The exhibition will include a series of some 200 works grouped in five main areas and comprising a very careful selection of some of the most emblematic works by this Barcelona painter.

The show´s narrative will be enriched by a very select group of works from an extremely notable repertoire of artists who served as his inspiration or exerted a certain influence in him. The inclusion of visual reference works by these painters, who influenced the inflections of his poetics, with figures such as Carolus-Duran, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Sargent, Degas, Bastien-Lepage, Whistler, Rusiñol or Sorolla, is reflected by the similar role of master that Casas played for such important artists as Torres-Garcia, Picasso or Julio Romero de Torres, who will also be represented by their work in the exhibition.

The exhibition will travel to CaixaForum Madrid and Palma de Mallorca throughout 2017.

The exhibition "Lluïsa Vidal (1876-1918)" will show all the artistic facets of this major painter, cartoonist and illustrator who belonged to the generation of young Catalan Modernista artists. Lluïsa Vidal was noted as a highly valued portrait painter for her ability to reveal the emotional state of the person portrayed.

The exhibition will be completed by a documentation section featuring family photographs, letters, photographs of works by the painter published in magazines, published books with her illustrations, reviews of her exhibitions in various newspapers of the time and the diploma awarded to the painter in 1907 by the city of Barcelona for one of her drawings.

The exhibition provides the chance to become better acquainted with the later paintings of Edvard Munch and his influence on the Danish artist Asger Jorn´s body of work. By focusing on Munch the painter, new perspectives can be found on the free, spontaneous and gestural aspects of Munch´s paintings as perceived by Jorn in the late 1940s

The museum is presenting for the first time a selection of works, including paintings, photographs and texts, that attest to the links of Santiago Rusiñol with the province of Girona.

The Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is preparing an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ramon Casas (1866-1932). The show will bring to light an interesting series of previously unseen visual works by the artist.

This exceptional collection of works by Casas that is conserved by the museum has recently been enriched by a very original, strange and unique addition: a series of 12 Chinese shadow puppets designed by Casas and cut and made by Josep Meifrèn, brother of the painter Eliseu Meifrèn and member of the circle of friends of Els Quatre Gats. This is a unique collection of its kind that establishes a clear relationship with modernity.

The exhibition will also include other visual elements such as posters, photographs, drawings, invitations and programmes, many of which have never been seen before and form part of the museum´s collection. All this artistic and documentary material will help to contextualise the origins of the recreational practices that symbolised the need for escape that Barcelona artists felt at the time, such as Chinese shadows, puppet shows or an interest in the circus.

The invention of photography in 1839 was both fascinating and horrifying to artists. While portraitists had good reason to fear a drastic shrink in their market, others soon discovered the multiple possibilities of the new medium.

The exhibition presents an opportunity to consider Franz von Stuck´s work in graphic art, painting, sculpture, and photography, both interrelated and as a whole, and to examine his wide impact on Viennese art. It fills a gap and sheds fresh light on fin-de-siècle Vienna and its productive links with Munich´s "painter prince" Franz von Stuck.

"Summer Idyll: Picturesque Views of California" is a glorious celebration of summer in the Golden State that combines works by California artists, contemporary and historic, painted over the last one hundred years.

The exhibition explores the extraordinary enthusiasm with which artists used the color woodcut technique in Vienna between 1900-1910. The installation presents outstanding loans from the great Viennese museums and institutions, as well as from estates and private collections.

Tate Britain presents the first major exhibition to celebrate the spirited conversation between early photography and British art. It brings together photographs and paintings including Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and British impressionist works.

This exhibition examines the connection between Edvard Munch's work and one of the truly great names in contemporary art - Jasper Johns. Never before has there been such a comprehensive exhibition of Johns' art in Scandinavia.

Featuring over 220 works, the exhibition takes visitors on a varied and multifaceted journey that recreates the elegant, precious and sensual tastes of the time through the creations of Alphonse Mucha.

Travelling exhibition.

This exhibition features over 230 works by Mucha, including a Masonic goblet and jewel designed by Mucha and original studies for Le Pater.

oincidiendo con el centenario de la muerte del artista, el Museu Nacional y el Museu d´Art Jaume Morera organizan una exposición antológica de Xavier Gosé, uno de los artistas catalanes más internacionales de principios de siglo XX.

La obra de Gosé se define entre el modernismo catalán y el art decó, y se inspira en a vida mundana de los cafés-concert, las midinettes, las prostitutas, la gente de los bulevares, en las carreras de caballos, los deportistas y en Montmartre. Su estilo refinado y elegante captó a la perfección la moda y las siluetas de la sociedad francesa.

The Belvedere will be devoting an exhibition to an unusual artist from the Vienna Secession, Max Kurzweil.

Kurzweil´s oeuvre contains excellent examples of all the avant-garde movements of his day, ranging from Naturalism and Impressionism to Symbolist works and even a remarkably early interest in Expressionism

The exhibition explores Anglada-Camarasa´s interest in Japanese art, which was shaped during his years in Paris. This interest is evident in his collection of Japanese prints and books, which will be displayed in relation to his work.

The exhibition focuses on the birth of the art of modern glassmaking in Austria between 1900 and 1937, a very lively period spanning the years between the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic.

Comprising over 300 works, mostly from the MAK and private collections, the show features glassware by the leading figures of Viennese Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Leopold Bauer, Otto Prutscher, Oskar Strnad, Oswald Haerdtl and Adolf Loos

This revealing, previously unseen exhibition on Ramon Casas focuses on the figure of Júlia Peraire, the painter´s wife and muse.

