Exhibition 'Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence – African American Modernist' in Kunsthal KAdE
In the fall of 2025, Kunsthal KAdE will present the first ever retrospective exhibition in Europe of the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Lawrence broke through in 1941 with his iconic series of paintings entitled ‘The Great Migration’, a series consisting of 60 panels, half of which hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and half in the Phillips Collection in Washington. In this series, he tells the story of the mass migration of the black population from the southern United States to the north. Throughout his oeuvre, Jacob Lawrence focused on African-American history. Jacob Lawrence developed his own autonomous painting style in the aftermath of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered one of the most important African-American painters of the 20th century.
