On the occasion of her 100th birthday: first museum overview in Germany

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Hungarian-French artist Judit Reigl (1923 - 2020), the New National Gallery in Berlin will be the first German museum to present a comprehensive overview of the painter's oeuvre in Centers of Dominance. The occasion is also marked by three major donations: With the paintings Center of Dominance (1959), Mass Writing (1960), and the large-scale triptych Man (1967-1969), the Fonds de Dotation Judit Reigl has donated important major works to the Berlin Kunsthaus, thus expanding the first public German collection with works by Reigl.

In addition to the donations, the exhibition also shows relevant works from the 1950s to the 1980s, giving the German public its first insight into the multifaceted oeuvre of the artist, who in the 1950s was closely associated with the French Informel. Visitors will have this opportunity until October 8.

Born in 1923 in Kapuvár, Hungary, Reigl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and fled to Paris in 1950 to escape Stalinism. Initially pursuing a surrealist style, she soon turned to lyrical abstraction in the early 1950s. Here and there, she deviated from the abstract pattern and went through figurative moments: In her series Man from the 1960s, for example, she played with male torsos on the canvas.