Gothic Modern exhibition at Albertina Museum
Contributed by Ilya Naumoff
on Jun 26th, 2026. Artwork published in
October 2025
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Visual identity for the Gothic Modern exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. The exhibition explores the relationship between medieval art and European modernism, highlighting how artists such as Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, and Käthe Kollwitz drew on Gothic stylistic and thematic elements and translated them into a modern visual language. An accompanying catalog was edited by Ralph Gleis and published by Hirmer in two language editions, English and German. The identity uses the Riegla and Riegraf typefaces.
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Banner with the key visual featuring Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, an early painting by Vincent van Gogh.
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Exbibition poster
2 Comments on “Gothic Modern exhibition at Albertina Museum”
Nice work.
If that smoking skeleton looks familiar and you haven’t been to the Van Gogh Museum, chances are you saw it on the cover of When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) by David Sedaris.
Another sighting of the smoking skeleton: