Guided tour in cooperation with the VHS Bonn Landscapes of the Soul

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Guided tour in cooperation with the VHS-Bonn

For the first time in Germany, the Arp Museum is presenting outstanding masterpieces from the Belgian collection of The Phoebus Foundation. Under the title Soul Landscapes of the Soul. James Ensor – Claude Monet – Paul Signac, around 30 of these previously unseen paintings and sculptures from Impressionism to the beginning of Classical Modernism will be  presented. The exhibition sheds light on Brussels as a vibrant centre of the avant-garde in the late 19th century. Belgian artists such as Théo van Rysselberghe, George Minne and James Ensor cultivated an intensive exchange with their French colleagues and found their very own expressions of the epochal and pioneering art movements that culminated in Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism. In dialogue with 30 works by French masters from the Rau Collection for UNICEF, from Claude Monet to Paul Signac and Maurice Denis, a lively exchange is created that brings the cross-fertilisation of the art scenes to life. The exhibition shows this group's search for an existentialism that is deeply rooted in the human soul and was fuelled by the dark, sometimes absurd intoxication of the fin de siècle.

 

Meeting point: Ticket office in the entrance area
Cost: 14 € (no discount possible)
Participants: 10 - 20 people
Registration and information: www.vhs-bonn.de Exhibition with guided tour 6319

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