October 2006: Eros in Modern Art

Almost all the media of modern and contemporary art are represented: from painting and sculpture to video and film, from drawing to graphic art and photography.
The exhibition reflects artists’ fascination with Eros as the principle that impels the world, as well as the creation of art, and on which life depends just as much as its inevitable companion, death.

Francis Bacon, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Pierre Bonnard, André Breton, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Valie Export, Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Serge Hasenböhler, David Hockney, Ferdinand Hodler, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Alfred Kubin, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Fernand Léger, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Roy Lichtenstein, Edouard Manet, Robert Mapplethorpe, André Masson,Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Morris, Koloman Moser, Otto Mueller, Edvard Munch, Bruce Naumann, Helmut Newton, Emil Nolde,Meret Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Man Ray, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Egon Schiele, Franz von Stuck, Yves Tanguy, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton, are among the artists whose works are on view.

Pierre Bonnard
Le cabinet de toilette au canapé rose (ou Nu à contre-jour ou L’Eau de Cologne), 1908

Jeff Koons
Woman in Tub, 1988

Rebecca Horn
The Lover’s Bed, 1990