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Albertina Museum opens its largest-ever survey of the history of landscape painting Paul Klee, Country House near Fribourg, 1915. Watercolors and gold paint. The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Forberg Collection. VIENNA .- Surveying the past five centuries of landscape painting enables us to quite literally see how human identity has been transformed. Our own visual experience of these perspectives lets us perceive and feel the changes in human beings self-concept from generation to generation. Those who portray nature also end up revealing themselves in equal measure, which makes for a fasc...
In the 19th article in a series on 20th-century artists who shaped Maltese modernism, Joseph Agius delves into the life and times of Frans Galea Sculptor Frans Galea (1945-1994) belongs to an elite group of Maltese sculptors that Malta lost at a relatively young age. Banda (1977) Edward Pirotta (1939-1968), Joseph M. Genuis (1934-1970) and Toni Pace (1930-1989) and Galea have all contributed considerably to the modernist development of Maltese 20th-century sculpture. Yet, their untimely demise has deprived Maltese art history of oeuvres that would have much further enhanced the country’s ...
Museo Nacional Thyssen‐Bornemisza features German Expressionist paintings George Grosz, Metrópolis, 1916-1917 (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 102 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid MADRID .- When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen‐Bornemisza acquired Young Couple by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen familys collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between the 1960s and 1990s Hans Heinrich would be extremely active as a collector of the principal 20th‐...
None Swiss cultural life shows strands of German, Italian, and French influence, among others, but its uniqueness is particularly apparent in its art and artists and its museums and other art venues. Here are just seven paintings from that milieu. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Interior of St. Bavo in Haarlem (1636) The Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) signaled the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and saw Catholic churches across Eur...