Hundertwasser and Beuys - art as a ritual in the 50s and 60s
Lecture by Bazon Brock
Leopold Museum, Wien, Foto: Lisa Rastl
15/11/2020 11:00—12:30
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After the Second Vatican Council in 1962 at the latest, action artists in the fields of music, literature, theatre and painting took over moments of Catholic ritual and liturgies. The arts became secular successors of the churches. They remained the last field of metaphysical self-exaltation for enlightened Westerners. One of the earliest confirmations of this tendency, which continues to this day, was the Hamburg line of December 1959, now part of the Hundertwasser exhibition in the Leopold Museum. Bazon Brock carried these movements into action and theory.
Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum houses the art collection established by Rudolf Leopold. Its highlight is the “Vienna 1900” presentation, featuring the world’s most important collection of works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Viennese Modernism, international Classical Modernism and the Wiener Werkstätte. The museum also shows special exhibitions in the context of the collection.
