Florian Ilies and the Magic Of Silence
Eingang zum Karl Ernst Osthaus-Saal über Kahrstr. 16.
No German painter triggers emotions like Caspar David Friedrich. Even today, his evening skies remain icons of yearning; he inspired Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and Walt Disney’s “Bambi”. But Goethe was so angered by the puzzling melancholy of his pictures that he wanted to smash them on the edge of a table. The Museum Folkwang has important pieces of Friedrich’s work in its permanent collection. In The Magic of Silence, his epic journey through time, the art connoisseur and brilliant storyteller Florian Illies (“1913: The Year Before the Storm”) tells the adventurous story of Friedrich’s paintings. Countless paintings by Friedrich were burnt, while others such as “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen” reappeared one hundred years after his death. The artist was adored by Hitler and Kleist and hated by Stalin and the 1968 student movement – with the figure of Friedrich, we can trace 250 years of German history. Host: Claudia Dichter
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Date:
Saturday
21. October 2023
17:00 -
Pre Pre sale price (fees excluded) 26 € | 22 € erm.
Eve Evening fund price 32 € | 28 € erm.
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
