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2017 must-see art exhibitions: Europe, part II

First part of our review announced exhibitions at the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, the Tate galleries, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Now it’s turn to switch to the Albertina in Vienna, Museo del Prado and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Soon you can see there Egon Schiele retrospective, drawings and paintings by Raphael, Picasso, Lautrec, Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Spend 2017 art year in Europe!
2017 must-see art exhibitions: Europe, part II

Egon Schiele retrospective

Where: the Albertina, Vienna
When: 22 February — 18 June 2017
Egon Schiele. Mistress
Mistress
1915, 47×21 cm
The masterpieces of Egon Schiele are both passionate and ruthlessly blunt, as well as highly subjective and allegorical. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Schiele’s death, The Albertina is devoting a broadly conceived exhibition to the productive artist. Most of the works to be exposed are paintings and drawings from the Albertina’s collection, complemented by important loan works from Austrian and foreign museums and private collections.
The exhibition presents a unique perspective on Schiele’s artistic development, which was so abruptly terminated upon his sudden death at the age of 28.
Photo review and impressions of the exhibition in special material from ARTHIVE


  • Egon Schiele, Seated Female Nude
    The nude is the genre focused on the aesthetic aspect of the naked human body. The term traces its origin to the Latin nudus (“naked, bare”) and is cognate with the French nudité (“nudity”). Read more
    , Back View, with Red Skirt, 1914. Albertina, Vienna
  • Egon Schiele, Female nude
    The nude is the genre focused on the aesthetic aspect of the naked human body. The term traces its origin to the Latin nudus (“naked, bare”) and is cognate with the French nudité (“nudity”). Read more
    with green cap, 1914. Albertina, Vienna

Raphael

Where: the Albertina, Vienna
When: 29 September 2017 — 7 January 2018

The Albertina closes the following year with the first monographic exhibition of Raphael in Austria. Around 150 drawing and 20 paintings serve to represent all of the artist’s important projects and his creative life-periods: from his early Umbrian period (up to 1504) to his years in Florence (1504/1505−1508) and on to his Roman period (1508/1509−1520).
Raphael stands alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo as one of the most important masters in 





Raphael stands alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo as one of the most important masters in art history. As a painter and architect he was a true universal genius of the High Renaissance who constantly sought to strike a balance between naturalist imitation and idealisation.

Numerous works from the museum’s own possessions as well as from renowned collections afford a detailed impression of Raphael’s oeuvre, his thought processes and modes of work, from design to final composition.



Left: Raphael, Self-Portrait, 1505−1506. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Don’t miss the exhibition of drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, another Renaissance
The Renaissance is the period that began around the 14th century and ended at the late 16th century, traditionally associated primarily with the Italian region. The ideas and images of the Renaissance largely determined the aesthetic ideals of modern man, his sense of harmony, measure and beauty. Read more
genious. It is on from 8 September to 3 December 2017 at the Albertina and offers an overview of the entire graphic output made by the "second Hieronymus Bosch".
Pieter Bruegel The Elder. Idleness
Idleness
1557, 21.4×29.6 cm
Meanwhile The Holburne Museum in British city of Bath announces the unique exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty from 11 February to 4 June, 2017. A key work in the exhibition Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty will be Wedding Dance in the Open Air.

Visions of the Hispanic World. Treasures from the Hispanic Society museum and library

Where: Museo del Prado, Madrid
When: 4 April — 9 October, 2017
This exhibition presents around 200 works from the holdings of the Hispanic Society of America in Ne



This exhibition presents around 200 works from the holdings of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. It was founded in 1904 by Archer Milton Huntington (1870−1955), a passionate collector of Hispanic art. The Fund has become a home for the most important collections of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American art outside the Iberian Peninsula.

The exhibits that come to Madrid the following Spring include some of the most celebrated objects from the Hispanic Society’s collections. Among them are archaeological items, Islamic art and Spanish medieval art, works from the Spanish Golden Age, examples of Latin American colonial period and 19th-century art, and Spanish masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries.




Left: Francisco Goya, Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, 1797.

