From Marées to Picasso. Masterpieces from the Von der Heydt-Museum

Paintings by thirty-nine artists produced between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries belonging to the permanent collection of the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal. The show presents a varied selection of works by avant-garde European artists such as Cézanne, Manet and other great masters painted from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century.

The pictures by thirty-nine artists in this show, painted in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, are kept in the Von der Heydt-Museum in the German city of Wuppertal. The exhibition is a representative display of works from the European avant-garde by artists such as Cézanne, Manet and the masters of Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism, who depicted one of richest periods in art history.

Among the numerous artists whose works are featured in the show are Picasso (with five paintings), Dalí, Kandinsky, Gauguin, Bonnard, Léger and Kokoschka; Degas, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec as representatives of French Impressionism; De Chirico; members of the German Expressionist groups Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter and Die Blauen Vier (Corinth, Feininger, Heckel, Kirchner, Liebermann, Jawlensky, Marc and Nolde); and Neue Sachlichkeit painters Beckmann and Otto Dix.