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home > collections > art of europe > european modernism in the rabb gallery
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| | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner settled in Switzerland after suffering a complete mental and physical collapse during World War I. As exemplified in his painting Mountain Landscape from Clavadel (1925-25), above, he turned to painting the high Alps with bold colors and coarse brushwork, expressing his yearning for the ideal of man at peace with the forces of nature, an ideal that contrasted sharply with his own wartime experience. | |
Reopening mid-April 2009, the Rabb Gallery is the new home for the MFA's collection of European paintings and sculptures from 1900 through the 1960s. Beginning with early paintings by Matisse, the principal protagonist of Fauvism (the first avant-garde movement at the turn of the century), the gallery features works by major figures of twentieth-century Modernism. German and Austrian Expressionism can be seen in paintings and sculpture by Kokoschka, Kirchner, Beckmann, and Kollwitz. Surrealism is explored through the works of Miró and the Belgian Delvaux. Postwar masterpieces include a rarely seen painting by de Staël and sculptures by Giacometti and Moore.
American Modernism is also on view in this gallery, with works by Stella, Hartley, and Pollock, whose revolutionary approach to painting became the basis for the radical explorations of Contemporary art.
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