Modern Couples
Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
Explore modern art and modern love; with our series of long reads and interview.
Long read
Meet the Couples: Emilie Flöge & Gustav Klimt
We look at the relationship between Klimt and Flöge and see how, in a process of co-creation, they became standard-bearers of the new liberated man and woman, the alternative king and queen of fashionable Vienna Secession
Long read
Meet the Couples: Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin
Inspiring some of his most passionate work, we look at the relationship between French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel and her role in shaping his legacy and announced a new kind of creative exchange within an artistic relationship.
Long read
Meet the Couples: Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp
We discover more about the artists in our 'Modern Couples' exhibition - artists Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp and their creative relationship that lasted almost three decades..
Video
Curator Jane Alison & Katy Hessel (The Great Women Artists) on Modern Couples
Curator Jane Alison and Katy Hessel (from The Great Women Artists) discuss some of creative and romantic couples featured in our exhibition 'Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde'.
