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Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism
The new presentation of the Leopold Museum's collection highlights the splendour and wealth of artistic achievements of an era shaped by the emergence of the Secessionists, the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and the deaths of eminent artists of Viennese Modernism, including Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner. Like the exhibition, the accompanying 560-page publication also aims to convey a sense of the character of this time and of the vibrant atmosphere in the metropolis of Vienna.Twelve scientific essays by renowned experts illustrate the historical aspects and biographies of the era's eminent protagonists whose fruitful synergy provided the basis for Vienna's unique cultural life around the turn of the century. A comprehensive appendix of illustrations shows the highlights of the Leopold Collection presented in the exhibition as well as important external loans.
Ernesto Neto
'I am sculpture and think as sculpture' - Ernesto NetoNeto is internationally renowned for his frequently biomorphic-like sculptures that modify their surrounding space and invite the viewer to interact with them.This catalogue is conceived as a retrospective and offers new, comprehensive insights into Neto's biosculptural cosmos, which is made up of sensuousness, intimacy and interrelationships.Essays as well as an extensive section of images reveal not only the roots of his oeuvre in Brazil's art history, but offer multiple perspectives on his work that can be experienced with all the senses.This publication also documents the newly commissioned installation, Aru Kuxipa Sacred Secret. This new work addresses shamanic spiritual traditions and handed-down healing rituals of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, interweaving them with issues of anthropology, ceremonial and tradition, as well as forms of contemporary art-making.Published on the occaasion of the exhibitions at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (25 June 25 - October 2015), and at Kunsthalle Krems (19 July - 1 November 2015).English and German text.
Hundertwasser - Schiele
Friedensreich Hundertwasser shaped 20th-century art beyond the borders of Austria as a painter, designer of living spaces and pioneer of the environmental movement. His life-long, intense exploration of the personality and oeuvre of Egon Schiele is largely unknown. At the age of 20, when he was a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, the artist discovered Viennese Modernism through exhibitions and books: Schiele, especially, would later become a central point of reference for the internationally active artist. Shining the spotlight on central motifs and themes in the works of both artists, such as ensouled nature and the relationship between the individual and society, the catalogue illustrates analogies in their oeuvres that go beyond formal similarities. The exhibition retraces the artistic and spiritual kinship of two extraordinary 20th-century Austrian artists, who never had the chance to meet. Text: Bazon Brock, Robert Fleck, Alexandra Matzner
Martha Jungwirth
The Kunsthalle Krems dedicates a comprehensive retrospective to Marta Jungwirth (b. 1940), the great loner on the Austrian art scene. The show will be presenting works from five decades.00After studies at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts from 1956 to 1963, she first came to public notice with works that used different techniques - pencil drawings, watercolors, and works in oils and ink. Early on, she received awards such as the “Theodor-Körner-Preis” (1964) or the “Joan Miró Prize” (1967). In 1968, she was the only female artist to become a founding member of a loose group of artists that called itself "Wirklichkeiten" ("Realities"). At that time, however, Jungwirth had already t...
Egon Schiele
The Leopold Museum in Vienna houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Egon Schiele, which features a unique concentration of chief works by this Austrian artist. The present publication offers a closer look at some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings from this unrivaled collection, which cover all the periods of the artist's oeuvre, while the large illustrations afford exceptional insights into Egon Schiele's artistic genius and his preoccupation with line and color. Essays not only impressively outline the milieu and career of this provocative artist but also highlight Schiele's place among the great masters of the 20th century.
Wow! The Heidi Horten Collection
The exhibition ?WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection? is the first public presentation of one of the most impressive European private collections. The presentation at the Leopold Museum fulfils the collector?s long-cherished wish to make the masterpieces meticulously collected by her since the 1990s by artists from Gustav Klimt to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst accessible to a wide audience. Featuring more than 170 works from 100 years of art history, the presentation affords individual insights into the spectrum of art and artists united by Heidi Goess-Horten under one roof. The largest groups of works are those of Expressionism and American Pop Art. On display are works by Marc Chagall, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, August Macke, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and many others.00Exhibition: Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (16.02.-29.07.2018).
The Celebrity Monarch
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth’s role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by spectators. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Elisabeth’s private collection of celebrity photography to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, this book positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her public image and argues for the widespread influence of her construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.
New Objectivity
Drawing on new research from local archives as well as reinterpretations of published literature,Power and the Peopledescribes how England remained governable between 1525 and 1640, despite the wars, famine, epidemics, and dynastic and religious crises of the period. The book surveys the mechanisms of authority at various levels, from the street and alehouse to the manor and the royal court. Maintaining order was a difficult challenge, given that England had no standing army or professional police, and Alison Wall investigates everything from the roles of village constables to the social cohesiveness that came from civic celebrations and participatory politics. Her book provides students with a rich perspective on the social world and political culture of early modern England.
