European Champions

English edition

This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bottom of football's mystique. And vice versa, since football with its aesthetics, dynamics, rites, and contradictions inspires artists and reveals innovative, surprising perspectives and artistic possibilities. This culminates in impressive interplay between the two worlds. Accessing 20
th
-century European art through football and deciphering the fascinating as well as contradictory game of football as a European phenomenon through the perspective of modernist painting uncovers new knowledge in both fields.

More than 100 works of art from national and international collections are examined. The catalogue is designed along the same conceptual lines as the European Championship itself: each nation participating in the EURO 2024 is represented by at least one artist, so underlining the fundamental concept of a diverse but united Europe.

A new standard work, and a cultural contribution to the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany

Exhibition: Deutsches Fußballmuseum, Dortmund, , May 27, 2024 to January 7, 2025

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Artists: Sybil Andre, Dieter Asmus, Willi Baumeister, Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, Peter Blake, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Ithell Colquhoun, Charles Cundall, Salvador Dalí, Giulio D'Anna, Raoul de Keyser, Nicolas de Staël, Alexander Deineka, Robert Delaunay, Brendan Ellis, George Eisler, Paul Feiler, Ludvig Find, Hubert Andrew Freeth, Fritz Genkinger, Harald Giersing, John Heartfield, Bernhard Heisig, Robert Henderson Blyth, Peter Howson, Hundertwasser, MiloS Jiránek, Ilja Kabakow, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Pyke Koch, Maria Lassnig, Karel Lek, Elizer Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Jarmo Mäkila, Kasimir Malewitsch, Colin Middleton, Joan Miró, Omer Mujadzic, Peter Nagel, FrantiSek Xaver Naske, Paul Nelson, Rainer Neumaier, Christopher Nevinson, Felix Nussbaum, Claes Oldenburg, Wolfgang Petrik, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Peter Rohn, Alexander Nikolajewitsch Samochwalow, Thorsten Schlüter, Valentin Sidorov, Jens Sondergaard, Warwara Fjodorowna Stepanowa, Ivan Tabakovic, Lawrence Tonybee, Bart van der Leck, Alan Welsford, Thomas Webster, Rik Wouters et al.