Darmstadt

Die Plakatkunst der Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Die Ausstellung Bereits im frühen 20. Jahrhundert galten Plakate als „Kunst der Straße“, wurden von Museen und Privatpersonen gesammelt sowie in Ausstellungen und Publikationen gewürdigt. In ihrem Wunsch, alle Lebensbereiche künstlerisch zu gestalten, haben sich auch zahlreiche Mitglieder der Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt (1899-1914) der Vermittlung ihrer Ideen im öffentlichen Raum gewidmet. Sie schufen hierbei – als bedeutsamen Bestandteil des Gesamtkunstwerks Mathildenhöhe – herausragende Plakate, die heute zu den Ikonen der Werbekunst zählen. Der Katalog Zur Ausstellung erscheint die Publikation „Die Plakatkunst der Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt“, herausgegeben von Ralf Beil, mit einem Vorwort von Ralf Beil, historischen Quellentexten sowie einem Essay von Philipp Gutbrod, 48 Seiten, 33 Abbildungen, Broschur, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, 2012, € 5,-

Wien

Die Textilmustersammlung Emilie Flöge im Österreichischen Museum für Volkskunde
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Katalog zur Ausstellung: Die Textilmustersammlung Emilie Flöge. Zur umfangreichen Textil- und Bekleidungssammlung des Österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde zählen rund 350 Objekte aus dem Nachlass von Emilie Flöge, der Lebenspartnerin und Muse Gustav Klimts. Ein großer Teil der Sammlung wird nun im Rahmen des Klimt-Jahres erstmals im Volkskundemuseum präsentiert. Ganz dem Zeitgeschmack der Jahrhundertwende entsprechend, sammelte Emilie Flöge Beispiele textiler „Volkskunst“ vorwiegend aus Zentraleuropa, die sie als Inspirationsquelle und Muster im Modesalon „Schwestern Flöge“ in den Vitrinen des Empfangszimmers präsentierte. Außerdem sind in der Sonderausstellung Jugendstil-Exponate zu sehen, die vermutlich von Emilie Flöge selbst entworfen oder von ihr verwendet wurden. 83 seiten, zahlr. Farbab. € 23,-

Bruxelles

Edgard Maxence 1871-1954 les dernières fleurs du symbolisme
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Catalogue de l'exposition du même nom (21 mai - 19 septembre 2010 au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes).

Washington

Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute
Dates:19/05/2013-28/07/2013
This 150th birthday tribute to Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norway’s most famed painter and printmaker, includes more than 20 renowned works from the Gallery’s collection, such as Geschrei (The Scream) (1895), The Madonna (1895, printed 1912/1913), and a unique series of six variant impressions, Two Women on the Shore (1898, printed 1906–c. 1917 or later). Munch is today revered for his passionate visual expression of intense human experiences. “Art is your heart’s blood,” he said. His most famous image—a screaming figure, its eyes wide with horror—is an icon of anxiety, alienation, and anguish. Attraction, love, jealousy, and death were also recurring themes. In addition to these dramatic subjects, Munch made many telling portraits, tender visions of women, as well as sensitive studies of lovers, children, and adolescents. However, the real power of his art lies less in his biography than in his ability to extrapolate universal human experiences from his own life. In recent decades the National Gallery of Art has presented three major exhibitions of Munch’s work, the last in 2010.

Arles

Emile André, Art nouveau et modernités
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
« Emile André, art nouveau et modernités » a pour ambition de remettre au jour la vie et l’œuvre de l’un des artistes majeurs de l’Ecole de Nancy. Au-delà de la contribution décisive de l’architecte au mouvement de l’art nouveau, l’ouvrage retrace également son implication dans la reconstruction des villages lorrains après la Première Guerre mondiale ; l’analyse de ses projets multiples témoigne alors de son adhésion aux principes de construction en série et à l’émergence du régionalisme. De l’aube d’un siècle naissant jusqu’à ses bouleversements, le cheminement de la carrière d’Emile André dessine les contours d’une personnalité attachante, sensible aux évolutions de son temps et interrogeant sans cesse son métier d’architecte. L’ouvrage « Emile André, architecte à Nancy » donne à voir de documents d’une grande richesse, pour la plupart inédits : plans, croquis, dessins… mais aussi de magnifiques archives photographiques et carnets réalisés lors de ses nombreux voyages. Plus d'informations: www.editions-honoreclair.fr/

Bruxelles

Émile Gallé : l'amour de l'art - Les écrits artistiques du maître de l’Art nouveau
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Emile Galle is - if not the master of Art Nouveau - at least one of its major artists. After decades of neglect, his works are now widely recognized and his artistic ideas were recorded by him in numerous writings (articles, letters, forewords, records show ...). In 1908, four years after his death, his widow wrote a first selection of his texts under the title "Writing for Art" (reprinted in this volume). In The Art of Love, François Le Tacon has assembled all Gallé's writings related to art, supplemented by descriptions of important masterpieces by Gallé himself (Table Flore de Lorraine, Way to Fall, Field of Blood, for example) and the description of many pieces held by exceptional collectors as Robert de Montesquiou. All these texts and descriptions are illustrated with color reproductions of works by Gallé (works, drawings, sketches ...). The publication of Gallé's texts gathered under the title "L'Amour de l'Art", is organized around six thematic sections : Considerations on Art, Art and Industry, The School of Nancy, Ceramics, Glass, Wood. Edition established and annotated by François Le Tacon. 2010. Format 20 x 26 cm. 360 pages in color, with approximately 100 reproductions of works. Hardback bound, color coated with dust jacket. Price: 35 euros.

Bruxelles

Emilé Gallé. Nature & symbolisme, "Influence du Japon"
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Catalogue de l'exposition au Musée départemental Georges-de-la-Tour de Vic-sur-Seille, du 5 mai au 30 août 2009.

 

Ernst Haeckel Inspired by Nature - ebook
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Ernst Haeckel was a doctor, marine zoologist, botanist, photographer, and an artist. He was well respected but controversial because of his beliefs in evolution. According to Edward Thomas Browne of the Linnean Society, Haeckel is responsible for many common zoology terms such as: Ontogeny, Phylum, Protozoa, Protista, Metazoa, Plankton, Coelom, and Gastrula. [...]he was a prodigious and vigorous worker. Students flocked to his classrooms at Jena, and his courses of semi-popular lectures on Evolution were fully attended by all sorts and conditions of people, from far and near. In the prime of life he was a fine, handsome man, with a strong but charming personality, fearless in expressing his Evolutionary views, which were by no means favourably received by the multitude, and attempts were even made to eject him from his Chair of Zoology. This publication includes biographical information from many sources along with 35 Plates that illustrate Radiolaria from his 1862 publication, Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda radiaria) eine Monographie, a few from Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 and ten plates from from Kunstformen der Natur. Creating Something Grand from Something Microscopic In addition to his works, you will also find highlighted a work by Rene Binet, the entrance of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Binet modeled the entrance after the Clathrocanium reginae. When you consider that microscopic sea fauna inspired a structure that used about 192 tonnes of metal and cost about 676,000 French fr., it certainly is worth viewing these illustration to see how they might be of inspiration to you. Radiolaria are silica secreting zooplankton. Their size can range from about 100 micrometers to what is considered a very large size of 1-2 mm. The weight gained during maturation of a single Radiolarian is 0.1 micrograms. The dimensions of the Clathrocanium reginae are, in millimeters: cephalis 0.03 long and 0.04 wide with a thorax that measures 0.08 long and 0.12 wide. An image is included in the upcoming pages.