From Kandinsky to Corneille
Linoleum in the art of the twentieth century
Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Amstelveen 1999/2000

Initiator and sponsor, Forbo Linoleum, celebrates its 100th anniversary with an Enterprise & Art organized exhibition dedicated to a relatively young print technology: the linocut.

For this exhibition are assembled over 180 linocuts and linoleum objects, providing a review of the history of this medium from the earliest experiments by German Expressionists to the most recent developments.

Linocuts are on show by artists including Kandinsky, Matisse, Picasso, Escher, Corneille, Baselitz; Kara Walker, Joris Geurts, and Klaas Gubbels.

Four young artists from four continents are commissioned by Forbo Linoleum to make two ‘Linoleum Art Prints’. Liesbeth Hemelrijk compiles the exhibition in close collaboration with the Cobra Museum, also preparing the catalogue.

The exhibition catalogue is still available in our webshop.

Markus Lüpertz (Germany, 1941)
Étude pour ‘Monument à Debussy’, 1983
Linocut and etching
40 x 28,5 cm
Collection Städtische Galerie
Bietigheim-Bissingen

Poster Kandinsky to Corneille Exhibition

Vanessa Jane Phaff
(the Netherlands 1965)
Sally can’t see, 1999
Linocut and acrylic paint on canvas, 220 x 160 cm
Collection Forbo Linoleum
This work is one of
four assignments given in
conjunction with the
exhibition