This comprehensive special exhibition is devoted to the motif of flowers in modern art, from Impression-ism to the present day. Paintings by classical "painter's painters" such as Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Emil Nolde, Max Ernst, but also David Hockney - and the still more recent approach represented by the Brazilian Beatriz Milhazes - will be contrasted to works by artists from the latter half of the twentieth century and the present day who have experimented with new media, including Andy Warhol, Pipilotti Rist and Jeff Koons. Another key focus will be on photography, superbly represent-ed by masters from the entire past century, including Irving Penn and Robert Mapplethorpe. As the exhibition will show, flowers are no relic of the past for modern artists but a central motif. Yet not only the lovely, appealing nature of flowers will be represented but their darker sides as well, aspects that since Baudelaire have been especially characteristic of modernism. Behind the flowers of good always lurk Les Fleurs du Mal.