Who Are You?
Two centuries of portraits
24.05.2017-27.10.2019
Press tour: 24.05.2017
Opening: 24.05.2017, 7 pm
Duration: 25.05.2017-27.10.2019
Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9100
Info press: +43-316/8017-9211 or DDI -9213
About the exhibition
Portraits are among the oldest themes of the fine arts, long reflecting cultural-historical phenomena, too. This exhibition spans a period from the 19th century through the interwar period and the portents of ‘mass culture’ in Pop Art, up to current portraits, for which new media are also now employed. In Romanticism and Expressionism, one attempted to penetrate the soul of the subject depicted by means of the face. In Realism, by way of contrast, representation of bourgeois self-image was of primary concern. From the 1960s onwards, general artistic-visual issues were treated via the portrait, too, and never have portraits been more pervasive than is the case today: ‘selfies’ leave their mark on all areas of life in this age of social media.
Images
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Material

© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017 © Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Donation Collection Suschnigg, Photo: N. Lackner/UMJ
Warhol-Untitled-from-Marilyn-Monroe.jpg (2.52 MB)

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Danzer-Holler-Schuster-Wer-bist-du.jpg (2.21 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner, Background: Andy Warhol, "Untitled from Marilyn Monroe", 1967 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017 © Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Donation Collection Suschnigg, Photo: N. Lackner/UMJ
Holler-Schuster-Danzer-Wer-bist-du.jpg (1.7 MB)

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Holler-Schuster-Danzer-Wer-bist-du-01.jpg (1.68 MB)

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Ansicht-Wer-bist-du-Neue-Galerie-Graz-01.jpg (1.87 MB)

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Ansicht-Wer-bist-du-Neue-Galerie-Graz-25.jpg (1.28 MB)

Oil on canvas, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Allgayer-Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-I.jpg (3.31 MB)

Oil on canvas, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Amerling-Julie-Graefin-Woyna.jpg (2.97 MB)

Various materials, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner © Bildrecht, Wien, 2017
Hazoume-Chef-de-village.jpg (1.07 MB)

Oil on canvas, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Kupelwieser-Erzherzog-Johann.jpg (5.18 MB)

Silkscreen on paper, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Schenkung Sammlung Suschnigg Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Bildrecht, Wien 2017
Warhol-Red-Lenin.jpg (1.68 MB)

Black-and-white photograph, 36-part, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Willmann-Kontaktportrait.jpg (1.44 MB)

Video installation, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Wilson-VOOM-Portrait-Marianne-Faithfull.jpg (0.78 MB)
Press contact
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Marketing & Communications
Mariahilferstraße 4
8020 Graz, Austria
P: +43/316/8017-9211
F: +43/316/8017-9253
presse@museum-joanneum.at
Downloads
- Universalmuseum_Joanneum_Langtext_ENGL_2019.pdf (21 KB)
- UMJ-Programme-2020-E.pdf (2,164 KB)