Visual Art: Morbid fantasies and dark dreams Kingdom of the Soul: Symbolist art in Germany, 1870-1920 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 18, 2000| Author: SIMON MORLEY | Copyright information

Don't be put off by the lurid posters for "Kingdom of the Soul". The purple background, an approximation to this season's fashionable colour in ladies' wear, and the image, Franz von Stuck's jail-bait painting of a saucy young girl ostensibly allegorising Spring, do not do justice to this exhibition. Perhaps the organisers thought the more characteristically Germanic colour and image - the deep murky browns and cold blues, the skulls, the winter trees, the muscular warriors - weren't a strong...

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