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Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection: Vol. 1: Classical Modernism 1880-1950 - Hardcover

 
9783777433424: Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection: Vol. 1: Classical Modernism 1880-1950

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The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 1 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 80 selected works from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, from Paul Gauguin to Alberto Giacometti. Ranging from Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Plasticism and Surrealism to Abstraction, the part of the collection shown in Volume 1 focuses on the following content and artists: the form of man in space in time in the works of Lehmbruck, Boccioni, Picasso and Giacometti; the representational world of things and nature in works by Kirchner, Gris, Feininger and Dubuffet; the imaginary world of symbols and ciphers in the works of Gauguin, Klee, Beckmann and Miró; and the non-representational world of geometric and informel design in the works of Léger, Mondrian, Kandinsky and Wols.

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The Hilti Art Foundation was created in the early 1990s to support and manage the art collection of the Hilti family.

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Since the 1970s, members of the Hilti family have been actively engaged in the collection of art. The systematic long-term development and growth of the collection began in the early 1990s.

The collection of the Hilti Art Foundation currently contains some 200 paintings, sculptures, objects and photographs from the period of classical modernism to the present. After more than twenty years of dedicated collecting activity, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and Surrealism, along with Concrete Art and Zero, have emerged as clearly recognizable and increasingly important focal points. Individual artists such as Kirchner, Picasso, Beckmann and Giacometti or Fontana, Graubner, Knoebel, Scully and Struth are each represented with several works.

A characteristic trait of private collections is that they reflect the individual interests of the respective collectors, their highly personal approach to art. This also applies to the collection of the Hilti Art Foundation. Originating in a desire for beauty and aesthetic pleasure, the collection is marked by pronounced sensuous qualities, especially in the genre of painting. At the same time, however, it is guided by a conscious perception of the formal and conceptual changes in the art of the late nineteenth and the entire twentieth century.

The goal of the collection is to continually broaden and publicly disseminate the understanding of this epoch.

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