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The Americans, a group of photos shot by Robert Frank between 1955 and 1957, made photographic history: these works, which Frank took on a series of road trips through the United States, illuminate the post-war “American way of life” in grim black and white, revealing a reality of pervasive racism, violence, and consumer culture. Due to his images’ failure to uphold America’s self-image at the time, it was at first only possible to publish the synonymous book in Europe. But with The Americans, Robert Frank did ultimately succeed in creating one of the most influential photographic works of the post-war period while also effecting a sustained renewal of street photography.
The Albertina, in its exhibition, is showing selected groups of works that make it possible to retrace Robert Frank’s development as an artist: from his early Swiss photo reportages and travel photos to The Americans and on to his introspective late oeuvre, central aspects of his work are placed front and centre.
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Gottfried Helnwein: Pink Mouse 2, 2008
Oil, Acrylic on Canvas
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Alex Katz: Reclining Figure / Indian Blanket, 1987
Aquatint
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Sevda Chkoutova: East Meets West, 2012
Graphite pencil
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Sevda Chkoutova)
William Kentridge: Camera in Landscape, 1994
Charcoal, colored chalk on ground, collage
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © William Kentridge / Marian Goodman Gallery, New York)
Anselm Kiefer: Woglinde, 1982-2013
Woodcut, oil, acrylic, and shellac on paper, collage on canvas
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Anselm Kiefer and The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Burhan Dogancay: Eddie, 1965
Gouache on cardboard
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Dogancay Foundation)
Georg Baselitz: Lovers, 1894 – Old Objectivity (Remix), 2007
Oil on canvas
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Georg Baselitz)
Jack Pierson: TWILIGHT: trUsT – series of 14 pieces, 2011
Silkscreen, archival pigment print, collage, gold leaf
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Jack Pierson and Galerie Sabine Knust Munich)
Johannes Deutsch: Box F.V, 1993
Photo and gouache
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Markus Schinwald: Lydia, 2016
Carbon print
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2017)
Marlene Dumas: Male Beauty, 2002
Metallic acrylic and ink on paper
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Marlene Dumas)
Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1999
Acrylic
(© The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Sonja Gangl: CAPTURED ON PAPER_eyes, 2015
Pencil
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Sonja Gangl)
Stefan Zsaitsits: Two, 2014
Plumbago
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Oil, Acrylic on Canvas (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Aquatint (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Graphite pencil (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Sevda Chkoutova)
Charcoal, colored chalk on ground, collage (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © William Kentridge / Marian Goodman Gallery, New York)
Woodcut, oil, acrylic, and shellac on paper, collage on canvas (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Anselm Kiefer and The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Gouache on cardboard (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Dogancay Foundation)
Oil on canvas (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Georg Baselitz)
Silkscreen, archival pigment print, collage, gold leaf (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Jack Pierson and Galerie Sabine Knust Munich)
Photo and gouache (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Carbon print (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2017)
Metallic acrylic and ink on paper (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Marlene Dumas)
Acrylic (© The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)
Pencil (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Sonja Gangl)
Plumbago (The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017)