Albin Egger Lienz - Exhibition

A.E.L. Der Bergmäher 1907

I spent most of this Saturday in the Leopold Museum, since they have a great Albin Egger Lienz Exhibition right now and it is said that it is the most extensive show ever of this important pioneer of 20th-century Austrian painting. More than 180 works by Egger-Lienz from museums, galleries and private collections in Austria and abroad are assembled, documenting the artist’s stylistic development. In the exhibition, additional variants, painterly detail studies and sketches are providing insight into the painter’s formal strivings to achieve monumental and expressive compositions. The show concentrates on work complexes dealing with memories of the artist’s birthplace and of Munich, religious motifs and the genre subjects, tales of the struggle to liberate Tyrol in 1809, portraits and landscapes, the terrors of war, and finally sombre destiny motifs and meditations on life, death and hope.


A.E.L. Totentanz 1915

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