Der Wanderer
04 Jun - 01 Nov 2015
DER WANDERER
04 June – 01 November 2015
Curators: Geert van Eyck, Jan Schaerlackens, Reinout van den Bergh
Assistant Curator: Johanna Weggelaar
Concept and realization: MOTI (Museum of the image) and BredaPhoto, the Netherlands.
Production: Jeske Jacobs
Video Installation: Eelco Brand
Exhibition adaptation: Attila Kim
His appearance has appealed for centuries: the lonesome wanderer who stands atop a mountain, his back towards us. Staring into the distance, alone with his thoughts, he is one with nature. In how many paintings, photos, film posters, book and album covers, commercials and holiday pics has his image not been used?
Not everyone will know these images have (indirectly) been inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s (Germany, 1774-1840) Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818). The painting has become a symbol for the Romantic search for sublime beauty and for nature as the embodiment of that beauty ideal.
This exhibition is dedicated to the influence ofDer Wanderer on modern day Romanticism, featuring an archive of images of contemporaryWanderers from art and popular culture and the video installation ZS.movi that Eelco Brand (NL, 1969) made especially for BredaPhoto.)
04 June – 01 November 2015
Curators: Geert van Eyck, Jan Schaerlackens, Reinout van den Bergh
Assistant Curator: Johanna Weggelaar
Concept and realization: MOTI (Museum of the image) and BredaPhoto, the Netherlands.
Production: Jeske Jacobs
Video Installation: Eelco Brand
Exhibition adaptation: Attila Kim
His appearance has appealed for centuries: the lonesome wanderer who stands atop a mountain, his back towards us. Staring into the distance, alone with his thoughts, he is one with nature. In how many paintings, photos, film posters, book and album covers, commercials and holiday pics has his image not been used?
Not everyone will know these images have (indirectly) been inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s (Germany, 1774-1840) Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818). The painting has become a symbol for the Romantic search for sublime beauty and for nature as the embodiment of that beauty ideal.
This exhibition is dedicated to the influence ofDer Wanderer on modern day Romanticism, featuring an archive of images of contemporaryWanderers from art and popular culture and the video installation ZS.movi that Eelco Brand (NL, 1969) made especially for BredaPhoto.)