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While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
This is the first major exhibition for 30 years devoted to Cincinnati’s favourite artistic son. Born in Covington in 1848, Frank Duveneck moved to Munich for his studies in the 1860s. He remained in Europe until 1888, and among the 125 works on show here are his Impressionist-influenced Bavarian landscapes and Venetian harbour scenes. After returning to the US, he taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he became director of faculty in 1905. He was renowned for the panache of his society portraits and above all for his genre paintings of street children – ruddy-faced cobbler’s boys and street urchins, catching the viewer’s eye as they nonchalantly whistle or smoke. The exhibition, which also includes the artist’s lithographs and drawi
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In 1838, The Ohio Mechanics Institute sponsored the first exposition held in the United States. Interrupted by the Civil War, expositions resumed in 1869 in Saengerhalle, constructed by a local choral organization.
By 1872, Saengerhalle had been enlarged and was renamed Exposition Hall, and the exposition boasted an attendance of 500,00. A year later, Exposition Hall also hosted a May Musical Festival.
By 1875, the exposition had outgrown Cincinnati’s exposition building, and a local businessman and music lover made the controversial suggestion that the building be replaced by a music hall. In 1878, the music hall was completed. The hall consisted of a simple performance hall with an elevated stage (with a grand organ for a newly-formed Organ Society) and wings designed for industrial expositions. The same year, the College of Music (now Cincinnati Conservatory) opened in the hall.