Overview

• The Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz opens the “Angst” exhibition tomorrow as a centerpiece of Chemnitz’s European Capital of Culture program.
• Curators have assembled 140 works—including almost 100 by Munch and pieces by Andy Warhol, Neo Rauch and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff—to explore his motifs of anxiety and solitude.
• Munch’s painting “Zwei Menschen. Die Einsamen,” sold by the National Socialists in 1937, returns to Germany and Chemnitz for the first time in nearly 90 years.
• A lithographic version of Munch’s iconic “Scream” motif anchors the show’s examination of existential dread.
• Two paintings created during Munch’s 1905 stay—a portrait of Herbert Esche and the landscape “Blick aufs Chemnitztal”—highlight his historical ties to the city.