Wilhelm Leibl – The Art of Seeing
Until 26 July 2020
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Encouraged by Courbet, influenced by Manet, and esteemed by Van Gogh, Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) was among the most important representatives of realism in Europe. His oeuvre revolves around the uncompromisingly authentic portrayal of human beings. With his retreat from the city to the country, Leibl founded a style of modern figural painting in which the truth of nature took priority over the idylls and narrative tendencies of traditional genre painting. Wilhelm Leibl’s guiding principle was not that his models be beautiful, but that they be “well perceived.”
This exhibition, which includes loan works from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and the USA, arose in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zürich.
On view from 31 January until 26 July 2020.
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Wilhelm Leibl. Gut sehen ist alles! (in German)
Wilhelm Leibl (1844 - 1900) is considered one of the most important portraitists and most important representatives of realism in Europe. With large-format illustrations of over 40 paintings and 60 drawings, this volume accompanies the first comprehensive museum exhibition shown in Switzerland and Austria, which focuses on portraits and figurative representations.
Only available in German
Wilhelm Leibl. Gut sehen ist alles! (in German)
Hrsg. Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich
Hirmer Verlag
2019
288 pages
German EUR 39,90
Wilhelm Leibl: Self-Portrait, 1891
21.6 × 18.5 cm, Brushed black ink and opaque white, black chalk, outlines with graphite, mounted onto cardboard
(Kunsthaus Zürich, Grafische Sammlung, 1931 © Kunsthaus Zürich)
Wilhelm Leibl: The Village Politicians, 1877
ca. 76 × 97.5 cm, Oil on wood
(Kunst Museum Winterthur, Stiftung Oskar Reinhart © SIK-ISEA, Zürich (Lutz Hartmann))
Wilhelm Leibl: Portrait of a Young Woman, 1889
49 × 41 cm, Black pen and charcoal on paper
(Private collection, New York © Private collection, New York)
Wilhelm Leibl: Girl with a Carnation, Fragment of the Right Hand,
13 × 17.5 cm, Oil on wood
(Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe © bpk / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Annette Fischer/Heike Kohler)
Wilhelm Leibl: Peasant Seated, Stuffing a Pipe, 1894
69.7 x 46.5 cm, Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on paper
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
Wilhelm Leibl: Poachers, ca. 1882
49 × 72.3 cm, Charcoal on paper
(David Lachenmann Collection © Reto Pedrini, Zürich)
Wilhelm Leibl: Farmhouse, ca. 1875-1877
23.5 x 26.5 cm, Etching
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
Wilhelm Leibl: Girl With a White Headscarf, ca. 1876
21.4 × 16.7 cm, Oil on wood
(Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München – Neue Pinakothek © bpk / Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen)
Wilhelm Leibl: Girl Looking Downward, ca. 1897
42.8 x 33.9 cm, Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on paper
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
21.6 × 18.5 cm, Brushed black ink and opaque white, black chalk, outlines with graphite, mounted onto cardboard (Kunsthaus Zürich, Grafische Sammlung, 1931 © Kunsthaus Zürich)
ca. 76 × 97.5 cm, Oil on wood (Kunst Museum Winterthur, Stiftung Oskar Reinhart © SIK-ISEA, Zürich (Lutz Hartmann))
49 × 41 cm, Black pen and charcoal on paper (Private collection, New York © Private collection, New York)
13 × 17.5 cm, Oil on wood (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe © bpk / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Annette Fischer/Heike Kohler)
69.7 x 46.5 cm, Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
49 × 72.3 cm, Charcoal on paper (David Lachenmann Collection © Reto Pedrini, Zürich)
23.5 x 26.5 cm, Etching (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
21.4 × 16.7 cm, Oil on wood (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München – Neue Pinakothek © bpk / Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen)
42.8 x 33.9 cm, Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)