Odilon Redon's Synesthetic Art Explored at Kröller-Müller Museum

The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, presents 'Odilon Redon. La letteratura e la musica' (Literature and Music), a major exhibition curated by Cornelia Homburg. The show examines how Redon (1840–1916) translated synesthesia into painting, merging visual art with literature and music. Inspired by Classical Antiquity, Richard Wagner, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Baudelaire, Redon captured the anxiety of fin-de-siècle Europe and pioneered a psychological art focused on mood and atmosphere. His works evoke the irrational and mysterious, drawing on Gothic literature and Romantic music. Redon called himself a 'symphonic painter.' The exhibition includes loans from private collections and works from the museum's permanent collection.