Eugene Grasset: A Passion for Design - ebook
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
This book is focused on Eugene Grasset who can be called The Father of Art Nouveau and who is also known to have had a great influence on Art Deco. Information about his work, life and and over 150 images are included in this book from http://www.ctgpublishing.com. Grasset was labeled by his contemporaries as a Universal Artist for several reasons. He understood a variety of materials, how each required a different approach and how each could be applied to the different branches of the decorative arts. Those who enjoy cubism may find themselves paying some tribute to Grasset’s geometric interpretations of nature. Grasset had many students including M.P. Verneuil, Mathurin Méheut, Augusto Giacometti, Paul Follot, and Paul Berthon. Louis Rhead has been quoted as owing his career to Grasset. Both Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier were influenced by Grasset, the later being credited as a founder of modern architecture.

Bruxelles

Façades art nouveau- les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles
Dates:01/01/2050-31/12/2099
Façades Art nouveau. Les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles. Bruxelles, 240 p. Préface de Maurice Culot. Contient des explications techniques sur la restauration des sgraffites, une bibliographie, un index...(more)

Kraków

Forever Young! Poland art and it's art around 1900
Dates:26/09/2012-29/09/2013
What makes it still attractive, interesting and liked despite the passage of time? Simply - eternally young? This question is asked by an exhibition presenting the best of around-1900 Polish Art in the renovated interiors of the Szołayski Tenement House - a Branch of the National Museum in Kraków, in the capital city of art at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. The National Museum in Kraków invites you to the great exhibition entitled Forever Young! Poland and its art around 1900, where we will display around 300 works: paintings, prints, sculptures and crafts selected mostly from the Museum's own collection. The title of the exhibition alludes to the unwaning popularity of the art of that era, despite the fact, that, as it may seem, everything has already been said about it. It was not an accident that the Szołayski Tenement House was chosen for the venue of the exhibition. It was there that Feliks "Mangghi" Jasieński's (Young Poland's art collector) collections were housed and until recently the Museum of the most distinguished artist of that time - Stanisław Wyspiański was located there. At the exhibition, in the first room, the Young Poland climate is evoked by the Green Balloon cabaret associated with personalities such as: Leon Schiller, Kazimierz Sichulski, Witold Wojtkiewicz, Adolf Nowaczyński and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. The irreverent and refreshing character of these nocturnal "happenings" is documented by drawings commenting on the Galician reality, prints from "Teka Melpomeny" with caricatures of Kraków actors in their most famous roles. In the adjacent room, we will see self-portraits of authors whose works are presented in the further part of the exhibition, including: Olga Boznańska, Julian Fałat, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański. The slogan important for modernism - the city myth - will be illustrated with images of the Market Square, the Planty Park, Kraków churches or the Wawel Castle, all filled with melancholy, suggestively materializingg in the painting Planty o świcie (Planty Park at dawn) by Stanisław Wyspiański. Another thread is devoted to the images of Young Poland's nature where the Galician artists sought refuge and inspiration when fatigued with their nocturnal Bohemian lifestyle. Apart from the famous impressionist paintings by Aleksander Gierymski, Władysław Podkowiński and Józef Pankiewicz, we will also present works by eminent Kraków artists – Stanisław Wyspiański, Leona Wyczółkowski, Jan Stanisławski. Expressive images showing the Tatra Mountains in pastel colours are certainly noteworthy. The theme of pristine nature will return again in the further part of the exhibition in the theme of rural folklore in the works by: Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Kazimierz Sichulski, Władysław Jarocki and Wacław Szymanowski. The atmosphere of a Young Poland study will be recalled by presenting cosy children's portraits and official portraits of various personalities, as well as nudes, including Czerwona wstążka (Red Ribbon) by Weiss borrowed from the National Museum in Poznań. Maeterlinck's quotation in the next room: „the smallest phenomenon, the smallest accident [...] are full of mysterious meaning” – reminds of the exploration of subconsciousness and the interest in the world of dreams, phantasies and religious mysticism which can be captured in the art of that time. Next to fauns from Jacek Malczewski's paintings, Wojciech Weiss's temptresses, works by Witold Wojtkiewicz, Franciszek Siedlecki, Wacław Szymanowski and others will also appear. Outside the study and the legendary Kraków cafés, the Bohemian social life focused in Young Poland's drawing rooms. Their climate will be reproduced in another room presenting, among other things, portraits by Teodor Axentowicz, Ignacy Pieńkowski, Jacek Malczewski, still natures by Olga Boznańska and Józef Pankiewicz. In the next rooms, on the other hand, we wish to remind of outstanding, not frequently displayed "fine and functional arts" - examples of works representing other disciplines which blossomed so impressively at the turn of the 19th century in spite of the difficult material and political conditions. They will include, among other things functional graphics, refined Young Poland prints, crafts inspired by folk art from the circels of the Polish Applied Art Society, the Technical and Industrial Museum in Kraków as well as Kraków Workshops and Young Poland posters which achieved full artistic independence and the European level at that time. Kurator: Krystyna Kulig-Janarek Coordinator: Bogusław Ruśnica Design: Teren Prywatny

