Van Dongen: A Dutch Fauve In The French Arena

VAN DONGEN: A DUTCH FAUVE IN THE FRENCH ARENA

Es spricht
Anita Hopmans, Chef-Kuratorin des RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

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With the exhibition “Matisse and the Fauves” the Albertina wishes to highlight the multifaceted aspects of Fauvism achieved between 1900 and 1908. One of the contributers was the originally Dutch artist Kees van Dongen, regarded as one of the icons of this new art movement. Instead of travelling to Collioure or painting in places like Le Havre and Chatou, Van Dongen worked mostly in Montmartre. It is this special feature, the imago of this culturally indepent quartier in Paris, which became part of Van Dongens artistic identity and which he linked successfully with the avant-garde notion of Fauvism. In this lecture Anita Hopmans will go into the elements Van Dongen added to the movement and how his real status as a Fauve was only constituted at the end of Fauvism, around 1907-1908.

Anita Hopmans teached Art History at the University of Utrecht and the Academy of Art in Utrecht and Kampen and worked as a guest curator for several exhibitions. From 1990 onwards she worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She curated or co-curated several international exhibitions on the Dutch artist Kees van Dongen, among others The Van Dongen nobody knows. Early and fauvist drawings 1895-1912 / Van Dongen retrouvé. L’Oeuvre sur papier, 1895-1912, in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons / Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1996-1997; Van Dongen, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada) 2008-2009; All eyes on Kees van Dongen, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2010-2011; Van Dongen. Fauve, anarchiste et mondain, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 2011.