“On Van Gogheling”

In an article entitled “Vom Van Gogheln” (On Van Gogheling), published in 1910, the writer and journalist Ferdinand Avanarius described the enthusiastic response of German artists to Vincent van Gogh’s work: “Van Gogh is dead, but the van Gogh people are alive. And how alive they are! [...] There is Van Gogheling everywhere.”
For the generation that followed Van Gogh, the artist’s unique, anti-academic approach to depicting nature offered both liberation and encouragement. But the responses of different artists varied considerably. Some found their own, individual path; others remained in the shadow of their model. The lecture will explore Van Gogh’s reception in Germany at the start of the twentieth century and his influence on German expressionists.

Alexander Eiling is Head of the Department of Modern Art at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main and co-curator of the exhibition Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story, which will be on show until February 16, 2020.

Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 7 p.m.
Auditorium
€ 10 / concessions € 8

Ticket price includes admission to the exhibition one hour before the event.