Art and Jazz since 1920. Exhibition “I Got Rhythm” Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 10, 2015 – Mar. 6, 2016

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart currently is showing a huge collection of international artists who put their impressions of jazz on canvas. More than 140 creators will be displayed, among them Willem de Kooning Jean-Michel Basquiat, Beauford Delaney, Adolf Loos, Jackson Pollock, Francis Picabia, Raoul Dufy, Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, K. R. H. Sonderborg and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition is the final show in a ten-year thematic line of presentations by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart dealing with the fusion of “art and music.” And the many exhibits tell a long story about the different ways the varying styles of jazz since 1920 have left their mark on popular culture and painting.

(Picture: Lotte B. Prechner
Jazztänzerin (Jazz dancer)
1929
Oil tempera on wood
74 x 52 cm
LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn
Picture: Jürgen Vogel, LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn
© LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn)

According to the museum, this show is the biggest German exhibition ever dealing specifically with the artistic exchange of art and jazz. Listening stations next to the exhibits offer tunes by jazz artists as divers as Nat Gonella, Charles Mingus, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstong, Branford Marsalis, Weather Report, Klaus Doldinger and Paul Whiteman.

The program is accompanied by a string of jazz concerts, featuring Wolfgang Dauner Jason Moran, Rolf Kühn and Alexander von Schlippenbach and others.

(Picture: Otto Dix
Großstadt (Big City) (triptych, middle part)
1927/28
Oil and tempera on wood 181 x 402 cm
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Picture: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart / Uwe H. Seyl
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015)

If you are in Germany now  … you should consider going …  you may not see all of these fantastic paintings in one place again….

I GOT RHYTHM. KUNST UND JAZZ SEIT 1920

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
October 10, 2015 – March 6, 2016
Curators are Dr. Ulrike Groos, Sven Beckstette, Markus Müller and Daniel Milnes

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Text © by Dr.  A. Ebert 2015