Barlach / Kasper / Thorak / Wotruba (working title) - The Museums of the Province of Upper Austria in cooperation with Linz09

This exhibition focuses on the question of how the particular works of the respective sculptors functioned in the various political and social systems before and after 1945. In addition to biographies of the individual artists and a discussion of their oeuvres in terms of art history, an analysis of how their works were received by those partaking of them in various historical eras is an essential element of this project, which is being developed jointly with the Ernst Barlach Foundation. The works of these four artists—taken together—provide a representative picture of the interrelationships between politics and art.

Landesgalerie Linz, Fall 2008
In cooperation with the Ernst Barlach Foundation