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PICASSO. Marking the 50th Anniversary of his Death
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the Albertina is dedicating an exhibition to Pablo Picasso, the genius of the century, which allows visitors to experience the artist in all his diversity. In our short film, Albertina General Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder outlines what makes this artist so special.
HELMUT NEWTON LEGACY. At the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
Helmut Newton's photographs are provocative, daring, bold, feminine, sensual, sexual, seductive, powerful, glamorous, controversial and fetishistic. The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is now celebrating the 100th birthday of Helmut Newton. An exhibition-portrait from the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien.
FRANZ SEDLACEK. "Evening Landscape" & "Song in the Twilight". A picture review by Gottfried Helnwein
"Evening Landscape" and "Song in the Twilight" are two works by Austrian artist Franz Sedlacek, who belonged to the tradition of magical realism. In our film from the Albertina museum the painter Gottfried Helnwein discusses the artist's two works.
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #2 Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser
At the beginning of art in Austria after the Nazi tyranny and the war there was the „Vienna School of Fantastic Realism“. Friedensreich Hunderwasser on the other hand can be considered as the one Austrian post-war artist who gained international recognition and success early on. Our CastYourArt exhibition-portrait #2 from the ALBERTINAmodern opening exhibition is dedicated to Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
HELEN LEVITT. Street Photography in New York
Until January 27, the Albertina Museum in Vienna dedicates a retrospective to one of the exponents of street photography and chronicler of New York street life,
Man Ray - Unconcerned but not Indifferent
„Unconcerned but not indifferent“: the epitaph on Man Ray’s grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris reflects his complex and multilayered artistic attitude.
Paul Delvaux - Landscape with Lanterns
"One of the most beautiful and touching pictures of our collection" - that is how Albertina-Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder values LANDSCAPE WITH LANTERNS
Lee Miller - Man Ray and the Surrealist Photography
At the age of 24 Lee Miller moved from New York to Paris. She learned photography of Man Ray, she was his muse but soon she was his partner and a respected
Meret Oppenheim - Shaman of the archetypes
Shaman of the archetypes – the bizarre, humorous, erotic and poetic oeuvre of Meret Oppenheim is on display in the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna till 14 July 2013. An exhibition portrait produced by CastYourArt.
Arnulf Rainer - The Veiling
Together with Maria Lassnig he is considered the originator of Informal Art in Austria. His works are on display in the key museums all over the world.
Birgit Jürgenssen - Come on now Miss Juergennsen
Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles within her sociocultural environment of the 1970ies. By means of drawings
Bernhard Buhmann - Characters, Roles, Spaces
In 2007, he was the winner of the Cologne Art Award, one year later, he is nominated for the Strabag Art Award in Vienna. Bernhard Buhmann was born in 1979 in Vorarlberg.
Götz Bury - Illusions
Art can be critical of media and media criticism can be fun—that’s the message anyway from “dream manufacturer” Götz Bury’s art. In his Traumfabrik