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MARCH – SEPTEMBER 2014 Exhibitions WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM & FONDATION CORBOUD museenkoeln www.museenkoeln.de MARCH – SEPTEMBER 2014 Exhibitions WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM & FONDATION CORBOUD Obenmarspforten, 50667 Köln 7 March to 15 June 2014 Claude Monet, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 221 - 21119 Liebermann’s “Rasenbleiche” (the bleachfield) Rouen cathedral; Fax: +49 (0) 221 221 - 22629 (the vanished washerwoman) the west portal [email protected] An abandoned washing trough is the only evi - in dull weather, www.wallraf.museum dence pointing to the disappearance of the young 1892, woman. The trough is at the centre of the “Rasen - oil on canvas, Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. bleiche” by Max Liebermann, but the washer - Musée d ´Orsay, first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. woman who the artist had originally created for Paris the painting has disappeared without trace. Using Public tours: Wednesday 4.30 p.m., X-ray and infrared photography, preparatory draw - Sunday 11.30 a.m., 3 p.m. ings and the original painting, this exhibition tells See Museumsdienst (Educational service) a story of disappearance and emergence. for group guided tours Peter Paul Rubens, self portrait with the Mantuan circle of Bus: Rathaus or Gürzenich, tram: Heumarkt friends, c. 1604, oil on canvas, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 7 May to 17 August 2014 & Fondation Corboud Rubens, Du & Ich. Freundschaftsbilder (Rubens, you and me. Images of friendship) What is our concept of friendship in the age of Facebook and other social networks? The partici - Upcoming event: until 4 May 2014 pants of this unique project look into the concept 26 September 2014 to 18 January 2015 Western painting from the 13th to the 19th Die Zeichnungen des Giulio Cesare of friendship in bygone ages using Ruben’s group Die Kathedrale. (The cathedral in century. Early Cologne panel painting; Dutch Bedeschini – (Treasures from the Jesuit col - portrait “the Mantuan circle of friends” before pos - Romanticism, Impressionism and modern art) and Old German panel painting from the late lection: Bedeschini’s drawings) (print room) ing for a photo shooting surrounded by their Caspar David Friedrich did it, and so did Rodin, Middle Ages and the Renaissance; 17th cen - Cut and paste has become a matter-of-course friends. The six best photos will be exhibited Picasso, Warhol and Gursky. Claude Monet even tury Flemish and Dutch painting, Italian and procedure in our digital age. But even in earlier to gether with the Rubens painting. did it 33 times. They were all inspired by the Spanish baroque painting, 19th century paint - centuries artists used this method. Giulio Cesare www.rubensprojekt.wallraf.museum grace, greatness and symbolical power of ing, including German Romanticism, German Bedeschini (1583-1625) was a master of cut and famous cathedrals to create wonderful works of and French Realism and Impressionism. paste. He edited his drawings by cutting out seg - 23 May to 10 August 2014 art. This exhibition traces the history of this picto - 19th century sculpture. Miniatures, drawings ments and repasting them, or by pasting new Max Klinger: Opus II – Rettungen Ovidischer rial motif from the Romantic period to the pre - and prints. designs on to his old compositions. Opfer (saving Ovidian victims) (print room) sent day. MUSEUM LUDWIG Heinrich-Böll-Platz,-50667 Cologne until 13 July 2014 28 June to 5 October 2014 Tel.: +49 (0) 221 221 - 26165 Oscar Tuazon. Alone in an empty room Unbeugsam und ungebändigt: Fax: +49 (0) 221 221 - 24114 Wood, metal, stone and concrete are the materi - (Intractable and untamed) [email protected] als Oscar Tuazon uses in his works. Inspired by Documentary photography around 1979 www.museum-ludwig.de the aesthetics of do-it-yourself and by the history In times of major social upheaval photography of art and architecture, his constructions are becomes an important medium. As a representa - Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. located between sculpture and architecture. They tion of reality it has a direct effect which Roland first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. are created in outdoor or indoor spaces and are Barthes, the theoretician of photography, in at first sight both bulky and useless. Many, how - “Camera Lucida” published in 1979 described as Public tours: www.museum-ludwig.de ever, can be played on, can be given a different “untamed”. The exhibition brings together photo www.museenkoeln.de/museumsdienst function and thus used. series by fifteen photographers and artists. Train, bus, subway: Dom/Hauptbahnhof Oscar Tuazon (born 1975 in USA) is interested in creative processes. He regards collective manual 28 June to 5 October 2014 work, endeavour and communication as part of Pierre Huyghe, Untitled, 2011-2012, Courtesy of the Das Museum der Fotografie: Eine Revision his work. The project at Museum Ludwig occupies artist; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris; (The Museum of