Automobiles

Status symbol, toy, symbol of mobility and independence - and you can even drive it: cars have become an essential part of our society, they no longer serve only as means of transportation but have become a true cultural asset.

As such, the car has had a firm place as a subject in art since its invention over 125 years ago.

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The Car in Art

World-renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Mel Ramos, Robert Longo, and Gerhard Richter have used their perspectives on the fascination of the car in a variety of forms in their works.

Whether it's a small car or a Formula 1 racing car - all possible stages in the life of a car are shown: sometimes polished and shiny or disassembled into individual parts, sometimes aesthetically staged in the landscape or the cityscape, sometimes driving at high speed, but also dented and scrapped.

In this way, a utilitarian object is critically presented to us in art, in which, as with hardly any other, culture and commerce are so closely intertwined.