Kunstgeschiedenis Algemeen

Art exhibition “Between heaven and war” in Utrecht, Spring 2025

  Yes, we can create heaven on earth! What are we going to do? Kandinsky, Strahlenlinien, 1927, BvB Malevich, Suprematisme van de geest, 1919, SMA Lissitzky, Nieuwe mens, 1923, VAM Jawlensky, Abstrakter Kopf, 1925, SM Berlin Werefkina, Via Crucis II, 1921, MC Ascona An inspirational selection of Interbellum works of art by Tsarist Russian born […]

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Radical – Women artists and modernism, Arnhem

Titles like the above are eyecatchers, at least for art historians who happen to be women. Since the early 1990s I was among the eager travellers to Cologne and other European cities to see solo exhibitions of Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) and other modernists. I love it to this day. Traditionally however, museums show art works

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Werefkina’s oeuvre highlighted in NL

Now on view: An interesting retrospective of Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) in Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. Above a self-portrait as a confident artist, painted in her studio in Blagodat near Kaunus (then Russian Empire) in 1893. After a painting break of 10 years (1896-1906) in which she experienced a personal and artistic identity crisis,

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De betekenis van Akhtyrka voor Kandinsky en de moderne kunst

Op de website van het Centre Pompidou in Parijs staat te lezen dat Akhtyrka een dorp in de Oekraïne is. Wassily Kandinsky en zijn kersverse vrouw Nina Andrejevskaja zouden hier de zomer van 1917 doorgebracht hebben na hun abrupt afgebroken huwelijksreis in Finland. Gelukkig heeft het H’Art Museum in Amsterdam, waar momenteel de tentoonstelling Kandinsky.

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Vermeer in het Rijksmuseum

Details of View of Delft, 1659-61, Mauritshuis To be seen during the Vermeer-exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 4th 2023. Thirty years ago it was on display during a well-visited retrospective exhibition in the Mauritshhuis in The Hague. Where will the next Vermeer-retrospective take place? In Vermeer’s hometown, Delft, thirty years from now?

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