The Fine Arts and Crafts of the Fin-de-siècle

Associate Editors: Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Isa Bickmann, Nicola Gauld, Sarah Turner.

Summer 2008

EXHIBITIONS

This list could not have been assembled without using the Calendar of Exhibitions published in La Tribune de l’Art.

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AUSTRALIA

>Degas

12th December 2008–22nd March 2009

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia

AUSTRIA

Van Gogh, images dessinées	5th September–7th December 2008	Vienna, Albertina
Art nouveau (Jugendstil), ateliers viennois	11th July–31st December 2008	Vienna, Leopold Museum
Gustav Klimt et l'exposition de 1908	1st October 2008–18th January 2009	Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Alphonse Mucha	29th January–1st June 2009	Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Egon Schiele, rétrospective	22nd January–6th June 2010	Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Anton Romako (1832-1889)	25th May–26th September 2010	Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Hans Makart (1840-1884)	15th October–16th January 2011	Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere

BELGIUM

Alexandre Charpentier. Naturalisme et Art Nouveau

8th May–31st August 2008

Ixelles, Musée

Constantin Meunier à Séville

19th September 2008–4th January 2009

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts

Goya, Redon, Ensor. Peintures et dessins grotesques

14th March–14th June 2009

Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten

CANADA

Waterhouse. Le préraphaélite moderne

1st October 2009–7th February 2010

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Tiffany

10th February–2nd May 2010

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

‘À partir d’aujourd’hui la peinture est morte.’ L’humour et l’invention de la photographie

28th March–13rd July 2008

Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada

ENGLAND

Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891-1910

National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing, Trafalgar Square, London

18th June – 7th September, 2008

An intriguing exhibition of artists who turned their back on the idea of Art for Arts Sake and instead produced art ‘for humanity’s sake’ (artist Giuseppe Pellizza). It offers a fascinating counterpoint to Symbolist and Art Nouveau painters.

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence

Royal Academy, Sackler Wing, Burlington House, 50-52 Piccadilly, London

An enigmatic Danish artist (1864–1916) whose work is the antithesis of that of Edvard Munch. The paintings are of a quiet, reflective nature. His uninhabited spaces often create a mysterious mood, helped by a very limited palette and a sensitive use of light. Hammershøi reveals another facet of the marvel of Nordic talent at the turn of the century and beyond.

The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting

Tate Britain, Millbank, London

4th June–August 2008

A lavish exhibition of over 120 paintings, prints and drawings which explores the response of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930. It gives interesting perspectives on the historical and cultural views of the time and it raises the question as to how the ‘Orient’ was defined and redefined. There are several rarely seen paintings by John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear and William Holman Hunt.

Among the works temporarily on view at Tate Britain is the marvellous The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon painted by Edward Burne-Jones between 1881-98. It forms part of the BP Display and is on loan from the Art Museum of Ponce in Puerto Rico, where it has been since 1963. The painting recalls the nostalgic potency of the Arthurian legend in the nineteenth century. S.B-L.

Gustav Klimt

Tate Gallery, Liverpool

30th May–31st August 2008

This is the first substantial of Klimt’s work in Britain. Yet he is one of the most popular twentieth century artists. His art is fascinating in that it looks backwards and forwards in his mixture of modernism and symbolism. At the same time even the most prosaic of categories, portraiture, is interpreted in an exotic, unsettling and sexy way. Some of the spectacular paintings such as The Kiss or other Austrian highlights are not in this show because of the doubtful provenance of several of Klimt’s paintings in Austrian collections. But Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool and co-curator of the show takes the opportunity to stress the usually underemphasized associations between Klimt and the British – especially the Scottish – arts and crafts movement. This exhibition is a must see show! S.B-L.

The Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester

The Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester will open a new display on 16th August 2008 entitled “‘Art and Labour’s Cause is One:” Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1915.’ Crane was one of the most important, versatile, and radical artists of the nineteenth century, and this exhibition explores the central role played by Manchester in Crane’s fusion of art, labour, and politics.

ALSO

The Cézannes at the Courtauld

26th June–5th October 2008

London, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery

Sisley in England and Wales

12th November 2008–15th February 2009

London, National Gallery

Diaghilev et les ballets Russes

3rd October 2009–17th January 2010

London, Victoria & Albert Museum

FRANCE

Eugène Buland (1852-1926). Aux limites du réalisme

7th June 2008–6th October 2008

Charleville-Mézières, Musée de l'Ardenne

Eugène Buland 1852-1926. Aux limites du réalisme

30th October 2008–1st February 2009

Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Alexandre Cabanel

2009

Montpellier, Musée Fabre

Jules Chéret. L'Esprit et la grâce.