Renaissance
The Renaissance is the period that began around the 14th century and ended at the late 16th century, traditionally associated primarily with the Italian region. The ideas and images of the Renaissance largely determined the aesthetic ideals of modern man, his sense of harmony, measure and beauty. Read more
Venice. The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting

Where: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
When: 20 June — 24 September, 2017
In the summer of 2017 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum will present the real "parade of stars" in Madrid. Renaissance Venice comprises of the 16th-century Venetian masterpieces by artists such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto, loaned from major collections and museums.

Themes such as the importance of color, the observation of real life through the image of power and beauty and the destruction of the brushstroke and color in late works of this period are illustrated through portraits, pastorals, mythological themes and religious compositions. Together they reveal the evolution of Venetian painting, created in one of the world’s most beautiful cities.

Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Art, design and fashion

Where: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
When: 4 July — 15 October, 2017
Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885−1979), an artist of Jewish origin from Odessa, was a key figure in the Par


Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885−1979), an artist of Jewish origin from Odessa, was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Jointly with her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay, she undertook a fascinating artistic journey from contrasts of color to dissolving of form through light that defined abstraction.


Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Art, design and fashion is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in Spain. Curators are willing to reveal the full extent of her multi-disciplinary artistic practice. The exhibition will show the paintings and designs for clothes and textiles alongside her innovative collaborations with poets and set designers. A special attention will be given to the period when Sonia Delaunay-Terk and her family lived in Madrid, arriving there exactly 100 years ago.



Left: Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Simultaneous Dresses (Three Women, Forms, Colours), 1925. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid




Don’t miss the exhibition Masterworks from Budapest. From the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde that will be on display at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid from 21 February to 28 May, 2017. It comprises more than six dozens of works from the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and includes paintings, sculpture and drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Leonardo da Vinci.
From 17 October 2017 to 21 January 2018 the exhibition Picasso / Lautrec traces the fascinating relationship between early works of Pablo Picasso and that of his elder colleague, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Rousse in a White Blouse, 1889. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
  • Pablo Picasso The Frugal Meal, 1904. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Paris, fin de siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Their Contemporaries

Where: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
When: 12 May — 17 September, 2017
Guggenheim Bilbao will unite approximately 100 paintings, drawings, prints, and works on paper in the exhibition Paris, fin de siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Their Contemporaries. The display is meant to tell us about the most important French avant-gardes of the late 19th century, particularly the Neo-Impressionist, Nabi, and Symbolist movements. It was a time of political upheaval and intense cultural transformation, resulting in emergence of a broad spectrum of new artistic movements. Curators will analyze influence of these avant-grades, taking the most prominent artists of that period as examples, such as Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others.

Mad About Surrealism
Avant-garde is how modern art critics refer the general trend of new artistic directions that arose in world art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A very thin line separates it from the concept of “modernism”. Read more
Surrealism (Fr. surréalisme) is an avant-garde art movement of the first half of the twentieth century characterized by the fusion of reality with something else, but not oppositional. Surrealism is a dream which is neither real, nor surreal. The style is characterized by allusions and a paradoxical combination of forms, visual deception. In the paintings of the Surrealists hard objects and rocks often melt, and the water, on the contrary, hardens. Read more

Where: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam
When: 11 February — 28 May, 2017

This spring The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen will give its visitors the unprecedented opportunity to see the Surrealistic masterpieces from the four famous European collections. The majority of the works to be displayed at Mad About Surrealism — Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Miró… have rarely or never been exhibited publicly and will disappear behind closed doors again as the exhibition ends.
The exhibits will be loaned form the four legendary collections. Two private collectors are from Britain: the aristocratic poet Edward James (1907−1984) and the artist Roland Penrose (1900−1984) were friends with artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Max Ernst. The British collector Gabrielle Keiller (1908−1995) collected not only art works but also assembled an impressive library. The German entrepreneurs Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch started to collect Surrealist masterpieces in the 1970s and still continue to buy them now.
Writtern by Vlad Maslow on materials from official websites of mentioned galleries and museums.