Rimini (RN) Italia

Futurvucetich. Mirko Vucetich: Dal Futurismo al Novecento
Dates:31/08/2013-14/10/2013
The exibition FUTURVUCETICH is dedicated to the artist Mario Mirko Vucetich (Bologna 1898 – Vicenza 1975): one of the most versatile figures of 900. The exhibition organized by Archivio di Stato in Rimini is curated by Andrea Speziali, art historian, an expert on the artist and the Art Nouveau movement. It will be held in Rimini in the halls of the State, from June 28 to September 28 for the centennial anniversary of the Experimental Theatre of Independents in Rome founded by Anton Giulio Bragaglia along with Vucetich. The exhibition is part of the project'' Italian'' Liberty designed by the same curator. The intention of the State to organize this initiative which will see a program of other exposures, aims to promote the documents preserved in the Archives. Among the documents there is also a design by the architect Alessandro Vucetich, brother Mirko with the Lightning in Riccione villa designed in 1922 along with Tito and Achille Franceschi with whom he had a studio in Vittorio Veneto. Achilles later, in 1929 he opened The Shed in Forte dei Marmi. The studies and research conducted in recent years about the artist Mirko Vucetich (Bologna 1898 - Vicenza 1975) through its villas in Riccione, Bologna and America, collected in volumes of Andrea Speziali,, ''A Season of Liberty in Riccione'' (Maggioli 2010), and ''Romagna Liberty’’ (Maggioli 2012), involved the audience so much that in order to know the artist Vucetich the general public in addition to his most famous work: Chess Game in Marostica we realized a significant exhibition of this multifaceted character among the many activities director, actor, musician, designer, sculptor, decorator, architect, poet and illustrator. The exhibition is the right place in the charming frame of the State where we have compiled some projects such as the project architect Vucetich and photos of the cottage or villa Lightning Antolini in Riccione. There is organized an exhibition consisting of works of art including sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographic images. (info: www.italialiberty.it/mirkovucetich) The exhibition aims to promote the futurist period Mirko Vucetich through a series of ink and pastels accompanied by the Futurist Manifesto of the Futurist Movement Giuliano who founded together with Sophronius Pocarini in 1919.

Etterbeek

Gaudí: architecture of anticipation
Dates:22/04/2013-17/11/2013
"Gaudí: architecture of anticipation" organised by the Government of Catalonia, presents the art and the creative genius of the Catalan architect, who has obtained a wide international recognition. The exhibition explains, in a panoramic and instructive manner, the enormous task which has been led by Antoni Gaudí and the innovative methods used to conceive his projects.

Lausanne

Grasset: Pionnier de l'Art nouveau
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
Publié par la Bibliothèque des Arts.

Köln

Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings
Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999
The prince of decadence Looking at Klimt in a whole new light: a groundbreaking monograph The countless events being held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth make a clear statement to the enduring appreciation for the work of Gustav Klimt. Not that it takes such a special occasion for the press and the public to start talking about Klimt. More than two hundred articles about the artist appeared online in August 2011 alone, in comparison with barely seventy on Rembrandt within the same period. This media publicity set editor Tobias G. Natter thinking about the value of compiling the present book. During his lifetime, Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high; he stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized and divided the art-loving world. Journalists and general public alike were split over the question: For or against Klimt? The present publication therefore places particular emphasis upon the voices of Klimt’s contemporaries via a series of essays examining reactions to his work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt’s portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting in the second half of his life. The cliché that Gustav Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is vehemently dispelled: no less than 179 letters, cards, writings and other documents are included in this monograph. This wealth of archival material, assembled here for the first time on such a scale, represents a major contribution to Klimt scholarship. Defining features of this edition: Catalog of Klimt's complete paintings All known letter correspondence Featuring new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this book Contributing authors: Evelyn Benesch, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Rainald Franz, Anette Freytag, Christoph Grunenberg, Hansjörg Krug, Susanna Partsch, Angelina Pötschner and Michaela Reichel The editor and author: Tobias G. Natter studied art history and history at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna. He worked at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna for fifteen years. From 2001–2002 he was curator of the Neue Galerie in New York. From 2006 to 2011 he directed the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz and was responsible for the museum’s new premises and the reorganization of the collection. Since October 2011 he has been the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. His extensive publications and his conception and organization of exhibitions on the theme of “Vienna around 1900” have made him an internationally acknowledged expert on Viennese art at the turn of the century.