14th June 2008–21th September 2008

Evian, Palais Lumière

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

15th April 2008–20th July 2008

Paris, Musée Rodin

Lovis Corinth

1st April 2008–22nd June 2008

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Gustave Courbet

13th June 2008–28th September 2008

Montpellier, Musée Fabre

Mariano Fortuny (dessins)

29th June 2008–26th October 2008

Castres, Musée Goya

Charles Fréchon (1856-1929)

13th June 2008–7th September 2008

Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

‘C'est le Louvre chez soi’ Joseph Le Guluche (1849-1915) et les terres cuites de L'Isle Adam

6th April 2008–21st September 2008

L'Isle-Adam, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Louis Senlecq

Albert Marquet (1875-1947). Itinéraires maritimes

15th October 2008–2nd February 2009

Paris, Musée de la Marine

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

7th June 2008–6th October 2008

Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Musée départemental Rignault

(voir aussi Cahors)

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

23rd October 2008–1st February 2009

Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts

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

13th March 2009–10th June 2009

Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse

Monet, l'œil Impressionniste

15th October 2008–15th February 2009

Paris, Musée Marmottan

Emil Nolde

23rd September 200 –19th January 2009

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Rodin, la femme, la danse...

29th April 2008–20th July 2008

Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix

La Bretagne de Paul Signac

7th June 2008–6th October 2008

Pont-Aven, Musée Municipal

Van Gogh et Monticelli

September 2008–January 2009

Marseille, Musée de la Vieille Charité

Lumières nordiques. Les maîtres scandinaves en France 1870-1914

10th October 2008–6th January 2009

Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts

La nuit espagnole. Flamenco, avant-garde et culture populaire. 1865-1936

5th July 2008–31st August 2008

Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Portrait of a Lady : peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

1st April 2008–14th July 2008

Giverny, Musée d'Art Américain

Portrait of a Lady : peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

25th September 2008–5th January 2009

Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts

GERMANY

Wilhelm von Gloeden: Et in arcadia ego

27th January-26th October 2008

MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen

Works by the photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden ‘... auch ich in Arkadien’ (And I was also in Arcadia). Under this title, standing for idyll and beatitude, 400 photographs of von Gloeden are exhibited from the Collection Heinz-Peter Barandun, Zürich, Switzerland. Oscar Wilde was among the collectors of his works. For a review by Isa Bickmann, click here.

Symbolist Masterworks from Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Meisterwerke des Symbolismus aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt)

16th April - July 2008

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Paintings and Sculptures by Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Stuck and Max Klinger, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, John William Waterhouse and Walter Crane.

Painting Light: The Hidden Techniques Of The Impressionists (Impressionismus. Wie das Licht auf die Leinwand kam)

29th February—22nd June 2008

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 11th July–28th September 2008

http://www.impressionismus-wallraf.de/wrm-en/wrm-01.html

Which Impressionist painted on the lids of cigar boxes? How fast did Van Gogh really work? What secret was revealed by an X-ray of a Renoir? How can a fake be spotted? This presentation answers these and many other absorbing questions. With over 130 works, the show takes the visitor through the captivating world of Impressionist painting techniques. Apart from masterworks by Caillebotte, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Signac and Van Gogh, the exhibition features modern images showing the technical findings on these paintings. By bringing art and research face-to-face, the visitor is given an unparalleled glimpse behind the scenes of Impressionism. And the Wallraf will be stocking up for this show, with first class loans coming from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Art Institute of Chicago. (Text: Museum)

High Society, American Portraits of the Gilded Age

7th June –31st August 2008

Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg

http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de/h/index.php?lang=en

Mark Twain called the period following the American Civil War the ‘Gilded Age’. This term conveys the immense wealth of the newly established American moneyed aristocracy, which includes such famous families as that of railway baron Cornelius Vanderbilt. The urge of these industrial magnates to display their wealth was not only exhibited in their palatial dwellings in New York City and their spectacular country homes along the nearby eastern seaboard. This exhibition will demonstrate the influence that these members of the plutocracy exerted on portrait painting and its market at the end of the 19th century. The commissioned works reflect the fine social nuances which the winners of the explosive economic boom used to illustrate their position in society. The exhibition includes around fifty prestigious works, including paintings by John Singer Sargent and James Whistler, which offer European audiences a coherent introduction to late 19th century American portrait painting. (Text Museum)

Hans von Marées (1837-1887)

Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

8th June to 14th September 2008

http://www.von-der-heydt-museum.de/

Retrospective of the influential German Painter, important representative of Neo Classicism and ancestor of Symbolism.

