The Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia is celebrating its third year of work with a special event. Two gentlemen are meeting-successful, vital octogenarians who are united by a passion: the passion for German art of the early twentieth century. This was a time shaped by the development of new forms of expression, a liberation from academic rules and ideological barriers, and from this emerged Expressionism, which seeks to come into contact with the soul of every person through art.
Among the connoisseurs of this instinctive art are on the one hand Gabriele Braglia, who with his wifte Anna (1934–2015) amassed collection of more than two hundred and fifty works (paintings, drawings, sculptures) by Italian and international artists. The core of this collection is defined by artists who worked in Munich and Murnau, known as exponents of the group Blauer Reiter (Heinrich Campendonk Se Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Augustpar Macke, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and Marianne von Werefkin), by Expressionists (Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner) and Bauhaus members (Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee). This part of the collection, to which Anna and Gabriele Braglia were devoted from the early nineteen nineties on, offers a significant and comprehensive overview of the art-historical developments of modern German painting.
It was Michael Beck's idea to unite these two collections for the first time in the exhibition From Kandinsky to Nolde - Two Collectors in Dialogue -The Braglia and Johenning Collections; after years of art consultation, Beck and the two couples had developed an amicable relationship.
Hardcover
In English, German, Italian
35.5 x 25 cm
209 pages