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Herbert Boeckl. Retrospective This exhibition of Herbert Boeckl's work surveys fifty years of modern art production. Despite the historical vicissitudes of two world wars, the artist – a native Carinthian resident in Vienna – maintained throughout decades a continuous development of his project of a modern movement drawing on the Central European and Mediterranean tradition. Several periods of work span a rich spectrum, from the Vienna Secession artists' use of line, through the 1920s reception of the work of Paul Cézanne and the expressive realism of the 1930s, right up to his post-war planes of colour inspired by cubism. With the early Carinthian landscapes, the drawings and paintings of the Anatomy series (1931), and the major cycles from the post-1945 period, the exhibition shows many highlights from this extremely complex œuvre, linking the ideals of the classical modern movement in the era of Egon Schiele and early Oskar Kokoschka right through the international crisis of the avant-garde in the 1930s and '40s with the beginning of "globalised" production in the 1960s. As professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1935-64) and an influential personality in the art world of the Federal State (1934-38) and the early Second Republic (after 1945), Boeckl – one of the few officially recognised and valued modern Austrian painters – always provided a link between the Austrian art world and international developments. With his mural in the Church of Maria Saal (1929), the great altar triptych (1934-44) and the frescos in the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau (1952-60), Boeckl also made important contributions to modern sacred art |
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