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The Shadow of the Avant-garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters

Edited by Kasper Koenig, Text by Daniel Baumann, Text by Tobia Bezzola, Text by Laszlo Glozer, Text by Robert Jones, Text by Veit Loers, Text by Katharina Neuburger, Text by Maria Anna Potocka, Text by Nina Schallenberg, Text by Barbara Schellewald

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Difficult to categorize and branded as naive -art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri Rousseau, Andre Bauchant, Morris Hirshfield, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis, or Seraphine Louis are far too often isolated in the light of an exotic primitivism, so to speak. Instead, the publication and the exhibition at the Museum Folkwang, since its founding the first museum worldwide devoted to modern art, surround their energy-laden works with key works from the modern era. It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the established artists of today with their paintings and sculptures, and often sponsored them. From this perspective, even contemporaries such as Miroslav Tichy make a contribution to the development of art and are no longer merely its antagonists.