Toulouse-Lautrec

The 2009 European Capital of Culture throws in its lot with Paris, the city that was at one stage the undisputed capital of Europe’s culture.

Exactly one hundred years after part of his oeuvre was first shown in Austria, the Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, which will be running at the Provincial Gallery in Linz until June 07, 2009, focuses on one of the artist’s most characteristic features.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the great painters of the Post-Impressionist period, is usually seen against the backdrop of bohemian, raucous Montmartre. Yet below the dashing brilliant surface lies a highly developed sensitivity. Lautrec’s searching gaze is directed at modern man and his inner contradictions convey the real character that distinguished him as a human being and as an artist. The painter is more than an unconcerned observer of a period of transitions and its tensions: his art speaks to his own life that spanned the poles of aristocratic privilege and bodily handicap.

As this dimension has not yet received the attention it deserves it will be put at the centre of the show in the Provincial Gallery of Linz. Contemporary photographs of the kind that served as aides-mémoire to Toulouse-Lautrec will supplement the many paintings on view.

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