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With 80 top-class loans, mostly from the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg opened a retrospective with the works of the artist Georges Braque in October 2020.
“Dance of Forms”, as the show is called, brought the initiator of Cubism back to Germany in such a comprehensive way for the first time in over 30 years.
But the joy of the coup only lasted for a short time, as museums, exhibition houses and galleries also had to close their doors as a result of the lockdown.
As of Tuesday, Braque's works will be accessible to the public again - and with them the diversity of a painter "who, despite stylistic changes and formal breaks, always remained true to his line, very different from his companion Pablo Picasso," says the Bucerius Kunst Forum .
According to the information, the chronologically structured exhibition traces “his astonishing creative diversity”: from early Fauvist work to the development of Cubism to the last, almost abstract series of the post-war period.
The state museums of the Hanseatic city will also start on Friday.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle will also open two of its special exhibitions to visitors on Tuesday.
After opening steps for the cultural sector were decided at the most recent federal-state summit - depending on the incidence value - museums and exhibition halls are allowed to open after an appointment has been made in advance.
The appointments in Hamburg can be made from Thursday by phone or online
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Museums rely on tried and tested hygiene concepts
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The museums are implementing the extensive hygiene concepts that have already been tried and tested and ensuring that contacts are tracked, as the cultural authority announced on Monday.
“The long-awaited moment has arrived: after more than four months, the museums, exhibition halls and galleries can finally reopen,” said Senator for Culture Carsten Brosda (SPD).
It is right and responsible that the culture is present in the first opening steps.
When the culture lockdown took place in autumn, Brosda initially included it as part of the overall package, but then made it clear in a guest post on “Zeit online” in which area of tension he was currently traveling.
Above all, the Senator missed the appropriate appreciation and classification of culture by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
Further openings for culture by inoculation and testing
On Monday, Brosda emphasized that the museums with their tried and tested hygiene concepts, spacious rooms and good ventilation systems offer the best conditions for a safe cultural experience.
“And they are eager to show the exhibitions and projects that had to remain closed for so long.” Now we could rediscover the places that give us as a society such important impulses through art and culture.
"Looking ahead, I hope that progress in vaccination and clever testing strategies will allow further openings for culture," said the Senator for Culture.
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The director and board member of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, Hans-Jörg Czech, emphasized: “We are happy that, as museums and exhibition houses with many presentations that have so far been able to reach far too little audience, we are once again making a contribution to culture that goes beyond the digital he) to live in our city. "
According to the culture authority, the museums open with a comprehensive hygiene concept: According to this, in order to protect guests, when the public is open again, only a limited number of people are allowed to visit the exhibitions at the same time.
During the stay in the museum, as in numerous comparable everyday situations in public space, the obligation to wear a medical mask applies.
All guests must also provide their contact details.
Furthermore, the hygiene and distance regulations in accordance with the current containment ordinance apply.
In addition to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, other state houses will start on Friday: Altonaer Museum, Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Jenisch Haus, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World, Museum of Labor, Museum of Hamburg History, Museum for Arts and Crafts Hamburg, Foundation Hamburg Memorials and Places of Learning and Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg.
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In the Kunsthalle, for example, the exhibition “Max Beckmann.
feminine-masculine ”for the first time the numerous, often contradicting roles of femininity and masculinity in the works of the great modern artist.
The around 140 paintings, sculptures and works on paper shown make the breadth and social relevance of the gender issue tangible and enable a deeper understanding of Beckmann's multifaceted, sensual art, as the house reports.
His self-portrayals and double portraits, the portraits of men and women of his time, made it possible to experience the basic constants of human togetherness: desire, devotion, solicitation, rejection, dependence, conflict, thirst for freedom and fusion.
In addition, an exhibition on the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, who became one of the most important forerunners of Surrealism and New Objectivity, can be seen in the Kunsthalle and for the first time in Hamburg with “Magical Reality”.
A total of more than 80 masterpieces by de Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio Morandi, Alberto Magnelli, Alexander Archipenko, Pablo Picasso as well as by Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger can be discovered.