Franz von Stuck

25th September 2008 – 18th January 2009

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

Traces du Sacré, traces of the spiritual in 20th century art

19th September 2008 – 11th January 2009

Haus der Kunst, München

http://www.hausderkunst.de/

The 20th century emerged during a time of a great crisis of faith. Nietzsche's philosophy with its declaration that 'god is dead', Max Weber's assertion of the 'world's disenchantment' were expression of this spiritual crux, which led to a changed relationship between people and religion. This, however, did not mean the end of metaphysics in art; rather it seems as if modern art, from Kandinsky to Francis Bacon and from Barnett Newman to Bill Viola, has a close relationship particularly to metaphysical questions. Artists showed and still show their will to find new forms for their aspirations in understanding endlessness. this extensive exhibition 'traces du sacré' explores the most extraordinary artistic modes of representation of this path in the 20th century and shows how it still to this day has led to the invention of new forms of expression. Amongst many others, the works shown are by Constantin Brancusi, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Giorgio De Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Gauguin, Damien Hirst, Ferdinand Hodler, Alexej Von Jawlensky, Martin Kippenberger, Kasimir Malewitsch, Piet Mondriaan, Edvard Munch, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter. also included are several non-western works in order to point out the universality of this spiritual question. In collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou – Musée National d’art moderne, Paris.

ALSO

Sur l'eau. Gustave Caillebotte

29th June–5th October 2008

Bremen, Kunsthalle

L'impressionnisme. Comment la lumière est entrée dans la toile

1st March–22nd June 2008

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec : noblesse de l'ordinaire

20th September 2008–17th January 2009

Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen

Edouard Vuillard

11th October 2008–18th January 2009

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle

HUNGARY

Ferdinand Hodler

9th September–14th December 2008

Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Musée des Beaux-Arts)

IRELAND

Impressionist Interiors

10th May–10th August 2008

Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland

Northern Stars and Southern Lights: The Golden Age of Finnish Art 1870-1920

National Gallery, Dublin

8th November 2008-1st February 2009

This exhibition will celebrate the highpoint of Finnish art, when the country was still a Grand Duchy of Russia.
It will feature major artists such as Albert Edelfelt and Akseli Gallen-Kallela, who merged native influences with international styles. Among the highlights of the show are Finnish symbolic landscapes and depictions of national legends and myths, particularly the Kalevala, a nineteenth-century compilation of Finnish and Karelian folklore as a significant literary source for artists. An overview of the various trends of early twenty-century Modernism in Finland will include works from the Septem Group (Magnus Enckell, Yrjö Ollila, Ellen Thesleff and Verner Thomé) and the November Group (Tyko Sallinen, Marcus Collin and Alwar Cawén). The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, part of the Finnish National Gallery.

ITALY

Van Gogh, les dessins de la collection du Kröller-Müller Museum

18th October 2008–29th January 2009

Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia

Klimt, Schiele et les chefs-d'œuvre du Belvedere

15th March–20th July 2008

Como, Villa Olmo

Peindre la lumière. L'Impressionnisme et ses techniques picturales

11th July–28th September 2008

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi

Seurat et Signac. Le néo-impressionnisme

9th October 2008–21st January 2009

Milan, Palazzo Reale

De Corot à Picasso et de Fattori à De Pisis. La Phillips Collection de Washington et la Collection Ricci Oddi de Plaisance

15th September 2008–15th January 2009

Perugia, Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. La maturité entre classique et moderne

7th March–29th June 2008

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano

Agostino Tassi

18th June–31st August 2008

Rome, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia

La Belle Epoque. Art en Italie 1880-1915

10th February–13rd July 2008

Rovigo, Palazzo Roverella

THE NETHERLANDS

Anton Mauve et Vincent Van Gogh : le maître et l'élève

12th October 2007–26th October 2008

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh et la nature morte française

16th May 2008–4th January 2008

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

Van Gogh et les couleurs de la nuit

13th February 2009–7th June 2009

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

Un authentique Toorop !

