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Deichtorhallen Hamburg

The Early Years of the Old Masters: Baselitz, Richter, Polke, and Kiefer 13.09.2019 - 05.01.2020

Since 1986 the main Hall for Contemporary Art hosts major exhibition projects with contemporary artists. Each exhibition is conceived in collaboration with the artists, often as a spectacular total work of art in its own right. With around 3,800 square meters of space, the Hall for Contemporary Art offers the largest single exhibition space for contemporary art in Europe and thus room for unique art installations that are only possible here.

The Early Years of the Old Masters: Baselitz, Richter, Polke, and Kiefer – four world-famous artists whose renown is unique in the history of the visual arts in Germany. They laid the foundations for this fame with their early work in the 1960s – a decade of challenges and upheavals, utopias and reorientations, reaction and rebellion. All four artists, who are featured together for the first time in this exhibition, paved the way for the unprecedented renown that they later experienced in Germany and abroad.