{"id":30878,"date":"2022-05-03T07:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum-kueppersmuehle.de\/ausstellung\/e-w-nay-retrospektive\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:44:16","slug":"e-w-nay-retrospektive","status":"publish","type":"ausstellung","link":"https:\/\/museum-kueppersmuehle.de\/en\/ausstellung\/e-w-nay-retrospektive\/","title":{"rendered":"E.W. Nay \u2013 Retrospektive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 24 – August 6, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Last year, the painter Ernst Wilhelm Nay would have been 120 years old.To mark the occasion, the MKM Museum K\u00fcppersm\u00fchle is showing a comprehensive, retrospective exhibition atwith works from allfive decades of his artistic career. Nay is still afamous protagonist of German post-war modernism. His formalabstraction asserted itself parallel to Art Informel. His early representational paintings, influenced by lateExpressionism, form thebasis for Nay’s later abstract work, which is characterized by a powerfully dynamicautonomy of free colour forms.<\/p>\n\n

The exhibition at the MKM presents around 70 paintings covering all creative phases ofNay’s oeuvre. Beginning with his late paintings, the retrospectiveleads back chronologically through the stylistically and thematically different stagesof his work. Depending on when they were created, Nay’s works fascinate with theirintense color-form interaction, their surface-space composition or figure-groundcorrelation. Starting from figurative painting, the artist developed anincreasingly abstract formal language that refers back to his early work.<\/p>\n\n

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“The tensions, the energies of the surface, the color, from color to surface, led tocompletely different new pictorial concepts, the song, the dance of the surface, if you will<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n

E.W. NAY, REGESTEN ZU LEBEN UND WERK, 1958<\/p>\n\n

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Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902 – 1968) is one of the most important painters of the 20th century.Even as a young artist around 1930, he had already gained recognition in the art world, was represented in important exhibitions and received his first prizes. Withhis participation in the documenta in Kassel in 1955, 1959 and 1964 as well as the biennialsin S\u00e3o Paulo and Venice, he established himself as a permanent fixture in the art ofmodernism. At the MKM, his work can be seen in the context of the work of his contemporaries at: The new museum extension houses the most comprehensive international collection ofGerman post-war art with exemplary works from neighboringEuropean countries. For the first time in 20 years, Ernst Wilhelm Nay is now being honored with a comprehensive retrospective at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exhibition of the Hamburger Kunsthalle<\/a><\/strong> in cooperation with the Ernst WilhelmNay Foundation<\/a><\/strong>the Museum Wiesbaden<\/a><\/strong> and the Museum K\u00fcppersm\u00fchle for ModernArt, Duisburg.Click here for the accompanying program.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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