Rendez-vous of dreams, surrealism and German romanticism: Kunsthalle, Hambourg

One hundred years ago, the most renowned artistic movement of the twentieth century emerged in Paris: Surrealism. Sparked by a reconsideration of value systems in the aftermath of the First World War, it was a current that would shape the twentieth century like no other. Surrealism displayed a striking »elective affinity« in particular with German Romanticism. The supernatural and irrational, dreams and chance, a feeling of community and encounters with a changing natural world were vital sources of inspiration for German Romanticism and shaped international Surrealism differently a century later. Starting with André Breton’s First Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, fascinating parallels come to light with respect to fundamental questions, attitudes, motifs and even pictorial processes.