By Aspasia Zontanou
Düsseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast is staging Germany’s first exhibition devoted to the Greek painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos of the 16th century. El Greco has been a great source of inspiration to famous artist like Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Delauney, Macke and Marc.
In 1912 some of the painter’s works were first shown in Düsseldorf to a small group of German and other European artists like Max Beckmann, Max Oppenheimer, Ludwig Meidner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka. Nearly a century later the exhibition marks the anniversary of this encounter.
40 originals of El Greco’s work from famous American and European museums will be juxtaposed with 100 works of 38 painters from the early modernist period.
“El Greco and Modernism,” the title of the exhibition, explores the influence of El Greco’s spirit on Modernism and focuses on works that speak to the particular psychology of that time.
Düsseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast will host the exhibition until the 12th August 2012. Amongst others, there is also a project called “El Greco and Modernism and You”.
The idea is simple: 12 individuals from various cultural and professional backgrounds act as godfathers or godmothers to one of their favorite El Greco paintings.
People can watch their interviews and presentation in the museum or on youtube, facebook, local tv and can give their vote for their favorite presentation or painting.
Katherina Gainnidakis-Hahne, the president of the German-Greek Society (Deutsch-Griechische Gesellschaft) is one of them. She proudly shows and explains in her own words El Greco’s painting “Lakoon”.
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