{"id":50938,"date":"2022-08-31T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=50938"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T08:20:27","slug":"hagenbund-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/hagenbund-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagenbund exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbundsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from a modernist painting\" class=\"wp-image-50918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbundsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbundsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>An important, but underexplored, part of art history enjoys a rare piece of the limelight at the Leopold Museum. The Hagenbund exhibition features the same-named artists&#8217; association known for their modernism and openness of artistic spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Group of progressive artists formally active 1900-1938<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Features over 180 works<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traces the artistic highlights of the Hagenbund story as a mirror of times past<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Texts in English &amp; German<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Sept 16, 2022 &#8211; Feb 6, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/leopold-museum\/\">Leopold Museum visitor info<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#modernart\">modern art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From moderate to radical modernism<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund1.jpg\" alt=\"Jung painting\" class=\"wp-image-50916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund1.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund1-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Georg Jung, Festspielauffahrt, 1929 \u00a9 Privatsammlung Salzburg; photo: Privatsammlung Salzburg \u00a9 Bildrecht, Wien 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history Gods are fickle beasts, wielding the paintbrush of memory selectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people talk of artist groups around 1900 in Vienna, thoughts usually turn to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/gustav-klimt\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2264\">Gustav Klimt<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/secession\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2119\">Secession<\/a>, who broke with the established K\u00fcnstlerhaus association in 1897. They went on to write new chapters of art in big (possibly black and gold) letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just a couple of years after the Secessionists stormed out, another group formed within (and soon left) the K\u00fcnstlerhaus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leopold Museum shines a deserved light on the progressive art and artists of the Hagenbund, who have sometimes struggled to emerge from the long shadow cast by Klimt and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irked by the conservatism of their colleagues, the Hagenbund artists&#8217; association pursued a course that took them, as the title of this exhibition says, <em>From Moderate to Radical Modernism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, one notable 1912 exhibition proved so progressive that the group subsequently found themselves evicted and temporarily banned from their home venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association soon began to serve as a breeding ground and showcase for young contemporary artists. Their exhibitions drew in such names as Schiele, G\u00fctersloh and Kokoschka. And members exhibited internationally, rejecting a parochial approach to art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An absence of a formalised artistic manifesto, for example, allowed Hagenbund members to develop different styles and avoid self-imposed organisational limits to innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, the arrival of the Nazis in Austria brought an end to the Hagenbund story after some 40 years of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fascist authorities dissolved the association in 1938 as art came under centralised control (a topic of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/art-nazis-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37321\">recent exhibition<\/a> at the Wien Museum MUSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many former members were forced to flee the country on account of, for example, their progressive approaches, left-wing politics and\/or Jewish ancestry. Some were denied even that, and murdered in concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund2.jpg\" alt=\"Kloss painting\" class=\"wp-image-50917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hagenbund2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Robert Kloss, Terzetta, 1922 (Detail) \u00a9 Sammlung Oesterreichische Nationalbank; photo: Graphisches Atelier Neumann)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leopold Museum displays form a chronology, presenting the artistic evolution of Hagenbund members, but also including works by other artists featured in Hagenbund exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we begin with early landscape paintings with hints of impressionism, but soon veer into more adventurous territory (as illustrated by Egon Schiele&#8217;s 1912 <em>Hermits<\/em>, the sensation of the Hagenbund&#8217;s 35th exhibition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chronology brings home the interaction between art and its social context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colourful quasi-idyllic works by Oskar Laske and Georg Merkel, for example, seem to protest the growing inhumanity brought about by urbanisation, industrialisation and world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-WWI sees a drift into, for example, the avant garde. Georg Jung&#8217;s 1920\/21 <em>The Fallacy<\/em> presents a swirling mass of human shapes and bands of colour that seem far ahead of their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the influence of war and military experiences can be seen in the religious and darker motifs of works by Otto Rudolf Schatz and Georg Ehrlich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another room offers a change of tone, reflecting the growth and celebration of culture in the 1920s with Carry Hauser&#8217;s 1927 <em>Jazz Band<\/em> symbolic of, for example, internationalisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further galleries then bring us crashing back down to earth in radical modernisation combined with social commentary, as witnessed in, for example, the hollowed haunted looks of Ehrlich&#8217;s 1922 <em>Girl<\/em> painting or his 1932 <em>Two Sisters<\/em> sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Not to mention the dissolution and demise of the Hagenbund under the boot of Nazi ideology.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chronological approach reminds us how creativity ebbs, flows and evolves: influenced, enhanced and inhibited by the world around. And when politics forces creativity down a blind alley, then this does not bode well for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy a deep dive into this artist association between September 16th, 2022 and February 6th, 2023. A ticket for the Leopold Museum includes the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those dates cover the prime exhibition season in Vienna, featuring such gift-wrapped delights as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/basquiat-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"49565\">Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/helmut-newton-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"49739\">Helmut Newton<\/a>, and renaissance and baroque greats indulging in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/idols-and-rivals-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"50546\">battle by canvas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on the modernist side, though, be sure to investigate the Leopold Museum&#8217;s permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/schiele-leopold\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4068\">Vienna 1900 exhibition<\/a>. And both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secession.at\/en\/exhibitions\/\">Secession<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k-haus.at\/ausstellungen\/aktuell\/\">K\u00fcnstlerhaus<\/a> continue as going concerns in today&#8217;s Vienna with their own contemporary art exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if radical modernism leaves you hungry and thirsty, the surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4030\">MuseumsQuartier<\/a> has various caf\u00e9s and restaurants, not to mention a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/winter-at-the-mq\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"905\">winter outdoor event<\/a> if you happen to be there during the Advent season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>See the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/leopold-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4014\">Leopold Museum article<\/a> for public transport tips. The Hagenbund exhibition takes place on Level -1 (turn left and go around clockwise for the best experience).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1i9IZX6LeUKth_5sm2EOO-SqQl8s\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important, but underexplored, part of art history enjoys a rare piece of the limelight at the Leopold Museum. The Hagenbund exhibition features the same-named artists&#8217; association known for their modernism and openness of artistic spirit. 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