Frieder Burda / Granet Museum

The special exhibit at the Musee Granet was a particularly pleasant surprise. 

It was the first time Frieder Burda's exceptional collection of Expressionist and Neo-Expressionist pieces had shown in any other museum but his own. 

Burda is a German art collector with a particular interest in Expressionism. A greater emphasis on instinct, introspection and a certain mysticism was the characteristic of the artistic movement of this trend. Starting in the 1890s, certain artists abandoned the representation of an objective reality, following the example of Impressionism, in favor of a free expression of their individual subjectivity. As you can imagine, the resulting works are quite varied and  interesting. 

Among Picasso and Pollock, there was a lot of work by Gerhard Richter. 

Gerhard Richter / Le Chateau de Neuschwanstein / 1963

Considered by many to be on of the most famous living painter, Gerhard Richter defines himself as an artist without a style. As an eclectic artist, he practices all types of paintings and he has a great capacity for renewal and setting himself new challenges. 

Georg Baselitz was a neo-expressionist that painted upside down, believing that, "inverting the figure gives me the freedom to really confront pictorial problems." 

Sigmar Polke / Freudinnen / 1967

Jackson Pollock / The Tea Cup / 1946

Pollock's aim was painting as a "state of being."

I'm inspired to go see Burda's real museum, (designed by Frank Gehry) to get a complete sense of the collectors vision. 

Baden-Baden, Germany - here I come?