Photography: A Revision) two floors of the large staircase where the visitor Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo © Pierre Huyghe For decades a phantom – a museum for photo - encounters disparate architectural elements of a © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2014 graphy - has haunted art supplements and panel private house. discussions. “We need one”, say the advocates. “Really?” opponents reply. The collector Erich 11 April to 13 July 2014 Stenger (1878-1958) regarded photography as Pierre Huyghe products of a technology, never as an art form. A figure skater sketching abstract forms on a rink works and projects. The artist creates a kind of Nevertheless, his vision was a presentation in Art of the 20th and 21st Century of black ice, a white dog with a pink paw making eco-system from objects and installations, the form of a museum. At an early stage he its way through display rooms, ants and spiders photo graphs, films, drawings, performances and argued for a museum of photography for which Highlights of the collection: which are permitted to reside discretely in certain living creatures with its own rhythm of life. he collected systematically and drew up a German Expressionism, Russian Avant- corners – the French artist Pierre Huyghe (born Organised by Centre Pompidou, Musée National detailed plan of how it should be arranged. garde, Surrealism, Picasso, Pop Art, 1962 in Paris) invites visitors to go on a journey d’art modern, Paris in conjunction with Museum Today his collection is part of the Photographic Contemporary Art (1970s to the present), of discovery through his works of the last twenty Ludwig, Cologne and the Los Angeles County Collection of Museum Ludwig – that is, of a prints and photography. years. The exhibition brings together over fifty Museum of Art. museum of art. RÖMISCH-GERMANISCHES MUSEUM The Romano-Germanic Museum 27 June to 19 October 2014 Roncalliplatz 4, 50667 Cologne 14 AD – Römische Herrschaft am Rhein Tel.: +49 (0) 221 221 24438 and 211 22304 (Roman rule on the Rhine) Fax: +49 (0) 221 221 24030 The cataclysmic defeat of the military comman - roemisch-germanisches-museum@stadt- der Varus in the Teutoburger Wald hills in 9 AD is koeln.de considered one of the biggest catastrophes in the www.museenkoeln.de history of the Roman Empire. Yet, Emperor Augustus did not abandon his plans to establish Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Roman rule in the parts of Germania east of the first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Rhine. He sent Germanicus, his great-nephew, across the Rhine with reinforced troops. Their Public tours offensives were planned and commanded from Sunday 11.30 a.m. Near Canopus, Hadriansvilla, Tivoli, Tibur, Italy, 2009 Cologne. The death of Augustus in 14 AD – 2000 See Museumsdienst (Educational service) © Alfred Seiland years ago – saw a turning point in Rome’s policy for group guided tours vis-à-vis Germania. Under Augustus’ adoptive son and successor Tiberius, troops along the Train, bus, subway: Dom/Hauptbahnhof until 30 March 2014 Rhine front threatened Rome with open rebellion. Alfred Seiland – Imperium Romanum Germanicus’ loyalty towards Tiberius, who was Photographic exhibition his adoptive father and Roman Emperor, averted Alfred Seiland is among the leading contempo - a military insurgence. This exhibition shows civil rary photographers. In his complex works he dis - and military life in Cologne and neighbouring European prehistory and prehistory of the tils moments of perfect composition and uses settlements and military camps during the early Rhineland. History of Roman art, culture and colour in a painterly fashion. The epic photogra - imperial period. Recent archaeological finds from urban settlements. Largest collection of phy of this master of large-format technique Cologne raise many new questions regarding life Roman glass and pottery worldwide. occasionally makes people smile, more often in this early imperial city. The finds testify to the European and German jewelery from classical than not, however, it causes dismay because dynamic development of Cologne as a regional antiquity and the migration period. Frankish again and again it is a testimony to the destruc - power centre on the fringes of the Roman Miniature portrait of Emperor Augustus, green glass, 2nd to finds from Cologne and the Rhineland. tion of our ancient heritage by human beings. Empire. 3rd decade of 1st century AD, presumably from Italy, Römisch-Germanisches Museum RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST MUSEUM Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum until 27 April 2014 Cultures of the World Made in Oceania: Cäcilienstr 29-33, 50667 Cologne Tapa – Art and Social Landscapes Tel.: +49 (0) 221 221 31356 Fax: +49 (0) 221 221 31333 How do James Cook, the Bounty mutineers and [email protected], www.museenkoeln.de/rjm about 15 million people in Oceania connect? By a unique fabric, made from the bark of trees. The Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. exhibition presents masterpieces from the muse - Thursday 10 a.m.
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