VISIONS

The first big Mucha exhibition in Vienna

Egon Schiele, rétrospective

22 January 2010–6 June 2010

Anton Romako (1832-1889)

25 May 2010–26 September 2010

Hans Makart (1840-1884)

15 October 2010–16 January 2011

Namur, Musée provincial Félicien Rops

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BELGIUM

Decadence, Bohemian Lands, 1880-1914

30 January 2009–10 May 2009

Steinlen, l'oeil de la rue

12 March 2009–31 May 2009

Ixelles, Musée

Goya, Redon, Ensor. Peintures et dessins grotesques

14 March 2009–14 June 2009

Anvers, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten

Alfred Stevens

8 May 2009–23 August 2009

Bruxelles, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts

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CANADA

Au-delà des horizons : peinture et photographie. Les paysages américains et canadiens 1860-1918

18 June 2009–27 September 2009

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Tiffany

10 February 2010–2 May 2010

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Waterhouse. Le préraphaélite moderne

1 October 2009–7 February 2010

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

La nature dessine son propre portrait. Photographies françaises du XIXe siècle

9 October 2009–10 January 2010

Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada

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Denmark

French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

31 January 2009–7 June 2009

Copenhagen, Arken Museum for Modern Art

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ENGLAND

‘Je l'ai transformé en un palais.’ Sir Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum

4 November 2008–17 March 2009

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary. This exhibition brings together more than 65 paintings, drawings and sculpture by the important Victorian artist

11 November 2008–26 April 2009

Guildhall Gallery, London

French Impressionists

20 February 2009–31 May 2009

Liverpool, Lady Lever Art Gallery

Sickert in Venice

4 March–31 May 2009

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Formes sans fin : Charles Darwin, les sciences naturelles et les arts visuels

16 June 2009–4 October 2009

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Art and Labour’s Cause is One: Walter Crane and Manchester 1880-1915

Until 30 September 2009

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

3rd October 2009–17th January 2010

London, Victoria & Albert Museum

J. W. Waterhouse (1849-1917). The modern Pre-Raphaelite

23 June 2009–13 September 2009

London, Royal Academy of Art

From Corot to Monet

8 July 2009–20 September 2009

London, National Gallery

Æstheticism : Beauty in Art and Design

April 2011–July 2011

London, Victoria & Albert Museum

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FRANCE

Atget et Sceaux, entre rêve et réalité

6 October 2008–6 April 2009

Sceaux, Musée de l'Ile-de-France

Luc-Olivier Merson

9 December 2008–8 March 2009

Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Saint-Pol-Roux et son temps

16 December 2008–15 March 2009

Brest, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Emma Herland (1856-1947). Femme artiste en Bretagne

31 January 2009–1 June 2009

Pont-Aven, Musée Municipal

Sculpteurs avallonnais : Georges Loiseau-Bailly (1858-1913)

6 February 2009–31 December 2009

Avallon, Musée de l'Avallonnais

De Corot à l'art moderne

20 February 2009–24 May 2009

Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

27 February 2009–31 May 2009

Montpellier, Musée Fabre

Paul Gauguin. La Vision du sermon

6 March 2009–1 June 2009

Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Dessins de Jean-Léon Gérôme

6 March 2009–8 June 2009

Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Valadon–Utrillo

6 March 2009–15 September 2009

Paris, Pinacothèque

Maurice Denis, enfances

13 March 2009–7 June 2009

Rodez, Musée Denys-Puech

Les fauves hongrois (1904-1914) : la leçon de Matisse

13 March 2009–15 June 2009

Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Henri Martin (1860-1943). Du rêve au quotidien

14 March 2009–15 June 2009

Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse

Jean Després et le bijou Art déco

19 March 2009–31 May 2009

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, chroniqueur d'une fin de siècle

27 March 2009–29 June 2009

Saint-Denis, Musée d'art et d'histoire

Henri Rivière. Entre impressionnisme et japonisme

7 April 2009–5 July 2009

Paris, Bnf

Ernest Hébert. Italiennes modèles

7 April 2009–19 July 2009

Giverny, Musée d'Art Américain

La fabrique du portrait, Rodin face à ses modèles

10 April 2009–23 August 2009

Paris, Musée Rodin

L'art du carnet de voyage de 1800 à nos jours

20 April 2009–12 September 2009

Paris, Musée de la Poste

Le jardin de Monet à Giverny : l'invention d'un paysage

1 May 2009–15 August 2009

Emile Gallé : nature et symbolisme, influences du Japon

5 May 2009–30 August 2009

Vic-sur-Seille, Musée départemental Georges de La Tour

Elégance et modernité

5 May 2009–26 July 2009

Paris, Galerie des Gobelins

Gustave Eiffel, le magicien du futur

6 May 2009–31 August 2009

Paris, Hôtel de ville

Jules Chéret (1836-1932)

28 May 2009–6 September 2009

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) et la Bretagne. La leçon de Pont-Aven

6 June 2009–5 October 2009

Pont-Aven, Musée Municipal

Rodin et les arts décoratifs

13 June 2009–20 September 2009

Evian, Palais Lumière

Alfons Maria Mucha (1860-1939)

20 June 2009–20 September 2009

Montpellier, Musée Fabre

Georges Rouault : Paysages

4 July 2009–12 October 2009

Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade

Diaghilev et les Ballets russes

9 July 2009–20 September 2009

Monaco, Musée national

Renoir au XXe siècle

23 September 2009–4 January 2010

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Claude Monet

Mid-October 2010–mid-January 2011

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Dessins d'Eugène Grasset (1845-1917)

Autumn 2009

Pont-Aven, Musée Municipal

Maurice Chabas (1862-1947)

10 October 2009–3 January 2010

James Ensor

20 October 2009–4 February 2010

Jean-Léon Gérôme

18 October 2010–23 January 2011

Henri Labrouste (1801-1875)

Winter 2010

Au temps de la Damoiselle élue. Claude Debussy, musique, peinture, poésie

Spring 2011

Vers le cinéma 1850-1925

2012

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)

2012

Ludwig II of Bavaria

2012

Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Dessins espagnols du Siècle d'Or

Spring 2010

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GERMANY

Interior/Exterior: Living Spaces in the Arts: From Romantic Interior Painting to the Home Design of the Future

29 November 2008–13 April 2009

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

This large-scale, thematic exhibition explores the dynamic interplay between interior painting and design, spanning from Romanticism to the modernist living concepts of the Bauhaus to home design of the future. The exhibition will present paintings, sculptures and installations as well as reconstructed interiors, historical and contemporary furniture, photographs, video works and digital animations by roughly 70 distinguished artists and designers, including Caspar David Friedrich, Henry van de Velde, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Hamilton, Zaha Hadid, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Thomas Demand and Andrea Zittel. Interior/Exterior charts the history of a gradual convergence of art and design that has ultimately led to a relationship of reciprocal influence between the disciplines: designers are increasingly employing artistic methods and principles (Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Zaha Hadid), while artists have begun to produce usable objects and environments (Donald Judd, Tobias Rehberger). Interior/Exterior represents a further milestone in the project series ‘The pursuit of modernism in the 21st century’.

The exhibition opens with a landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich from around 1800 that represents modern man’s desire to make himself at home in the ‘infinite interior of the cosmos’. Transporting the core element of this vision into the 21st century, the display culminates with the fully glazed oval house ‘R129’ designed by the German engineer and architect Werner Sobek. Between these two works marking the beginning and the end of the exhibition, visitors are taken chapter by chapter on a journey through the 20th century: A dark suite of rooms featuring outstanding painted interiors from around 1900 (Edvard Munch, Felix Vallotton, Vilhelm Hammershøi) framed by genuine interior design ensembles of Art Nouveau and Viennese modernism (Henry van de Velde, Josef Hoffmann) takes us into the hidden recesses of the modern soul. Piet Mondrian’s 1:1 reconstruction of his Parisian studio opens the door to the revolution of modern living and its light-filled spaces: the clear lines and classic elegance of the modern style developed by Eileen Gray and the Bauhaus masters. The pop and kidney-table-aesthetic of the 1950s/60s seems to lead back to the cosy domestic interior of brightly coloured decor: a particular highlight of the exhibition is the walk-through, cave-like environment ‘Visiona 2’ (1970) by the Danish designer Verner Panton. Besides the desire for transparency, light and spaciousness, the ensemble documents another major trend in home decor: cocooning. At the same time, Minimal Art (Donald Judd) of the 1960s also exerted a strong influence: it coined the post-industrial housing form of the loft as a style of living that has carried the clear formal vocabulary of the Bauhaus into the 21st century. In the 1990s, a young generation of artists ‘colonised’ the neutral, white museum space with furniture-objects and environments and began to critically examine the promise of modernity. Installations that have been especially developed for this exhibition by contemporary artists (Alexandra Ranner, Tobias Rehberger and Florian Slotawa) are juxtaposed with projects by international designers and architects (Jasper Morrison, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec). (Text: Museum)

Darwin. Art and the Search for Origins

5 February 2009–3 May 2009

Frankfürt, Schirn Kunsthalle

Darwin everywhere in 2009! On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859) Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt presents an exhibition that focuses on the reception of Darwin’s book in the visual arts. It is a topos art historians talked about for years, but never has been presented in a big exhibition.

A first look taken during the overcrowded opening of the show showed a well done exhibition with a diversity of artists: American neoromantics like Frederic Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade, the Swiss Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, who had looked as a young man through the microscope, George Frederick Watts and a wide range of works by Max Ernst. Gabriel von Max, historical painter, theosophist and grower of a family of apes, consigned a scientific collection of 60,000-80,000 pieces. A cabinet is reconstructed in cooperation with Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, the owner. Definitely the highlight: Erich Haeckel’s ‘Kunstformen der Natur’.

Film on this exhibition (in German) see: http://www.artsite.tv/0906darwin.html

Edgar Degas. Intimacy and Pose

6 February 2009–3 May 2009

Kunsthalle Hamburg

73 posthumous cast-bronze: dancers, bathers, racehorses as well as ca. 100 of Degas’ s drawings, pastels and paintings.

Edouard Manet, gravures

27 February 2009–19 July 2009

Hambourg, Kunsthalle

Masques. De Carpeaux à Picasso

8 March 2009–7 June 2009

Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhoehe

Revealing while concealing, serving both religion and worldly pleasure, the mask goes back to the dawn of time. In the late 19th century, when the principles of Naturalism were being confronted, it saw a massive, inventive and somewhat disconcerting revival, benefiting from the interest at the time in ancient Greece, Japan and close-up photographic portraits.

All the arts contributed to the revival of the mask, from painting to avant-garde theatre. Some of the most creative artists of the time, throughout the whole of Europe — Ensor, Munch, Vallotton, Böcklin, Klinger, Gauguin and Picasso — added their names and their aesthetic to this strange fashion (English text: Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

This is a touring exhibition with stops in Paris (Musée d’Orsay 21.10.08-1.2.09) and Copenhagen (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Summer 2009). (Text: Museum)

The Moon

27 March 2009–16 August 2009

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

Amedeo Modigliani

17 April 2009–30 August 2009

Bonn, Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Emil Nolde. Homme, nature, mythe, aquarelles et dessins

3 July 2009–25 October 2009

Berlin, Kulturforum

Sir Frederic Leighton. Ein englischer Künstler und seine Villa in London

14 May 2009–13 September 2009

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

Vincent van Gogh : Les chaussures.

18 September 2009–10 January 2010

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

Claude Monet

11 October 2009–28 February 2010

Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum

Edward Burne-Jones. Le Paradis terrestre

24 October 2009–7 February 2010

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie

Georges Seurat

5 February 2010–9 May 2010

Francfort, Schirn Kunsthalle

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Hungary

Terre des Mythes. L'art de Gustave Moreau

19 February 2009–3 May 2009

Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Musée des Beaux-Arts)

L'éloge des femmes. L'art d'Alphonse Mucha

20 March 2009–7 June 2009

Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Musée des Beaux-Arts)

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ireland

Harry Clarke’s illustrations for the tales of Hans Christian Andersen

16 May 2009–23 August 2009

Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland

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ITALY

L'artiste voyageur de Gauguin à Klee, de Matisse à Ontani

22 February 2009–21 June 2009

Ravenna, Museo d'Arte

James Ensor : gravures

18 April 2009-28 July 2009

Legnano, Palazzo Leone da Perego

Boldini in Paris of the impressionists

20 September 2009–10 January 2010

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti

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Japan

Peintures et photographies : la route de l'Impressionnisme

6 June 2009–20 July 2009

Hiroshima, Musée d'Art

La peinture française du XIXe siècle : académisme et modernité

12 June 2009–31 August 2009

Yokohama, Museum of Art

Toulouse-Lautrec

13 February 2010–20 March 2010

Hiroshima, Musée d'Art

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THE NETHERLANDS

J. W. Waterhouse (1849-1917). Le préraphaélite moderne

14 December 2008–3 May 2009

Groningen, Groninger Museum

Un authentique Toorop !

20 December 2008–22 March 2009

Nijmegen, Museum Het Valkhof

D'Abildgaard à Hammershøi. Les dessins danois de la Fondation Custodia

9 January 2009–5 April 2009

Van Gogh et les couleurs de la nuit

13 February 2009–7 June 2009

La passion d'un businessman. La collection d'Andries Bonger

10 April 2009–20 September 2009

Alfred Stevens

18 September 2009–24 January 2010

Les lettres de Van Gogh

9 October 2009–3 January 2010