PULHEIM-STOMMELN.- On August 29, Daniel Buren will open the latest edition of the Stommeln art projects with his oeuvre “Multiplications, Work in Situ for a Synagogue.” The subtitle “in situ” – on site – which Buren bestow…
Dramatic Painting Capturing World War Two Horrors Acquired for Ben Uri
LONDON.- London’s Ben Uri Gallery has announced that it has bought a dramatic watercolour by distinguished German artist George Grosz. The painting captures the horrors of the Second World War. George Grosz (1893 –1959) is renowned for challe…
Dramatic Painting Capturing World War Two Horrors Acquired for Ben Uri
LONDON.- London’s Ben Uri Gallery has announced that it has bought a dramatic watercolour by distinguished German artist George Grosz. The painting captures the horrors of the Second World War. George Grosz (1893 –1959) is renowned for challe…
Painting by Egon Schiele Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum
VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
Painting by Egon Schiele Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum
VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
Painting Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum
VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
Resounding Success at this Year’s Art Nocturne Knocke
KNOKKE-HEIST.- This year’s 35th edition of the prestigious art and antiques fair Art Nocturne Knocke was a resounding success. No fewer than 11,950 art and antiques lovers flocked to the fair at the Belgian coastal resort of Knokke last week. Anti…
Per Kirkeby Creates Specific Work for Beulas Foundation’s Art and Nature Center
HUESCA, SPAIN.- Per Kirkeby studied Geology at the University of Copenhaguen and later he enrolled in the School of Experimental Art (‘Ex-School’) of Copenhagen, where he opted for the painting, the graphical design, the cinema in 8 mm and the performa…
Hirshhorn to Present Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective
WASHINGTON.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: p…
Astonishing Prices for Redpaths on Opening Day of Bonhams Scottish Sale
LONDON.- Bonhams Annual Scottish Sale got off to a flying start today taking over £1.25m during a morning of picture sales. Anne Redpath’s beautiful 1937 painting, ‘Still Life with Michaelmas Daises’ sold for an astonishing £134,000 we…