--- type: exposition title: Colossal language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/colossal" --- # Colossal ## Painting on a Grand Scale ![Karl Huck, Erwachen (Adler)](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/2023-06/Karl%20Huck_Erwachen%20%28Adler%29_1908_Foto_Belvedere_Wien_0.jpg.webp?itok=wAWuO85m) **Duration:** 22 June 2023 - 27 August 2023 It requires confidence, skill, imagination, and courage for an artist to tackle a huge canvas. The results are mostly major works of art: impressive, spectacular but rarely on display due to lack of space. Featuring formats of up to ten meters, this exhibition at the Lower Belvedere showcases colossal paintings from the museum’s collection ranging from the Baroque to the present. A dialogue between contemporary and historical art will reunite audiences with long-absent masterpieces, open up fresh perspectives on well-known artworks while at the same time promising exciting discoveries. The exhibition features monumental works by artists including Tina Blau, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hermann Nitsch, Max Oppenheimer and Hubert Scheibl. Fascinating pictorial worlds, sweeping gestures, romantic landscapes, and monochrome color fields will leave visitors enthralled. An entire room in the show is dedicated to Hans Makart and his opulent history paintings. Curated by Johanna Hofer and Stella Rollig. ### [Lower Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/lower-belvedere) **Opening hours:** Monday to Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm **Address:** Lower Belvedere, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=3) ##### In cooperation with - [Die Presse](https://www.diepresse.com/) - [Parnass](https://www.parnass.at/) ## Impressions - ![Maximilian Oppenheimer, Die Philharmoniker — Max Oppenheimer, The Philharmonic, 1926-1952 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, Belvedere, Vienna — Artothek des Bundes, on permanent loan to the Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-12/Lg813.jpg.webp?itok=B_54udYT) - ![Lorenz Adolf Schönberger, Der Meerbusen von Baiae bei Sonnenuntergang — Lorenz Adolf Schönberger, The Gulf of Baiae at Sunset, 1807 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-06/7784%20RGB_0.jpg.webp?itok=-7rDSbCe) - ![Karl Huck, Erwachen (Adler) — Karl Huck, Awakening (Eagles), 1908 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-06/Karl%20Huck_Erwachen%20%28Adler%29_1908_Foto_Belvedere_Wien_0.jpg.webp?itok=eyN46IE0) - ![Ekstase des heiligen Franziskus — Unknown Artist, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, c. 1700 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-12/8154.jpg.webp?itok=v9-1UENM) ## Videos **Colossal. Painting on a Grand Scale (Part 1)** **Colossal. Painting on a Grand Scale (Part 2)** **Colossal. Painting on a Grand Scale (Part 3)** **Colossal. Painting on a Grand Scale (Part 4)**