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The 250th anniversary of the birth of German artist Caspar David Friedrich is being marked by an exhibition in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, the city of his birth. The comprehensive exhibition, which opens on Sunday, contains paintings, drawings, prints, letters and other original material by and about the Romantic Period landscape artist, who is renowned for his allegorical works. The collection entitled "Caspar David Friedrich. Lifelines" – is being shown virtually in its entirety for the first time, the museum said on Friday. It includes his baptismal certificate from 1774 – ...
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One of the last works by Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt was sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday for €30 million ($32.1 million). The "Portrait of Miss Lieser" went surprisingly quickly to a bidder in the room at the Auction House Im Kinsky. The work, which had previously been estimated at between €30 million and €50 million, was thought to have been lost for 100 years. The auction house spoke of a "magnificent rediscovery." Around 15,000 art enthusiasts had come to Im Kinsky for the preview in Vienna over the past few days, it said. It had been privately owned in Austria for decades, the ...
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One of the last works by Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt was sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday for €30 million ($32.1 million). The "Portrait of Miss Lieser" went surprisingly quickly to a bidder in the room at the Auction House Im Kinsky. The work, which had previously been estimated at between €30 million and €50 million, was thought to have been lost for 100 years. The auction house spoke of a "magnificent rediscovery." Around 15,000 art enthusiasts had come to Im Kinsky for the preview in Vienna over the past few days, it said. It had been privately owned in Austria for decades, the ...
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Over the coming weeks, a small exhibition of East German photography aims to build a bridge from the Venice Biennale art exhibition to the Capital of Culture 2025 in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. Under the title "Anleitung zum Sehen" (Guide to Seeing), works by photographers Margret Hoppe, Oskar Schmidt and Edgar Leciejewski, all former master students of Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, are on display. Photographs from Leciejewski's "Aves" (Latin for birds) series - portraits that show birds very close up and full of grace - and from Hoppe's "Die Verschwundenen Bi...
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The Venice Biennale art exhibition officially opened to visitors on Saturday, with prizes awarded to Indigenous artists and a focus on marginalized groups. Australian Archie Moore and the New Zealand artist group Mataaho Collective received the top prizes at the event's official opening. Further prizes were awarded to Italian-Brazilian painter and sculptor Anna Maria Maiolino and the Turkish graphic artist and photographer Nil Yalter, who received a Golden Lion for their life's work. Archie Moore designed the Australian pavilion, called "Kith and Kin" and received the Golden Lion for the best ...
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The Venice Biennale art exhibition is due to officially open to visitors on Saturday. An international art audience is expected in the Giardini, the Arsenale and other venues in the historic northern Italian city for the 60th edition of the exhibition, which runs until November 24. Alongside the documenta in the German city of Kassel, the art biennial is considered the most important presentation of contemporary art and attracts artists and guests from around the world. This year's edition focuses on the experience of foreignness and the themes of migration and exile. Under the title "Foreigne...
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The Venice Biennale art exhibition, among the best-known and closely watched contemporary art shows in Europe, opened to trade visitors on Thursday. The main exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until November 24. The German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale showcases works by Israeli artist Yael Bartana and Berlin theatre director Ersan Mondtag. In addition to the contributions by Bartana and Mondtag in the Giardini, four other artists will be exhibiting on the neighbouring island of La Certosa not far from the Lido: Michael Akstaller, Nicole L'Huillier, Robert Lippok and Jan St Werner. Togeth...
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The Venice Biennale art exhibition is due to open to trade visitors on Thursday. The main exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until November 24. Alongside documenta in the German city of Kassel, the Biennale is regarded as the most important presentation of contemporary art. The German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale showcases works by Israeli artist Yael Bartana and Berlin theatre director Ersan Mondtag. In addition to the contributions by Bartana and Mondtag in the Giardini, four other artists will be exhibiting on the neighbouring island of La Certosa not far from the Lido: Michael Akstal...
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A group of people demonstrated against Israel in front of the closed Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale art exhibition on Wednesday. The group then moved on to the US pavilion and the German pavilion. The activists called for a boycott of Israeli art in Venice. Speakers called Israel a "terrorist state" and a "totalitarian state" and also harshly criticized Germany. Representatives of the so-called Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) were also involved in the protest. They distributed flyers. In light of the Gaza war, Israel is increasingly being criticized internationally for its actions in...
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A blockbuster new exhibition of works by the famed German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is due to open on Friday at Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie. The show in Berlin, titled "Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes," opens just weeks after another major exhibition of Friedrich's paintings at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg closed after drawing sell-out crowds and a total of around 335,000 visitors over several months. Friedrich is widely considered the most renowned master of German Romantic painting. The exhibitions are planned to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth in the...
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