Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus shows unique art collection

The largest art collection of GDR artists is located in Brazil. Its owner is Chagas Freitas, who worked as cultural attaché in the Brazilian embassy in East Berlin in the 1980s. Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus will provide insights into this little-known collection from December 18, 2021.

December 17, 2021
Between Photorealism and Abstraction

The Italian Michela Ghisetti works mainly as a painter and addresses issues of integration, diversity and the representation of women in society. The ALBERTINA Museum Vienna will open Michela Ghisetti: Tutto, the first major retrospective of the Vienna-based artist's work, on December 17, 2021.

December 16, 2021
Reutlingen Art Museum: Retrospective for the 50th anniversary of Masereel's death

»There is no more beautiful color than black«. This sentence could not describe more aptly the woodcuts and linocuts, the etchings and drawings of the Belgian artist Frans Masereel. It is no surprise that the Reutlingen Art Museum chose it as the title for a comprehensive retrospective of Masereel's work, which will be presented starting December 16. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of the artist's death on January 3, 2022.

December 16, 2021
Mustafa Özel

It takes courage to have your portrait painted by Mustafa Özel. Courage to know yourself. The real, true, warts-and-all you. An x-ray of your soul. More honest a reflection than that of any mirror could ever be. And so while Özel’s oil paintings may be somewhat of a risky affair for his subjects, for the art world they are an absolute gift. Portraits of rarely seen depth and intensity. Viennese Modernism in 21st Century Istanbul.

by Felix Brosius, December 15, 2021
International and Regional Art around 1900

The city of Rosenheim underwent major changes around 1900 due to its proximity to Vienna and Munich, two art centers of Art Nouveau. New buildings changed the cityscape and a new public art collection presented contemporary works of art. In the exhibition La Belle Époque. The Magic of Art Nouveau, starting December 16, 2021, the development of this epoch with works by regional and international artists.

December 15, 2021
Vienna, Museum für angewandte Kunst - Retrospective of Josef Hoffmann's work

For Josef Hoffmann, utility and aesthetics always went hand in hand. The architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer left behind an immense life's work, which the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna now wants to do justice to with the most comprehensive retrospective to date, starting December 15.

December 14, 2021
»From Goya to Manet« in Munich

The building of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich has already been under renovation since 2019. In order to keep the paintings visible, the Alte Pinakothek opened the exhibition »From Goya to Manet« at that time. This will now continue from December 14, following two months of recent construction work at the Alte Pinakothek as well.

December 13, 2021
Edward Hopper with Jan Vermeer in Dresden

Edward Hopper's paintings, like those of Jan Vermeer, are not only known to art connoisseurs. On the occasion of the sensational restoration of Vermeer's Letter-Reading Girl at an Open Window, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister will combine the Hopper exhibition with the Vermeer exhibition not as planned from December 13, 2021, but from January 9, 2022.

December 12, 2021
350 years of art in the Flehite Museum

Museum Flehite in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, is devoting itself to a special exhibition starting December 12, 2021: paintings by Matthias Withoos and his children from the 17th century meet contemporary photographs by his descendant Hans Withoos in »A Different Light on Withoos«.

December 12, 2021
Exhibition series at the Museumsquartier Osnabrück

Beirut-born Mounira Al Solh addresses vulnerability, hopes and pain in self-portraits. In the Felix Nussbaum House of the Museumsquartier, starting December 11, 2021, she will enter into a dialogue with the works of Felix Nussbaum, who was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944.

December 11, 2021

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