With RENDEZVOUS DER TRÄUME , the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting a comprehensive exhibition on international Surrealism to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of this movement, tracing German Romanticism as one of Surrealism's most important kindred spirits. Starting with a pair of paintings from the Kunsthalle that are being shown for the first time, over 230 Surrealist icons by great and newly discovered Surrealists such as Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte, André Masson, Salvador Dalí, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Klee, Valentine Hugo, Victor Brauner, Toyen and many others are juxtaposed with over 70 masterpieces of German Romanticism, including works by Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge, as well as Romantic poetry in new contexts and exciting juxtapositions.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is organizing the show for the first time in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Paris, and is able to present over 30 exceptional top loans from the latter. In its entirety, the comprehensive exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience world-famous works, some of which have never been presented before, from over 80 international, private and public collections from the USA, Mexico and all over Europe.