Battle and Passion

Japanese Colour Woodcuts

07.04. - 20.08.2017

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Duration

07.04. - 20.08.2017

Opening

06.04.2017, 7pm

Location

Neue Galerie Graz

Curators

Peter Peer

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About the
Exhibition

The Neue Galerie Graz owns some 300 coloured woodcuts, mainly by Japanese artists, as well as several works of Chinese painters of the period from the end of the 18th to the 19th century.


The Neue Galerie Graz owns some 300 coloured woodcuts, mainly by Japanese artists, as well as several works of Chinese painters of the period from the end of the 18th to the 19th century. The variety of themes in Japanese art of this period is also reflected in several areas of the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz:

Kabuki scenes show famous actors in characteristic roles, for instance. Ukiyo-e illustrations reflect the life and culture of Japan’s bourgeois society.

A selection of commercial art likewise offers insight into a culture that appears exotic to us, and yet in some areas, modern.

Glimpses

Kurator Peter Peer in die der Ausstellung "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Ausstellungsansicht, "Kampf und Leidenschaft",

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Utagawa Kunisada I [Utagawa Toyokuni III] (1786–1865) "Der Held Usuri Sadateru tötet ein dreiäugiges Monstrum in Menschengestalt"

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Nishimura Shigenobu (1784–1832) "Der Schauspieler Matsumote Kōshirō IV. vom Shinmachi-Theater in Osaka"

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) "Die Tempel von Asoi, Fujisawa"

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) "Feuerwerk von Ryogoku"

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Kikugawa Eizan (um 1787–1867) "Frühlingsspaziergang im Regen"

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) "In den Bergen der Provinz Izu"

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Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) "Wettbewerb zivilisierter Schönheiten"

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