Retrospects

From the collection of the Museum of contemporary art in Zagreb

Finder of miraculous

Infeld Haus der Kultur

11.03.2023 to 10.12.2023

After the exhibition "Not a dream, just an experience" with Art Brut works from the Infeld Collection in summer 2022 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) in Zagreb, this year exceptional Croatian artists will be presented at the Infeld Haus der Kultur in Halbturn. Art works from the Infeld Collection complete the exhibition.

For the first time in Austria, the exhibition "Finder of miraculous” (“Wunderfinder") provides a representative insight into the impressive diversity of the outstanding Art Brut and Outsider Art collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Approximately 50 works on canvas, paper and wood by 17 artists invite discussion of social conditions and art historical concepts. The works were created in the last 40 years.

Petar Brajkovic, “Crazy”, Oil on Canvas, 1997

NEW in the Infeld Collection

Infeld Cultural Center Dobrinj

09.07.2023 to 30.09.2023

The exhibition "New in the Infeld Collection" shows the latest acquisitions of the Infeld Collection in the Infeld Cultural Center in Dobrinj.

The focus is on painting and drawing. The majority of these works come from artists from the former Yugoslavia (Boris Bucan, Ismar Mujezinovic, Mersad Berber, Zeljko Kipke) and Austria (Walter Schmögner, De Es Schwertberger, Tone Fink).

Franz Janz, „The Wretch and his animals“, Acrylic on Canvas, 2002

Works from the Infeld Collection

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

Infeld Travelling Collection

04.03.2023 to 17.09.2023

Museum Schütz, Engelhartszell, Austria

The exhibition "Vienna School of Fantastic Realism" in the Schütz Museum in Engelhartszell features 52 works from the Infeld Collection.

The beginning of the Infeld Collection, which today is one of the largest private collections in Austria, was the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Arik Brauer).

Wolfgang Marx, Portrait Margareta Infeld, Oil on Wood, 2005

Art Brut

Infeld Travelling Collection

23.06.2023 to 10.08.2023

The parish barn in Trausdorf an der Wulka, Austria

Works by well-known artists from Gugging can be seen as part of the "Art Brut" exhibition in the parish barn in Trausdorf. Every Gugging artist masters his own universe with enormous creativity and an unmistakable design language.

Ida Buchmann, "Big colorful stick figure", Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper, 1989

Croatia: Art and Sound

Infeld Haus der Kultur

05.03.2022 to 18.12.2022

The Infeld Haus der Kultur in Halbturn is showing the exhibition "Croatia: Art and Sound" with works by key figures of Croatian art from the Infeld Collection. The first in the series is the outstanding representative of Art Nouveau Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922). He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, was considered a prince among painters and a cosmopolitan artist who also produced 400 portraits and 150 paintings. His two female nudes, which can be seen in Halbturn, appear lively, yet delicate and fragile at the same time.

Vasilije Jordan, „Lagoon“, Oil on Canvas, undated

From Asia, Africa and Oceania

ART & SOUND

Infeld Cultural Center Dobrinj

10.07.2022 to 30.09.2022

Created by laymen and of impressive quality, the works of art in the exhibition "Art & Sound" span several centuries. The objects follow a predefined iconographic pattern and are loaded with symbolism without being primarily a creative expression of the painter. They quench the viewer's thirst for the unknown.
An outstanding example are the Tibetan scroll images of religious content (so-called thangkas). Painted on linen or silk, the thematic arc spans from icons of historical personalities to the pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism to complex religious-philosophical illustrations.

Thangka, Casein Tempera on Canvas, 19th Century, Tibet

Outsiders from the Infeld Collection

Not a dream, just an experience

Infeld Travelling Collection

21.06.2022 to 21.08.2022

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

The exhibition features the works of 38 artists from the first half of the 20th century to the present.

Fritz Koller, Untittled, 1993, Pencil Drawing on Cardboard

visualized dreams

Infeld Travelling Collection

07.10.2021 to 20.03.2022

Museum Gugging, Maria Gugging, Österreich

Seven works from Ida Buchmann (1911–2001), Johann Korec (1937–2008) and Johann Fischer (1919–2008) from the Infeld collection are part of the exhibition „visualized dreams“ in Museum Gugging.

The three Art Brut artists have immortalized their dreams in their artworks.

Ida Buchmann, Untitled, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper, 1989

Three decades from Schiele to Schlegel from private collections

On to something new

Infeld Travelling Collection

27.03.2021 to 06.02.2022

State Gallery of Lower Austria, Krems an der Donau, Austria

The exhibition features a rapid trajectory across the art of the 20th century. Roughly 150 pieces by 30 artists from important private collections show how three periods set the stage for the contemporary visual and stylistic language in Austria: the years from 1908 until the end of World War I, the decade following World War II and the 1990s.

Egon Schiele, Girl with green stockings, Gouache, 1914

Stars & Guitars

Infeld Haus der Kultur

06.03.2021 to 19.12.2021

The "Stars & Guitars" exhibition features works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Steve Kaufman, Mel Ramos, Kiki Kogelnik and other well-known Pop Art artists as well as rare guitars from the Infeld collection.
Pop Art moved the striking visual world of advertising and the mass media into the aesthetic focus. From bizarre to critical, artists delivered an imaginative interpretation of commercial products. It was not about a direct adoption of what was found in everyday life: The subjects were overdrawn, distorted, fragmented, endlessly duplicated and boosted to the point of absurdity. A unique iconography and visual language was created: recognizable, reduced, expressive.

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Finder of miraculous

NEW in the Infeld Collection

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

Art Brut

Croatia: Art and Sound

ART & SOUND

Not a dream, just an experience

visualized dreams

On to something new

Stars & Guitars

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