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The "degenerate art" exhibit at The Kimbell is as enthralling as it is enraging.

MODERN ART AND POLITICS IN GERMANY
1910-1945
Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin closes next week. See it while you still can.
A painting of a pale woman in a black dress eith black gloves & vontage styled hair. Mademoiselle Yvonne, conveys Lingner's awareness, as he wrote, of "the importance of the French woman in public life, in party life, in illegality, the resistance movement and in the fight for freedom and peace. I have often glorified her cheerful confidence, her passionate heroism with pen and brush." Yvonne, a fellow member of the Resistance, was arrested, tortured, and deported to Auschwitz, where she is thought to have died in the spring of 1943. A painting of a pensive man with pink cheeks who glares at the viewer. He is wearing long sleeve black shirt and khaki pants. He is holding a nettle. In 1930, Curt Querner joined the Communist Party and became, along with such painters as Wilhelm Lachnit, a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany. Querner lived in a proletarian district of Dresden near an employment office, where he saw firsthand the fate of the out-of-work. A Communist Party meeting in a bowling alley in Dresden on January 25, 1933, ended in a shootout with police, leaving nine dead and eleven seriously injured. Querner's Self-Portrait with Stinging Nettle was created after this bloodbath: the stinging nettle in the artist's hand can be read as a symbol of resistance in the face of menace. "My little 'self-portrait," the artist wrote, "has an aftertaste that not everyone likes. But that makes it a perfectly good picture. I am more attached to it than to anything else." A multi-panel cubist artwork showing somber figures in a muted color palette and dark frames. In 1947 Night over Germany was hailed as a masterpiece "whose accusation stirs, whose silence speaks," the "altar of the Hitler era." The painting's brutal reckoning with National Socialism sought to expose the crimes committed by the Reich. In the central panel, the artist processed his own experience of the concentration camps' barbarism. The left wing depicts civilians' fear during the nights of bombing; the right shows the terror of a hidden Jewish family. Only the predella, showing the resistance in the underground, hints at a vague hope of liberation. Processing of Nazi terror was problematic in the war's aftermath. Strempel was asked to remove the word "Jew" from the depiction of the hidden family. One of the main works of artistic engagement with the Nazi state, the painting disappeared into storage for decades. You can see it now @kimbellartmuseum Framed surreal painting with abstract figures and geometric shapes. Germany AWAKEN! by Karl Kunz is part of the 'degenerate art" exhibit at Kimbell Art Museum. Arrested in 1933 for giving aid to a Jewish professor, Kunz was banned from working as an artist. Returning to his hometown of Augsburg, he took over his father's woodworking business but secretly continued to paint on plywood panels found in the shop, easily hidden from view. In this painting, possibly inspired by Allied bombing raids in 1942, a dying man, woman, and child lie near a toppled wooden statue with a cross stabbed into its heart. From the rooftop of a fragmented building or from the sky, a man falls or leaps headfirst into the depths. To a dangerous subject Kunz gave a dangerous title, calling his painting Germany Awaken!, a quotation from the anthem of the Nazi storm troopers-deftly turning the phrase as a warning and call to action against the very forces that had first employed it.
June 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Wassily Kandinsky, Hornform (1924). Oil on cardboard. #kimbellartmuseum
Wassily Kandinsky, Hornform (1924). Oil on cardboard. At the Kimbell Art Museum’s traveling exhibit “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.”
May 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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liminal | subliminal | #SUBLIME
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Santa Maria della Vittoria
the ecstasy of St Teresa
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#ClassicMono #blackandwhite
April 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Santa Maria della Vittoria
the ecstasy of St Teresa
#architecture #FortWorth #TX
#LouisKahn #KimbellArtMuseum
#ClassicMono #blackandwhite
April 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Portrait of Mrs. Andrew Reid (Harriet Gildart) by George Romney (British) - Oil on canvas / c. l786–1788 - Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas) #womeninart #portrait #art #oilpainting #womensart #georgeromney #artwork #kimbellartmuseum #britishartist #romney #portraitofawoman #grandmanner #bskyart
This "grand manner" portrait represents Harriet Gildart, the granddaughter of Richard Gildart, M.P., who was twice mayor of Liverpool. The sitter married the famous brewer of London stout, Andrew Reid, and raised nine children. Harriet’s elegant and shapely form is fashionably elongated as she leans upon a stone pedestal. The upper portion of her hair was altered, probably by another artist, and is dressed in a style later than the date of the portrait. Her gaze is slightly downcast, conveying a sense of introspection and thoughtful contemplation. Her graceful, cross-legged pose and idealized features reflect the Neoclassical style popular during the late 18th century, implying a meditative, elevated state of mind, while the pale blue silk sash and white gown, flowing like the small waterfall that streams into a brook behind, emphasizes her harmony with the natural landscape. The dates of sitting for Mrs. Reid’s portrait are recorded in Romney’s diaries, which note that she made half of the payment in March of 1786, and that her husband paid the second half two years later. Known for his refined and elegant manner, George Romney enjoyed the highest reputation among British portraitists after Reynolds and Gainsborough. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. After a stay in Italy in 1773–75, where he made drawings after the antique and old masters such as Raphael, his career flourished and he adapted the compositions of these prototypes to portraits in the grand manner.
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Night at the Museum.

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January 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I went to the #kimbellartmuseum this week and it was, as always, wonderful.
November 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Opening of the Dutch Painters exhibition at the Kimbell. Sketched one of the members as she waited for her partner to view the Exhibition. #kimbellartmuseum #dutchpainting #sketch
November 9, 2024 at 11:38 PM
“La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide.” Claude Monet (French; 1840–1926). Oil on canvas, 1865. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

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November 4, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@kimbellartmuseum This is a painted sky appreciation post!

The ethereal, pink-tinged sky in Richard Parkes Bonington’s “The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Toward the Rialto” (1826)

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October 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Jacob van Ruisdael, “Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,” c. 1656. @kimbellartmuseum

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August 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Mondrian’s grid paintings restrict themselves to straight horizontal and vertical line & the rectangular shapes resulting from their crossing. Their palette is simply black, white, and the primaries: red, yellow & blue. Piet Mondrian, “Abstraction,” 1939–42

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August 25, 2024 at 1:17 AM
@kimbellartmuseum Nothing beats this point of view. 🤩
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July 29, 2024 at 1:41 AM
@kimbellartmuseum Did you know the word “leo” means “lion” in Latin?

“Lion,” Roman, c. A.D. 450–62

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July 23, 2024 at 11:01 PM
“View of Olevano.” Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French; 1796–1875). Oil on paper affixed to canvas, 1827. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

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July 23, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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An inscription on the stretcher reading “to my wife. . . C. Pissarro,” suggests that it was a wedding gift to Julie Vellay in celebration of their marriage on June 14th, 1871.
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Camille Pissarro, “Near Sydenham Hill,” 1871

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July 12, 2024 at 7:32 PM

“Composition” was inspired by the complicated geometry of the streetscape near his studio in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.

Happy Birthday to Mondrian, born #onthisday in 1872!
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Piet Mondrian, “Composition,” 1914. @kimbellartmuseum
March 8, 2024 at 1:34 AM