RENATE BERTLMANN (A): from the series Top U29 (2005).
On her current exhibition in Vienna, see:
derstandard.at/2000073066949/Renate-Bertlmann-Luftige-Lustkoerper
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Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, exhibition, gender, Vienna on 30 January 2018 by delclemModernism in Vienna & Zagreb
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art history, exhibition, modernism, Vienna, Zagreb on 29 January 2018 by delclem
NASTA ROJC: Ilica Street, Zagreb & Self-Portrait in Hunting Gear (1912)
(from the exhibition: ‚Modernism in Vienna & Zagreb‘, Belvedere, Vienna)
>>review in German (c) DiE PRESSE, 2017
The art Hitler dismissed as ‘filth’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', Berlin, exhibition, Germany, National Socialism, New York, review on 12 March 2014 by delclem
“Degenerate Art”: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. This New York exhibition revisits not only Germany’s ‘Degenerate Art’ show that destroyed so many artistic careers, but the Nazi rhetoric that made the exhibition possible. >review
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
“Vienna – Berlin: The Art of Two Cities”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, Berlin, exhibition, Germany, Vienna on 27 February 2014 by delclem
“Whereas the affinities in literature and music between Vienna and Berlin have been the subject of in-depth study in recent years, there is still a lot of ground to be covered in the visual arts. This is a desideratum that the Berlinische Galerie and the Vienna Belvedere have sought to overcome in a large-scale exhibition organized by both museums.” >review & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2014
“Inward-Looking Portraits”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 22 December 2013 by delclem
The Lucian Freud exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum was one of the highlights of the autumn 2013 exhibition season. Those who have not yet done so are well advised to check it out before 12 January. It’s worth it! >Text (a bit odd;) & album with images (c) wieninternational.at 2013 Also see another text posted earlier.
Photographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
“A brush with the past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria-Hungary, cultural history, Edmund de Waal, exhibition, Gret Britain, Vienna 1900 on 1 October 2013 by delclem
“Ahead of a major new exhibition of portraits from turn-of-the-century Vienna, the award-winning writer Edmund de Waal reveals his own family’s intimate links to the city.” >full text & photo album (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2013
Ill. above: Portrait of Empress Elisabeth (1899) by Gyula Benczúr
Street Art in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, Roa, street art, Vienna on 10 August 2013 by delclem
Following its traces in streets & galleries >full text (and more pics)
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
“Mexiko Max”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Habsburg, House of Habsburg, Maximilian of Mexico, Mexico, review, Vienna on 28 July 2013 by delclem
A “beautiful corpse” from the Habsburg collection is on display in Vienna.
Mauthausen: Life in the Details
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, concentration camp, exhibition, Holocaust, Mauthausen, National Socialism, review on 21 July 2013 by delclem
“A bicycle from Poland. Pieces of a Messerschmitt fighter plane from U.S. Air Force archives in Alabama. Camp log books from Caen. An embroidered handkerchief, tossed out a prison window by a woman on her way to execution for helping Allied paratroopers. A rusty watchtower searchlight, unearthed just last year. Wedding rings, watches & photos confiscated upon arrival here 1938-45.
On 5 May, two new permanent exhibitions were opened at Austria’s concentration camp memorial at Mauthausen along with a Room of Names – all part of an ongoing redesign scheduled for completion in 2018.”>full text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
delirium clemens 