Kunst um 1800 kuratieren als wissenschaftliche praxis die hamburger kunsthalle in den 1970er jahren

The Art exhibition series around 1800 revised the historiography of European art, shaping debates about the practice of curating and the societal relevance of art that continue to reproduce today. Realized in nine parts between 1974 and 1981 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle under the direction of the then director Werner Hofmann, the cycle focused on the profound social, industrial and scientific revolution processes at the beginning of the 19th century in a groundbreaking way.
Art around 1800 was a research project, exhibition experiment, celebration of visual arts as well as political statement. In the course of the establishment of a controversial democracy in the 1970s, the series worked out the power of works of art in the "age of revolutions". At the center were artists who broke with the conventions of their time: Ossian, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, William Blake, Johan Tobias Sergel, William Turner, Philipp Otto Runge, John Flaxman and Francisco Goya.
The present volume documents with great detail all exhibitions of art around 1800 - a process in nine stages, which has been missing in the current considerations on the history of the art exhibition. Numerous authors from art and cultural history take a critical look at the time after 1968 and offer new perspectives on this decade of experiments.
PETRA LANGE-BERNDT is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art History Seminar of the University of Hamburg. Diemar Rübel is professor of history and theory of art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Together they have curated numerous exhibitions and published books.