Three. The Triptych in Modern Art
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Work by Francis Bacon

Three. The Triptych in Modern Art

The triptych as an altarpiece or devotional image played a pivotal role in Western art since the Middle Ages. This religiously motivated artistic tradition came to a halt with Rubens and was first readopted at the close of the 19th century, producing radically new images and focusing on novel, drastic subject matter.

Taking up the Christian motif of suffering, many significant artists in modern times make existential statements on humanity. Otto Dix, Max Beckmann or Markus Lüpertz conceive modern myths and express political viewpoints. Others, such as Jannis Kounellis, Dieter Roth or Ellsworth Kelly, ennoble materials, color and form by means of the triptych. The exhibition “Three. The Triptych in Modern Art” exemplarily showed the transformation of this type of image, its impact and current relevance, and investigated also the demarcation between it and the image series or sequence.

Curator Marion Ackermann

Works by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann
Otto Dix, Großstadt / Metropolis, 1927/28, Max Beckmann, Argonauten / Argonauts, 1949/50
Work by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, Three Studies of the Male Back, 1970
Exhibition view Three Triptych
Bjørn Melhus, Deadly Storms, 2008; Markus Lüpertz, Schwarz-Rot-Gold I-II-III / Black-Red-Gold I-II-III, 1974; Francis Bacon, Three Studies of the Male Back, 1970
Exhibition view Three Triptych
Emilio Vedova, Trittico della libertà, 1950; Robert Longo, The Haunting, 2005
Exhibition view Three Triptych
Joe Coleman, War Triptych, 2003; Otto Dix, Karton zum Kriegstriptychon / Cardboard for war triptych, 1930
Exhibition view Three Triptych
Niki de Saint Phalle, O.A.S., 1962 (1991); Katharina Sieverding, Steigbild X, 1997

Catalog

Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne /
Three. The Triptych in Modern Art

The publication exemplarily shows the transformation of this type of image, its impact and current relevance, and investigates also the demarcation between it and the image series or sequence. Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung

Edited by Marion Ackermann
With a foreword by Marion Ackermann and texts by Marion Ackermann, Wolfgang Ullrich, Joachim Valentin et al.
Hardcover, 328 pages with 100 color illustrations, German
ISBN 978-3-7757-2327-5
29 € (museum), 39.80 € (regular)

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