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‘Animaloculomat’ • Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Already by 1909 Jakob Johann von Uexküll had, in Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere, given a great deal of consideration to the „Innenleben“ of animals. For Franz Marc this led to the question of how a horse, an eagle, a deer, or a dog saw and experienced the world,...
Franz Marc painting still missing at Haus am Waldsee
"Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc" at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin I really wanted to like Haus am Waldsee’s thematic “Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc,” but was also nervous about all the expectations of the referenced Franz Marc...
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim
This post goes with a book review of the exhibition catalogue Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017) for Museum Bookstore which is posted here and also follows in a slightly different form below. It has been one of life's great pleasures to see Franz Marc's...
Botanic Gardens in the Volksstaat Hessen
Over the Easter weekend I went on several hikes with my friends Wiebke and Luisa, which during the winter involved getting lost and crossing the partially iced-over Fulda. These walks were not as perilous though there was some Osternausflippen on the tiny Cantus train...
Ars Graphica Deutschland at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Ars Graphica is a group of mostly European scholars who study prints but also photography. The pan-European organization also has a few Gesamtstaaten. Ars Graphica Deutschland recently branched off and began its own activities. The first...
Max Beckmann in New York: Exhibition Visit and Book Review
While I was in New York City for the College Art Association meeting – more on this next post – I was really busy and also sick the entire time. Fortunately though I did get to go to a few museums, and a significant highlight was the Max Beckmann in New York...
August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship
Book Review: August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 25 September 2014 – 4 January 2015; and at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 28 January – 3 May 2015; 359 pages with many...
Franz Marc’s and August Macke’s Paradies: We Meet in Münster
Whatever happens in the future, my time in Münster will be the happiest I can ever remember. I was there for several weeks and finally had a substantial Paradies mural Franz Marc and August Macke made together in Macke’s upstairs atelier in Bonn in 1912. The mural was...
Schwitters’s Shadow Signatures: Merzbau at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1
Hannover's Sprengel Museum is such a fascinating space this most recent visit deserves a series of discrete posts of mostly photos. It was here in 2009 to see the visiting Hund vor der Welt on loan to the Sprengel for "Die Schönheit einer zerbrechenden Welt (1910 –...
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