Neue Galerie New York opened Van Gogh and Expressionism, an exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh's impact on German and Austrian Expressionism. Organized by Jill Lloyd with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, it brought together more than eighty paintings and drawings, including major Van Gogh canvases and works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, Vasily Kandinsky, and others. The show argued that Expressionists saw Van Gogh not only as a model of color, brushwork, and structure, but as a precedent for emotional intensity and spiritual urgency. Neue Galerie presented it as the first exhibition to examine that influence in detail, aligning Van Gogh's posthumous reception with the museum's core collection of Austrian and German modernism.
The exhibition sharpened public understanding of Van Gogh as a catalyst for Expressionist modernism.
