The 1950s represented a time of upheaval after the end of the Second World War and the National Socialist dictatorship. Within a fiercely fought debate about abstraction and figuration, abstraction prevailed in the young Federal Republic. The aim of the exhibition is a new and differentiated look at this much-discussed first decade of art in the West.
The exhibition focuses on a juxtaposition of the three most important artist groups of the time - "Zen49" in Munich, "Junger Westen" in Recklinghausen and "Quadriga" in Frankfurt. It is intended to show the heterogeneity of this period of awakening and the diversity of abstract positions. The decade of new beginnings and reconstruction reveals itself as a decade of search.
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