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ArtTalk X-mas Special: Discover the Innovative Charisma of the Impressionists!
Innovation is a huge buzzword today. What are the connections between innovation and art? How do visual artists push boundaries? Why were the Impressionists in their day considered to be such innovative rebels – and today they seem so tame and beautiful?
We’ll consider these and other questions in the special exhibition, “From Dürer to Van Gogh” in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Here masterpieces of the collection are placed vis á vis highlights of the outstanding Swiss collection of E.G. Bührle.
We’ll discover the astounding originality in works by Degas, Monet, Sisley and Cezanne. Be amazed by the innovative pairing of the cubist painting “The Violinist” by George Braque with a panel by Albrecht Dürer and much more.
Come join Karla the ArtTalks conversation for a Christmas ArtTalk special!
Dec. 15 at 10.30 and 18.30h
Wallraf Richartz Museum Köln
Sign up by Dec. 12: [email protected]
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ArtTalk in Museum Ludwig Nov. 3 at 10 + 18.30h

Who wouldn’t want to look glamorous at least once? Before Hollywood got so glittery, the Berlin photographer Karl Schenker, was glamming up famous women and men who came in droves to his studio on the Kurfürstendamm. As the “guru” for retouching, he created a certain look and made his society patrons (as well as favorite pets and female wax models!) look fabulous in high quality black and white images. This was in the 1920s, when the alluring power of commercial cosmetics and facial operations had just begun to exert their powerful fascination.
Schenker was a Jew who fled Europe, a commercial photographer with artistic ambitions and a man with a dark secret. The curator, Miriam Halwani presents ground-breaking research on this little known master after the museum acquired 100 of his photographs. A brief account of the genesis of photography and a fast forward to today’s ideal avatars will round off this talk on beauty and art deco photography.
more info: www.art-talks.de, contact Karla: [email protected]

The next ArtTalk on June 2 is on the multi-talented Fernand Leger! Living Art in Museum Ludwig Cologne!
The show Fernand Léger: Painting in Space highlights the quest of the artist to move painting off of the canvas into our lives and homes. He utilizes the impact of color, form and function to spur us forward, to make our lives change for the better. According to Léger, “let’s bring in color, it is as necessary as water and fire.”

Amazing how Léger’s experiments with large-scale architectural murals, rarely seen before in public, shape the space around them with energy and verve. Museum Ludwig’s international retrospective of one of the more influential modernists of our time, is a special show in a series of exhibitions to honor the Museum’s 40th anniversary. With over 170 works, including superb early films, fragile graphic work and theater costume designs, we’ll encounter a Fernand Léger who moves way beyond the silo of the tubular, cubist-like painted imagery he is known for, to an artist who strives for nothing less than the synthesis of the arts.
Museum Ludwig, Heinrich-Böll-Platz, 50667 Köln

Joan Mitchell Retrospective in Museum Ludwig. Huge panels, compelling dynamic work with color, fascinating life! ArtTalk on Jan.7 at 10 and 6:30 pm http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/did-joan-mitchell-have-the-finest-mind-in-modern-american-art

Did Joan Mitchell Have the Finest Mind in Modern American Art? | Big Think When artist Joan Mitchell was born in 1925, her father wanted a boy. He let her know that her entire life, leading her to seek psychiatric help. As much as that experience shaped her mind, Joan’s mind already set her apart, and set her on the…