in Dresden and Berlin). The Detroit collection contains major works by Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Franz Marc and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

This exhibition was organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts gratefully acknowledges our Picasso Circle Members as Exhibition Patrons.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is supported in part by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.