From 30 January to 26 Might 2025, the Belvedere in Vienna presents the exhibition “The World in Colours: Slovenian Portray 1848−1918”
Supply: Belvedere · Picture: Ivan Grohar, “The Area of Rafolče”, 1903. Picture: Belvedere, Vienna
Becoming a member of forces with the Nationwide Gallery of Slovenia, the Belvedere is presenting highlights of Slovenian portray from the period of nationwide emancipation—from the revolution 12 months of 1848 to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918.
The exhibition spotlights the defining attribute of Slovenian portray round 1900: the intensive engagement with coloration. A give attention to the research of its ornamental impact, symbolism, expressive energy, and technical utility was, at the moment, present in few different locations to the identical extent.
Following Jožef Tominc, the excellent painter from the pre-1848 interval, the second half of the nineteenth century introduced forth fascinating personalities comparable to Jožef Petkovšek and Ivana Kobilca. Round 1900 the group referred to as the Slovenian Impressionists shaped round Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matija Jama, and Matej Sternen. Their type influenced Slovenian artwork till 1918 and past.
The exhibition will give particular consideration to Slovenian artists’ ambivalent relationship to Austria and its capital Vienna. Many of those artists studied or lived for a time in Vienna, Graz, or Decrease Austria. This ambivalence stemmed from a way of latent exclusion whereas on the identical time being depending on state funding. On this context, many paperwork from the Belvedere Archive will shed a contemporary, extra nuanced gentle on the cultural-political ties between Vienna and Ljubljana.
