Eternal love immortalised in bronze. – With his modern, almost sketch-like modelling, Auguste Rodin captured the fleeting climax of the love story of Amor and Psyche.
One almost wants to join the procession of the farmers, that’s how contagious their merriment in the bright sunlight flooding the forest is.
A view to bygone days of Kassel: the small-format painting gives an impression of Kassel’s city centre around 1900, showing the Königstor at sunset after a shower of rain.
A “history of art history” – the country figures were part of the historical décor programme of the Königliche Gemäldegalerie at the Schöne Aussicht in Kassel.
Joseph Beuys’ significant installation “The pack (das Rudel)” from 1969 has belonged to the “Raum in der Neuen Galerie” (“Room in the New Gallery”), which the artist personally installed at its opening, since 1976.
Blurry and yet distinct: in an unmistakable fashion, the painting created in 1964 depicts Arnold Bode, who initiated the documenta art exhibition in Kassel in 1955.
In this complex installation, Michael Rakowitz interweaves stories of destruction from different times and countries, creating unexpected cross-references.
Nine chairs, no table. There were no negotiations, only the deaths of almost all involved persons, when on 6 and 7 November 1985 the guerrilla group M-19 raided the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.