20th December 2008–22nd March 2009

Nijmegen, Museum Het Valkhof

NORWAY

The Cry and the Madonna revisited

23rd May–26th September 2008

Oslo, Munch Museum

Munch before ‘Munch’. Artistic stratégies 1880-1892

10th October 2008–12th January 2009

Oslo, Munch Museum

SPAIN

Las Cosas del Surrealismo

29th February–7th September 2008

Museo Guggenheim (Bilbao)

An exhibition which shows ceramics and paintings by Joan Miró and Jean Arp, sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, jewellery by Alexander Calder, furniture by Aldo Mollino.

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Séduction, modernité et utopie

3rd April–31st August 2008

Madrid, Caixa Forum

SWITZERLAND

Ferdinand Hodler – A Symbolist Vision

Kunstmuseum Bern

http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

9th April –10th August 2008

The main focus of the exhibition will be on Ferdinand Hodler's symbolistic vision of a great, harmonious unity of Humankind and Nature. The presentation will make clear that Hodler, from his early work through to his late work, consistently intensified his depiction of reality towards the symbolic and with this very personal symbolism, made a major contribution to the avant-garde of his time. Hodler's international importance will be evident in his absolute masterpieces. For the first time, in this exhibition different settings of the large, symbolic figure compositions will be systematically placed in relation to one another thus making new insights into Hodler's complex development of motif possible. The landscapes, portraits and self-portraits of the artist will also be illuminated by this aspect. All significant collectors as well as museums at home and abroad will be generously supporting the Museum of Fine Arts Bern with loans for the exhibition. (Text: Museum)

Rivoluzione! Italian Modernism from Segantini to Balla

26th September 2008–11th January 2009

Kunsthaus Zürich

http://www.kunsthaus.ch

USA

Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection

The Grolier Club, 47 E. 60th Street, New York. 21st February – 26th April 2008

Although this exhibition is now closed, we can refer readers to an on-line review by Maureen Mulvihill at http://www.victoriansociety.org/Grolier_Review2_VSAb-Final1.pdf. The catalogue of Facing the Late Victorians is available as a lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press. Copies are available at the Grolier Club or may be purchased from Associated University Presses, 2010  Eastpark Boulevard, Cranbury, NJ 08512.

Bonnard & Vuillard	23rd April –10th August 2008	Baltimore, Museum of Art
Edvard Munch et le modernisme européen	14th February–10th May 2009	Chicago, Art Institute
Photocollages Victoriens	10th October 2009–3rd January 2010	Chicago, Art Institute
Alma-Tadema et l'Antiquité : Imaginer la sculpture classique dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle	28th June–28th September 2008	Hanover, Hood Museum of Art
At home avec Gustav Stickley. Arts and Crafts de la collection Stephen Gray	11st October 2008–31st December 2008	Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau : peintres et photographes de Corot à Monet	13th July–19th October 2008	Houston,the Museum of Fine Arts
L'Impressionisme américain dans la collection Phillips	4th July–19th October 2008	Montgomery, Museum of Fine Arts
Le second âge d'or de l'art hollandais : peintures du XIXe siècle de la collection Beekhuis	11th October–13th December 2008	Moraga, Hearst Art Gallery
Les Cyprès et La Nuit étoilée de Van Gogh : visions de Saint-Rémy	15th June–7th September 2008	New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery
De Monet à Gauguin. L'artiste voyageur à l'époque impressioniste	14th November 2008–28th February 2009	New Orleans, Museum of Art
Le Japonisme dans l'art graphique américain 1880-1920	16th April–3rd August 2008	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Pierre Bonnard : les intérieurs tardifs	27th January–19th April 2009	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Gogh et les couleurs de la nuit	21st September 2008–5th January 2009	New York, Museum of Modern Art
Les Impressionnistes américains. Peinture de la collection Phillips	6th November 2008–18th January 2009	Oklahoma City, Museum of Art
Le Paysage à l'âge de l'Impressionnisme	10th October 2008–5th January 2009	Portland (Th Mayne), Museum of Art
Femmes Impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond	21st June–21st September 2008	San Francisco, Legion of Honor
L'inspiration impressioniste: les Impressionistes et l'art du passé	19th June–21st September 2008	Seattle, Art Museum

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