Claude Monet exhibition in Vienna

Posted on August 10, 2018 by worldcityguides

Claudio Monet lived between 1840 and 1926, and he is among the most famous painters ever. He is the greatest character within the impressionist movement, and from September 21st you can an exhibition in Albertina dedicated to him.

Beautiful Monet art in Albertina - Source: Albertina.at — Beautiful Monet art in Albertina – Source: Albertina.at

Vienna is a city for art lovers. Not only do they have the fantastic Museum of Fine Arts, but they also have the Albertina museum. The latter has some Monet works in their permanent exhibition as well, but for this temporary exhibition, they will bring in even more Monet works from other art galleries and collections worldwide.

The gardens of Giverny are famous among people who love art today, but they would never have been so if it wasn’t for Monet. But, how did Monet end up being the number one impressionist in the world? If you visit the Claudio Monet exhibition in Albertina you can see how he went from being a realist painter to become an impressionist. No longer did he only paint what he saw, but he also set a new trend in creating abstract art.

Want to visit the Monet exhibition in Vienna? It will be on display in Albertina from September 21st until January 6th in 2019.

You can read more about the exhibition in the official press release here. Want to know more about Vienna? Visit our Vienna Guide for more information, news, and beautiful pictures.

Sturtevant exhibition

Posted on January 21, 2015 by worldcityguides

For the very first time an exhibition on Sturtevant will be shown at the Albertina Museum. Sturtevant was an American painter who is best known for appropriation art.

This will be the first major exhibition on the art works of Sturtevant at the Albertina Museum and in total 100 different drawings, prints, images and paintings will be shown for the visitors. The art works present the the artist’s creative process mostly the period between 1964 and 2004. At the exhibition visitors can have a closer look on the 80 drawings which are exhibited the first time and discover more on the remarkable work of Sturtevant. Sturtevant started her career in 1965 and the drawings from this period of time help to understand the process and the motivation the artist had. All the works of Sturtevant are copies of other artist and she mainly focused on the works of the American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition Sturtevant: Drawing Double Reversal will take place at the Albertina Museum in Vienna from 14th February to 10th May in 2015.

Albertina Museum
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

If you want to know more on the exhibitiosn in the Albertina museum, click here.

Comprehensive exhibition in Vienna 2015

Posted on January 15, 2015 by worldcityguides

The dream archive from the Musèe d’Orsay will visit the Albertina Museum for a few weeks and make it possible to the visitors to explore some of the most beautiful art works of the different artists and at the exhibition visitors will also have the chance to discover the most outstanding and most popular artists of the French art.

The visitors will have a comprehensive picture on the different forms of art through the various paintings shown at the exhibition. At the exhibition over 130 masterpieces will be presented to the visitors including some of the biggest names of art such as Paul Cèzanne, François Millet, Giovanni Segantini, Renoir, Maillol and so on. At the exhibition various forms of art will be also shown through the colourful works of symbolism and impressionism. At the exhibition drawings, chalk sketches and paintings will be shown to the visitors who can explore the different styles and eras of art and how it changed through the years and centuries.

The exhibition “the dream archive” from the Musèe d’Orsay will take place at the Albertina Museum in the capital city of Austria in Vienna from 30th January to 3rd May in 2015.

Albertina Museum
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

For more information on the museum read on in the following article.

Miro: From earth to sky – Vienna exhibition

Posted on September 25, 2014February 18, 2018 by worldcityguides

This exhibition represents a wide collection of Miro. Joan Miro is a Catalan Spanish painter, ceramicist and sculptor. He was born in 1893 and he died in 1983 in Barcelona.

In Barcelona there is a museum dedicated to his art work which was established in 1975. He is a really well known surrealist painter and he became one of the most popular painters in the 20th century. At the exhibition visitors will have the chance to have an insight look in the life of the painter and to experience life through the way he saw the world around him. The exhibition covers over more than 100 paintings, drawings and other art works that shows the real characteristics of surrealism. His paintings and art works have a carefree and spontaneous style.

Joan Miro’s paintings have typical and unmistakable characteristics. The exhibition you can see his most famous art works The Farm, the Metamorphosis and the Landscape. His most recognizable elements in his paintings are the moon, the stars, the sky, insects, birds and women. The Miro exhibition will take place at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition will be held from 12th September 2014 until 11th January in 2015.

If you want to get more information on the museum and the exhibition check the official site for more details.

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From Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection

Posted on October 21, 2013 by worldcityguides

The most famous museum in the capital of Austria, Vienna is admittedly the Albertina Museum, where better and better temporary and permanent exhibitions welcome visitors. Unusually the Monet to Picasso fantasy named exhibition is seeable out of the Albertina between 20 September 2013 and 10 December 2013; one half is available at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, the other half is loaned to Eremitage St. Petersburg.

Naturally the two great artists’ masterpieces are not the only what we can see on the exhibition, there are other monumental painters’ works between the exhibited objects. Art lovers can see for example Renoir’s, Cézanne’s, Modigliani’s, Matisse’s, Kirchner’s and other incredibly talented painters’ works too.

The collection got its name after the collectors, Herbert and Rita Batliner. Batliners started collecting around half hundred years ago. The couple fell in love with French artists’ works during collecting, the most frequent pieces are Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces; the Batliner Collection contains around 40 Picasso works. Batliners often loaned the rich collection to different museums, and a few years ago they have decided to present the whole collection to the Albertina Museum.

The Batliner Collection, what is visiting now the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Eremitage St. Petersburg between 20 September 2013 and 10 December 2013 is totally worth to see, when you are in Vienna at the same time.

Matisse exhibition at the Albertina

Posted on October 21, 2013 by worldcityguides

The capital of Austria, Vienna is one of the most outstanding centers of culture and art in Middle Europe. We can say that the Austrian capital’s most important museum is the Albertina Museum. The famous institution in Vienna has several temporary and permanent exhibitions; the Matisse exhibition belongs to the first version. It is available between 20 September 2013 and 12 January 2014 and it shows Matisse’s and his contemporaries, the fauvists’ works on a high level.

Henri Matisse and his partners showed up at the 3rd Autumn Salon in Paris with rough-and-ready, but very colorful paintings. In 1905 art lovers’ critics weren’t too positive, the works of Matisse and his friends actually shocked the audience instead it have impressed them. We can origin the expression, fauves or wild animals from this shock, after that the name of the style was born from it: fauvism. Nevertheless, modern painting would be very different from what we can see today without fauvism; moreover it was the 20th century’s first avant-garde endeavor.
The exhibition in the Albertina is unique in every way, because it’s not only the first time, you can see Matisse’s and his contemporaries’ works in the Austrian capital, but this is the first time, the whole Middle European area can enjoy fauvists’ interesting masterpieces.

Besides Henri Matisse visitors can see André Derain’s, Maurice de Vlaminck’s, Georges Braque’s and Kees van Dongen’s fantastic paintings too. If you are in Vienna between 20 September 2013 and 12 January 2014, you couldn’t skip the Albertina Museum and Matisse’s and the fauvists’ amazing exhibition.