Auguste Herbin

The opening of the exhibition"Auguste Herbin" will take place on Monday, June 2 from 7 pm. The Lenbachhaus cordially invites you and your friends.

The French painter Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) is considered a revolutionary of modernism and one of the founders of abstraction in France. Shortly after the turn of the century, he began to paint late Impressionist landscapes, still lifes and portraits, already in bright, yet harmoniously handled colors, which became wild in the subsequent Fauvist phase and remained so for the rest of his life.

The exhibition covers the most important stages in Herbin's oeuvre and shows around 40 important works with extensive documentation.

With speeches by
Florian Roth, City Councillor of the City of Munich on behalf of the Lord Mayor
Matthias Mühling, Director of the Lenbachhaus
Susanne Böller, curator of the exhibition