BALTIMORE, MD.- Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive director of the Roemer and Peliz…
Three Major German Museums Announce an Exhibition on the Art of the Enlightenment in China
BERLIN.- – In spring 2011 three major German museum bodies – the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich – will join forces with the National Museum of China …
Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie Displays Eighteen Works Returned in the Past Ten Years
BERLIN (AP).- A painting of the Florence skyline that hung in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin apartment throughout World War II and was missing for decades went on show Thursday in an exhibition of works returned to the collection of a major German museum. The e…
Gerald Scarfe: Heroes & Monsters at the German Museum for Caricature
HANOVER.- In 1979, the famous British rock band Pink Floyd released their album The Wall. To date, it has sold more than 30 million copies, making it the world’s biggest-selling double album. Following the huge success of this recording, the legen…
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 ha…
Marcin Maciejowski is the Winner of the 2010 Lovis Corinth Prize
REGENSBURG.- Marcin Maciejowski (*1974 in Poland) is the first Polish artist to win the Lovis Corinth Prize. To mark the occasion, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg presents, for the first time in a German museum, a major exhibition of work…
Wall Drawings by David Tremlett for the Gallery of Contemporary Art
HAMBURG.- With Drawing Rooms the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents the first comprehensive show of the artist David Tremlett in a German museum since 1992. For this exhibition, David Tremlett has taken over the entire third floor of the Gallery of Contempo…