Opening Reception The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism

On the exhibition
Sabine Folie, Director Art Collections
Helmut Draxler, Curator
Opening
Ingeborg Erhart, Vice-Rector for Art and Teaching

Exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism with historical works from the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna – Paintings Gallery, Graphic Collection, and Plaster Cast Collection – supplemented by numerous loans and contemporary art

Sandro Botticelli, Sébastien Bourdon (attributed), Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Artemisia Gentileschi (attributed), William Hogarth, Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder, Charles Le Brun, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Francis Picabia, Nicolas Poussin, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Joachim von Sandrart, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Jakob van Schuppen, George Stubbs, Pierre Subleyras, Titian, Giorgio Vasari, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Januarius Zick et al.

Plaster casts after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Antonio Canova et al., as well as Écorché (anatomical figure) by Johann Martin Fischer

Contemporary artists: Abel Auer, Alice Creischer, Vaginal Davis, Stephan Dillemuth, Thomas Eggerer, Michaela Eichwald, Abdulnasser Gharem, Wolfgang Hollegha, Andy Hope 1930, Jörg Immendorff, Stephan Janitzky, Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Roy Lichtenstein, Markus Lüpertz, Birgit Megerle, Ariane Mueller, Chris Reinecke, Gunter Reski, Katharina Sieverding, Hong Zeiss und and Heimo Zobernig

Curated by Helmut Draxler

With curatorial contributions by Claudia Koch (chapter Gallery Painting) and Hans-Jürgen Hafner (chapter Düsseldorf Academy)