Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, K-e Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe-s north and German lands via paintings, prints and in other artistic media to imagine a new -Gothic modernity-, unlocking a different energy of modern art and creative experiment beyond nation-centric stories. Gothic Modern sheds light on the profound importance of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch; K-e Kollwitz and their contemporaries. It explores their re-imagining of Gothic art between 1870s and 1920s to create new visions of the artist, -belonging-, modern society, sexuality, spirituality and identity. In these ways, a distant Gothic age is recreated as tantalizing close to -modernity-, in short, to making modern art. Dark or radiant, enchanted or uncanny, these sites of -Gothic modernity- inspired Munch-s and Kollwitz-s generation with urgent imaginaries for creating worlds.
