Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Collection Beyeler; Photo: bpk/Roman März
Henri Roussea, Le Lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l´antilope, 1898/1905
Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda shows self-taught art
The painters of the Sacred Heart
André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Séraphine Louis, Henri Rousseau and Louis Vivin: all of them probably never thought they would become famous with their art one day. After all, they were actually tax collectors, gardeners, fairground ringers or housekeepers. But their self-taught painting convinced one man in particular: Wilhelm Uhde. The Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden tells their story starting July 16.
July 16, 2022
Séraphine Louis (1864-1942), Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), Camille Bombois (1883-1970), André Bauchant (1873-1958), Louis Vivin (1861-1939) – they belong to the circle of Sacred Heart painters. Autodidacts without academic training, for whose talent the German art historian and dealer, author and gallery owner Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947) had a sense. He was enthusiastic about the flowers, fruits, animals, and landscapes that the learned publican, gardener, or fairground wrestler and his housekeeper put on paper. They testified to »an immediate connection to nature, a soulful approach to the things of the immediate environment.« Uhde christened the group the sonorous name the Painters of the Sacred Heart and organized a first show in Paris in 1928.
Starting July 16, the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden will retell their story and pay tribute to both the work of the self-taught artists and their discoverer and mentor Wilhelm Uhde with Painters of the Sacred Heart. It is the first such extensive exhibition of the group. Except for two paintings by Henri Rousseau from the Fondation Beyeler and the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, it is fed by a selection of works from the collection of Charlotte Zander (1930-2014). It will be on view from July 16 to November 20.
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She is a national heroine in Finland, but has only become known internationally in recent years: Helene Schjerfbeck fascinates with her original, simple style. For the first time, a major museum in the USA is presenting her work: Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck opens on December 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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