August Gaul Modern animals
The sculptor August Gaul (1869–1921) is considered a pioneer of both animal sculpture as an autonomous genre and modern abstraction. His sculptures depict zoo, domesticated and farm animals as beings with individual character and pulsating liveliness. Gaul lived in times of drastic transformation: industrialisation and increasing urbanisation from the end of the 19th century onward led to comprehensive social change, affecting the relationship between humans and animals.
In art, animals became symbols of a critique of modern civilisation and a yearning for a supposedly unspoilt state of nature. With more than 250 sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings, photographs and books the exhibition presents, for the first time, Gaul’s oeuvre in dialogue with contemporary works of art and testimonies from science, and popular culture. This contextualisation illustrates the modern redefinition of the relationship between human beings and animals, an issue that still has overwhelming relevance today.
Curator: K. Lee Chichester
Curatorial assistance: Anne-Christine Strobel
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