Exhibitions related to Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Arts & Crafts, Modernism and Stile Liberty

Jugendstil in Gera

Henry van de Velde und das Haus Schulenburg. Baugeschichte and Rekonstruktion

Henry van de Velde and the Jugendstil in Bürgel

Kurt Herrmann

Henry Van de Velde in Jena : Gemälde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Fotos und Documente

Max Ackermann

Objects in Focus: the Emilie Flöge Fabric Sample Collection

The Austrian Folklore Museum was able to acquire 350 of these objects in 1998 from the Flöge estate. These will go on show to the public for the first time from May to October 2012 and will be presented against the backdrop of the discovery and invention of folk art around 1900. Comparative non-textile exhibits will help to present the fabrics in their wider historical context.

Klimt. The Wien Museum Collection

The Wien Museum owns an exceptional Klimt collection, which will go on public display in its entirety for the first time. A number of paintings will be on show alongside 400 sketches, posters and printed materials, including the most important work of art in the Wien Museum, the "Portrait of Emilie Flöge", which was completed in 1902. The work is one of Klimt's most famous paintings and the first portrait of a female subject to feature ornamental detailing in the foreground.

Gustav Klimt and the Künstlerhaus

This exhibition uses documents, letters and photographs from the Künstlerhaus archive to explain many of the artistic and biographical milestones in the work of Gustav Klimt.

Women, Hand wowen Rugs, Home Industry

The exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest presents hand-woven wool rugs made in 19th century peasant households together with applied art objects produced by the turn-of-the-century home industry workshops of the country. In some peasant communities woven wool rugs were major items in a woman’s trousseau, they played a part in the important occasions in human life. In the last decades of the 19th century, together with other creations of folk art, scholars and politicians became aware of woven rugs, discovering their aesthetic value and also seeing in them the possibility for integrating peasant work and women’s work, thus helping women to rise out of poverty. Amongst the newly created home-industry workshops, especially those in Torontál County (today part of Vojvodina, Serbia) played an important role the history of Hungarian applied arts, producing rugs and tapestries based on local “archaic” patterns, as well as on the designs of major art nouveau designers. (Pál Horti, János Vaszary).

Gustav Klimt: Expectation and Fulfillment. Designs for the Mosaic Frieze at Stoclet Palace
Tue-Sun : 10:00-18:00

The entire Stoclet Palace in Brussels is considered a work of Art Nouveau and was designed largely by Josef Hoffmann and Gustav Klimt. Klimt's nine design drawings for the mosaic with the familiar themes of "Expectation", "Fulfillment" and the "Tree of Life" were created in 1910/11. After several years of restoration work, they are now on display at the MAK. The exhibition focus on documents he wrote about while he was working on the frieze and what can be seen in the frieze

Gustav Klimt : a (time) journey
10:00-18:00 except Thu 10:00-21:00

On the occasion of the Klimt-year 2012 the Leopold Museum takes the postcards and correspondences to the centre stage of an exhibition for the very first time and focuses mainly on Klimt’s journeys.

Klimt drawings

Comprehensive collection of 170 drawings by Klimt. This special anniversary exhibition also draws on world-class loan exhibits taken from Austrian and international collections. Preparation works for his paintings are seldom put on display, but they give a rare and far-reaching insight into the working practices and creative universe of the artist, who almost never commented on his own work

Gustav Klimt at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Tue-Sun : 10:00-18:00

Gustav Klimt - Josef Hoffmann
10:00-18:00, Wed : 10:00-21:00

This exhibition introduces the Klimt Year 2012. The painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and the architect and product and interior designer Josef Hoffmann shared a common vision of an art that was meant to touch all spheres of life. Over two decades, they were joined in their artistic and social activities, even if the intensity of their collaboration varied. They frequented the same circles, worked for the same clientele, and were both leading personalities in Vienna’s newly emerging art scene. Catalogue in English and German

Jules Chéret (1836 - 1932) Painter of the Belle Epoque and Pionieer of placard art
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00

Jacques Gruber and Art Nouveau: : A Decorative Path

Jacques Gruber is my favourite stain glass artist. This exceptional exhibition will display nearly 200 items : drawings, paintings, decorative items, posters and stained glass. Of course his stain glass work will be at the heart of the show. The museum of the school of Nancy who organises this exhibition has restored for this special occasion never shown stain glasses coming from its reserve.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela - European Master

Akseli Gallen-Kallela is one of the most well known Finnish Art Nouveau artist. This exhibition is organised by the Helsinki Art Museum, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.

Egon Schiele: Melancholy and Provocation
10:00-18:00 except Thu 10:00-21:00

The major exhibition Egon Schiele: Melancholy and Provocation introduce to the public a pioneering re-presentation of the Leopold Collection’s masterpieces by Egon Schiele.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner als Architekt
Tue, Thu, Fri: 10:00-18:00 Wed: 10:00-20:00 Sat: 10:00-24:00

Before becoming a world famous expresionnist painter and sculptor, EL Kirchner studied architecture in Dresde and Munich at the time of Art Nouveau.

The Art of the Poster

In the late 19th century many artists exploited new printing techniques to create striking poster designs. This display features innovative work by Mackintosh, the Macdonald sisters, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Jules Cheret. The display has been made possible with support from Museums Galleries Scotland.

Victor Horta : A lost world
Wed-Sun 12:00-18:00

This exhibition is about lost or project works of Horta : La Maison du Peuple (People's House) demolished in 1965, sketches for Anna Boch, Innovation Department store (destroyed by fire in 1967), the Wolfers stores (largely modified), the project of Congo pavilion for 1900 world fair in Paris and Aubecq residence (demolished)

Suur-Merijoki manor as a total work of art

Exhibition presents Suur-Merijoki manor, that was built 1901-1904 in the Rural Commune of Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus, which at the time of construction belonged to the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire. Designed by the architects Herman Gesellius (1874-1916), Armas Lindgren (1874-1929) and Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950), the main building of Suur-Merijoki Manor is the best-known and most complete total work of art in the history of Finnish architecture. The collaboration of these Finnish architects still at the beginning of their careers with their client, the businessman Maximilian Othmar Neuscheller of St. Petersburg, was an opportunity for realizing even their wildest plans. Suur-Merijoki Manor was intended for the leisure use of a family with seven children. On display are beautiful original furniture and sculptures from Suur-Merijoki manor. Manor and its' planning is presented by colorful watercolor washes by Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. Maximilian Othmar Neuscheller himself photographed his leisure house and on display are also color photographs taken by Neuscheller during 1910's.

Emilio Ambrosini - architectural creations in Rijeka and Opatija 1884 - 1912

The exhibition and monograph will be presented to the entire creation of the famous Art Nouveau architect's most important in Rijeka in the period from his arrival in the city on Rječini in 1888 until his death in 1912. After his studies in Graz Ambrosini was created in the spirit of the Central High Historicism. Because of the politicized public criticism, client requests, and perhaps nostalgia for the style that marked his schooling until the end of his career kept historicist design of facades and articulation of the interior, while also monitoring and artistic events in Vienna. From there the beginning of the 20th century began arriving impulses of modern scientific urban planning which have led to the design of facilities encompassing Art Nouveau features (houses Schittar, Fabich etc.). Given that the secession of us realized mainly through the facades of plastic invaluable to us the importance of Ambrosini facade decorated with geometric and figurative decoration of classical refinement. Rampant market laws forced him to return to the past succession of styles, but even in these works shows his mature conception of architecture. The exhibition will be issued and monographs Emilio Ambrosini in Croatian and Italian.