From Manhattan to the Bauhaus: First Lyonel Feininger retrospective in North America is exclusive to Montreal

MONTREAL.- Through May 13, 2012, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been strangely forgotten since he spent most of his life in Germany. A celebrated cartoonist, a leading figure of Expressionism alongside Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, a professor at the avant-garde Bauhaus School, from its founding in Weimar [...]

Marc Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario

TORONTO, ON.- The Art Gallery of Ontario brings the magic and wonder of modern painter Marc Chagall to Toronto next month with a major exhibition organized by the world-renowned contemporary art museum, Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris is on view from Oct. 18, 2011 to Jan. 15, 2012, and includes 32 vivid and imaginative works by Marc Chagall and eight pieces by Wassily Kandinsky, alongside pieces from other visionaries of Russian modernism [...]

Paul Klee & Cobra explored in major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark

HUMLEBAEK.- The major exhibition of the autumn at the Louisiana Museum explores for the first time the relationship between the Cobra movement (1948-51) and the Swiss artist Paul Klee’s (1879-1940) works and artistic thinking. For artists like Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Ejler Bille and Corneille, Klee’s art seemed to show the way forward after the war. They encountered them in publications as early as the 1930s; later came the first exhibitions in Denmark and Holland and – most significantly – the later legendary [...]

Lanskoy: A Russian painter in Paris exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum

VILLENEUVE D’ ASCQ- For the first time in a French museum, the exhibition Lanskoy, un peintre russe à Paris (Lanskoy, a Russian painter in Paris) presents a large-scale retrospective of the work of André Lanskoy. The museum owns a unique and exceptional collection of the artist’s works (some sixty figurative paintings and about ten abstract works), built up by Roger Dutilleul and Jean Masurel, who donated the modern art collection to LaM and who championed Lanskoy from the 1920s onwards. Through [...]

Moderna Museet in Malmo Presents Exhibition of Early Modernism from 1900 to 1920

MALMO.- In the latter half of the 19th century, the rules and norms governing visual arts were dissolved and replaced by a wide array of artistic possibilities, where small constellations of artists fought for new, revolutionary ideas. Partly as a consequence of the emerging art of photography in the second half of the 1800s, the artists of the time eschewed the concept of naturalistic depiction and instead began to explore the conditions of painting. Illusionist painting was no longer a [...]

AGO Partners with Centre Pompidou to Bring Masterworks by Chagall, Kandinsky to Toronto

TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario is bringing the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall to Toronto next fall with a major exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris on view from October 15, 2011 through January 15, 2012, features the lush, colourful, and dreamlike art of Marc Chagall alongside the visionaries of Russian modernism, including Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay, and Vladimir Tatlin. Drawn [...]

German Museum Finds Rare Ludwig Kirchner in Cellar

BERLIN (AP).- A German museum has discovered what it believes to be a previously unknown work by German Expressionist artist Ludwig Kirchner that languished in its cellar for decades. The Staedel Museum announced the find on Tuesday, saying that it had discovered it as part of renovation. The canvas is painted on both sides, with a rare nude, believed to have been painted in 1910, on the back. The Frankfurt museum plans to restore the work and put it on [...]

Lenbachhaus Presents Its First Ever Comprehensive Show of the Blauer Reiter Group

MUNICH.- With this exhibition the Lenbachhaus is presenting its first ever comprehensive show of its outstanding collection of graphic works by artists of the Blauer Reiter group, including watercolours, drawings and prints. The exhibition will include the museum’s complete holdings of graphic works by Albert Bloch, Heinrich Campendonk, Robert Delaunay, Alexei Jawlensky, Eugen von Kahler, Paul Klee, Else Lasker-Schüler, August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexander Sacharoff, Eugen Schiemann, and Marianne von Werefkin, with many of these works being presented to the [...]