In 1929 Louis Christian Hess was among the founders of the Union of the Munich painters "Juryfreie" (without a jury). "The artistic experience of painters formed in Germany after World War I dig a deep groove with the tradition of previous expressionist – said Giuseppe Maria Ardizzone, president of the cultural Christian Hess of Rome -. It 'a season of change of expression patterns, the birth of new mass media takes place in those years, the production revolution and the war transformed the man and society. Louis Christian Hess recounts reality through forms, figures, places and myths, transcending the figurative representations academy and filling deep intensity of figuration and color, focusing on the man, the topos and the light. "
On display in Lucca over 40 works that richly describe the accents of this artistic experience, European bridge between the sharp fractures of central Europe and "the soft roundness of the Mediterranean narrative, in an exploration that post-war experience from hell, trace a path towards an ideal and heavenly peace that Italy seems to embody. This exhibition – concludes Ardizzone – made possible by the significant attention of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, returns to Tuscany, through the work of Louis Christian Hess vivid testimony of the passage and permanence of the European protagonists of modern art. "
LOUIS CHRISTIAN HESS AND ITALY
Lucca, the exhibition building of the Foundation Banca del Monte di Lucca
Piazza San Martino, 7
June 11 / July 31, 2016
Hours: Monday / Friday 15:00 / 19:00 and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 / 13:00 15:00 / 19:00
free entry