A BIT OF A SET-BACK - Lenbachhaus permanent collection : Chapter 3

So with a stomach which was replete for a little while, I climbed up the stairs again to wander through the permanent collection.


Wilhelm Von Kobell (1766-1855) On Gaisalm 1828


I looked at the list of artists and knew at once, that quite a few would be missed. Joseph Beuys for one - I would just stroll through the galleries starting with the 19th century but not stopping unless a picture stopped me…..

I started walking faster. These are not my periods - in art. 19th century or even go back a century. It starts for me at the beginning of the 20th. I jumped to after 1945….even then, looking for something new was not easy……


Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) The Cnnjurer 1959

William N. Copmey Winterset 1965

Hans Hofmann - Astral Nebula

Sol Lewitt 1928-2007 (USA) Wall Drawing 2003 - I wondered if it was S.L. who painted directly on the walls?

William Copley (1919-1996-USA) The Man must have the woman and we're all brutes more or less: 1967 but untitled - another way of putting a title on a painting?

Maria Lassnig 1919-2014 - The hourglass 2001


The doors were closing. Looking down at the main hall, there were few people left.

Olafur Eliasson - WIRBELWERK (Vortex) 2012
 The basic idea behind this work is its dynamic energy. A vortex which sucks up what it seizes down in the depths before bringing it back to the surface....and I was now back on the surface.....

I was really hungry - so onto real food until tomorrow. 
Looking at the small catalogue I had bought showed a few paintings which perhaps would have inspired me. After "The Blue Rider" and the DIX/Beckmann, perhaps I did not give justice to the collection. How could you after what I had seen today?







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