Tag: Art
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Bührle
Bührle In the run-up to World War II, the artist Oskar Kokoschka, declared ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis, fled from his native Austria to Czechoslovakia. He was then forced to emigrate to England, where, among other things, he created several anti-fascist paintings during the war. At the same time, the German arms manufacturer and dealer Bührle…
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Mr. and Mrs. Cézanne
Mr. and Mrs. Cézanne What would they have thought of the fact that they were going to be part of the Bührle collection, as mentioned on the captions next to the paintings in the Kunsthaus museum.Bührle, the art collector, having become filthy rich through his arms trade with Nazi Germany.You look at the portraits, admire…
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Kunst im Kunsthaus
Kunst im Kunsthaus This sculpture, placed in a large open space of the Kunsthaus, enters into a special relationship with its environment. We may speak of a very happy union. I can’t imagine a more beautiful contrast between Maillol’s reclining nude and the bare straight surfaces in this corner of the museum. Sculpture and space…
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Reclining woman
Reclining woman Picasso’s ‘Big Nude’ seen through ‘The Forest’ by Giacometti. A painting and a sculpture in a room of the Kunsthaus. Photos of the week: Pablo Picasso, Big Nude, 1964, and: Alberto Giacometti, The Forest, bronze, 1950, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Tall Woman
Tall Woman When designing the extension of the Kunsthaus museum, Chipperfield may have had Giacometti’s Tall Woman in mind. Photo of the week: Alberto Giacometti, Tall Woman II, bronze, 1960, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Pegasus
Pegasus Pegasus in the footsteps of Icarus.Wings burned; fallen from the sky on top of a high building.What now? Photo of the week: Pegasus, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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The escape
The escape For the 2024 edition of ‘Le Voyage à Nantes’ Cyril Pedrosa has liberated the four caryatids of the Wallace fountain in four progressive steps. First two caryatids have lowered their arms and can now do something else, like watering seedlings, while the other two manage to hold the dome up in the air.…
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The Wallace fountain
The Wallace fountain For the last 150 years numerous of these free drinking water fountains can be found all over Paris. They are called Wallace fountains, named after the British philanthropist who made the initial design and financed them. They were further developed and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, an artist from Nantes, where this specimen…
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Back again
Back again This girl just comes back from her own ‘Voyage à Nantes’. She was placed here by Philippe Ramette for the 2018 edition of the artistic itinerary in Nantes and she loves to roam around the city every now and then, especially when a new itinerary has been laid out. Photos of the week:…
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Interior jungle
Interior jungle Every year the city of Nantes organises an artistic itinerary (Le Voyage à Nantes) which leads you through the different neigbourhoods of the city and for which invited artists have made art works on location. Some of these art works are kept after the exhibition is over and become permanent land marks of…
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