An event exhibition
The exhibition unveiled in Dijon marks the first part of a triptych dedicated to Germanic paintings in the French collections. The route, divided into four sections, will give visitors a glimpse of German painting from 1370 to 1530. Organized under the patronage of the President of the French Republic, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the President of the Swiss Confederation, this exhibition benefits from exceptional loans from national institutions (Musée du Louvre and Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes de Cluny, for example) and museums in the region (Orléans, Nancy, Grenoble, etc.). The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté accompanied and supported this project.
If the first part of the route evokes the «international Gothic», style community between 1380 and 1430 in Central and Western Europe, the second part is devoted to religious painting and its evolution at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The exhibition will then dive into a reconstructed painter’s studio and evoke the secrets of the realization of the works. The last part of the journey will evoke the rupture in the representation of reality that takes place from 1430.
An important mediation mechanism accompanies the exhibition. In addition to guided tours, fun workshops will be organized to discover German painting and its techniques. A phone application will also allow you to consult rich content on the course. Free, it is downloadable or available on devices lent by the museum.
In a new triptych
The Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon, the Unterlinden Museum of Colmar and the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon in partnership with the National Institute of Art History (INHA) present from May 4 to September 23, 2024 three exhibitions from the same project, devoted to Germanic painting from 1370 to 1550. Nearly 200 works from the French collections are displayed to trace the richness of this production. Alongside great masters such as Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer or Martin Schongauer, the exhibitions are also an opportunity to discover lesser-known works and artists.
With loans from Parisian museums (Musée du Louvre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes de Cluny, etc.), museums in the region (Orléans, Lyon, Roanne, Marseille, Agen, Grenoble, Moulins, Lille, etc.) and churches (Luemschwiller, Marckolsheim, Weyersheim, etc.), each of the three museums offers a route related to its own collections and the cultural and historical specificities of its territory.
Made in Germany. German paintings from French collections (1500-1550)
at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon
Thanks to its attachment to the Holy Empire and successive donations to the city, Besançon preserves a significant set of Germanic works that visitors will find in the exhibition, such as the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), court painter with a strong commercial logic. The portraits of the Renaissance, reflections of fashion and the art of appearance will rub shoulders with religious works, several of large format, which will immerse themselves in the political-religious universe of the time. The great master of the Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), will be exceptionally represented by his paintings and prints. The exhibition will end with a masterpiece from Besançon: the Prayer book of the emperor Maximilian I usually preserved from view.
Colour, glory and beauty. German paintings from the French collections (1420-1536)
at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar
Opened in 1853, the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar covers nearly 7,000 years of history, from prehistory to the art of the 21st centurye century. This journey through time, through collections of archaeology, fine arts, history and society, unfolds in a unique architecture, unified and magnified by the extension of architects Herzog & de Meuron completed in 2015. In the exhibition «Colour, Glory and Beauty», conceived in echo to its collections, the Unterlinden museum invites to a discovery of German painting between 1420 and 1540 on its territory, the Upper Rhine. The exhibition brings together about sixty painted panels, attributed to renowned artists (Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien) and others, which it allows to discover.
Germanic paintings in French collections: an INHA research programme
The exhibitions presented at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon, the Unterlinden Museum of Colmar and the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon were able to see the day thanks to the work carried out as part of a research program, initiated by the INHA, aiming to list Germanic paintings in the French collections between 1370 and 1550.
To discover the exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon
From 4 May to 23 September 2024
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