EXHIBITIONS
Selected Exhibitions and Participations
2024
Kosmos Alt-München
December 12–22 at the Munich Artists’ House
Under the patronage of Dr. Claus Hipp
“Kosmos,” in the context of the exhibition at the Munich Artists’ House on Lenbachplatz, refers to the entire lived reality of Munich’s residents in the 19th century. It encompasses the marketplaces and narrow alleys of the city center, the suburbs shaped by crafts and trades with their urban streams and modest lodging houses, as well as the excursion destinations favored by people of all social classes: Harlaching, Hesselohe, and Menterschwaige, along with Lake Starnberg as Munich’s “favorite lake.”
In a nearly systematic way, August Seidel collected motifs from Munich and its surroundings and preserved them in watercolors, paintings, and drawings.
You can find further information in the exhibition flyer.
2023-2024
Sehnsuchtsblaue Ferne!
December 10, 2023 – May 12, 2024 at the Municipal Gallery Rosenheim
Accompanying Program
A comprehensive program of events was offered alongside the exhibition. Further information is available at galerie.rosenheim.de. An accompanying publication was also released for the exhibition.
2020
200th Birthday of the Munich Painter August Seidel
On October 5, 2020, the Munich landscape painter August Seidel (1820–1904) would have celebrated his 200th birthday. On this occasion, the Munich City Museum, in cooperation with the Lenbachhaus, invited participants to a digital colloquium.
Despite his extensive and high-quality body of work in landscape painting in and around Munich, Seidel’s work has so far received little attention in academic research and is in urgent need of reassessment in light of current art-historical perspectives.
Based on the substantial collection of original graphic and painted works held by the City Museum and the Lenbachhaus, Seidel’s artistic production was reexamined and contextualized through a series of lectures from various scholarly perspectives.
Program
- Introduction: Karin Althaus, Lenbachhaus Munich, and Nico Kirchberger, Munich City Museum
- August Seidel and the 19th-Century Art Market: Frank Meißner, August Seidel Research Center, Munich
- Between Romanticism and Genre: August Seidel in the Munich Alpine Foothills: Susanne Glasl, Munich City Museum
- On the Concept of Realism in August Seidel’s Work: Marianne von Manstein, Munich
- Points of Contact: Artistic Mobility and European Networks in the Time of August Seidel: Arnika Groenewald Schmidt, Vienna