The exhibition will bring together approximately one hundred works, including paintings, drawings, letters, documents and photographs, alongside various period objects and furniture, to help understand all the different ways in which the artist viewed his wife throughout his lifetime. The exhibition´s curator is Isabel Coll Mirabent, one of the foremost experts on the figure of the painter Ramon Casas.

On the occasion of the donation of Victor Prouvé´s engraving tools by his heirs, the École de Nancy Museum aims to evoke the various engraving techniques that the artist used throughout his career. This dossier-exhibition brings together tools, plates and completed print runs to help us discover the artist´s creative process through his portraits, landscapes and scenes of local customs and manners.

An exhibition entirely dedicated to the graphic arts of the Belle Époque, with wonderful examples of Italian Liberty Style, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Futurism.

More than one thousand works by hundreds of famous artists will be on display.

The exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau"  reveals the role that nature had in the Art Nouveau and how much the nature was the source of inspiration for the artists at the turn of 19th to 20th century.
The exhibition is in three parts:

·    Eye of an Era examines artists´ fascination for nature, with scientific discoveries in the spheres of botany, zoology and oceanography, as well as developing evolutionary theory, and technical inventions such as the microscope, photography and film.

·    Nature´s Studio shows artistic experiments using natural and artificial materials as well as fresh techniques for creating new forms inspired by nature: lines, ornaments and structures, motifs and symbols.

·    The final section, Artificial landscapes, illustrates Art Nouveau interpretations of the seasons and natural elements: spring, earth, water, air, light, fire.

"The Nature of Art Nouveau" Organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project "Art Nouveau & Ecology" (2010-2015) and  supported by the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Commission.

The exhibition comprises two identical concurrent exhibitions.

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"The Palace of Craftsmen" is an exhibition of photographs of the Palau Güell taken by the photographer Ramon Manent that highlight, as if through a magnifying glass, the small great masterpieces complementing the architecture of this building that cannot always be found by visitors. The exhibition takes a creative approach and is accompanied by a unique and very revealing exhibition route prepared by curator Raquel Lacuesta.

The exhibition explores intellectual constellations and traditions in science, philosophy and art in the late Habsurg Monarchy, demonstrating a network of connections within an entire cultural region. The show illustrates the continuities and unique characteristics of art in Austria-Hungary.

The Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena City Council, Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Region of Murcia and Beltrí Commission 2012 are proud to present the International Congress. Art Nouveau in the Mediterranean Basin (CIMAM) 2016. The event will be held on 17, 18 and 19 November 2016 at the Faculty of Business Sciences at UPCT.

The CIMAM 2016 programme includes conference presentations by leading Art Nouveau experts at an international level, the presentation of announcements and posters on 17 and 18 November 2016 and a day of technical visits to buildings in Cartagena´s Art Nouveau Route. Also included in the Congress is an exhibition comprising photographs of Art Nouveau buildings and motifs in the exhibition hall of the Faculty of Business Sciences at UPCT.

15 June 2016 - Deadline for the delivery of abstracts

The exhibition aims to examine through a selection of 80 masterpieces the origins and evolution of Divisionism through the eyes of its main protagonists, among which included Giovanni Segantini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Giaccomo Balla, Angelo Morbelli, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Carlo Carrà. These artists influenced the renewal of Italian art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the emergence of Futurism.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with MART (Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.

On 3, 4 and 5 June 2016, Cor Eixample and the Barcelona City Council are holding a new edition of the Barcelona Modernista Fair. The Fair features many activities including guided tours, workshops, games and puppet shows for children, interactive automatons, a vintage cars show and a vintage steam toy-train ride, conferences on Modernisme, a ticket draw of free visits to Modernista buildings for those attending in period costume, period atmosphere and many more surprises. Municipalities and institutions with Art Nouveau heritage from around the world will be present at the Fair, plus the grand stalls of the Barcelona Modernisme Route and the Art Nouveau European Route.  This year the Fair is dedicated to the painter Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932).

As of March, the Casa Batlló is offering dramatised tours so that the whole family, both young and old, can enjoy and discover all the hidden corners and secrets of this wonderful work by Antoni Gaudí. The tours are guided by the "architect himself", as performed by an experienced actor embodying the Catalan genius at the time of his professional peak and splendour.

The dramatised tours take place on two Saturdays per month (12/19 March, 9/16 April and 14/21 May during its launch phase) with two tours per day, at 4pm and 6pm.

The tours last one hour and are offered in Spanish and English, with the later addition of Catalan.

The Museum of Catalan Modernisme of Barcelona is organising the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866 - 1932). The commemorative event includes a series of activities and exhibitions, including a large retrospective exhibition of this distinguished Barcelona painter that will fill much of the exhibition space with many of his popular works and others that have almost never been seen before, helping to provide an overview of Ramon Casas´s excellent work.

This public symposium organised by Glasgow Mackintosh in association with the GSA and Réseau Art Nouveau Network features speakers from the UK and wider Europe, plus panel discussions. The theme for the event is the conservation and restoration of historic interiors, in the context of current repair work at the GSA´s Mackintosh-designed building following a major fire in 2014.

View the programme of the event

As part of the UNESCO Worl Heritage Site nomination of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony on the Mathildenhöhe, the City of Science Darmstadt will organize - in cooperation with the German National Committee of ICOMOS and the Regional Office for Built Heritage Conservation in Hessian - a conference between 17 and 19 April 2016 with the working title of: "We have to build a town, a whole town." - The Darmstadt Artists' Colony on the Mathildenhöhe.

Following thematic sections are planned for the conference:
1. Sources and past history
2. Architecture and Exteriors
3. Interior design ("Raumkunst")
4. Reception and international effect

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of the artist, the Museu Nacional and the Museu d´Art Jaume Morera are dedicating a solo exhibition to Xavier Gosé, one of the most international Catalan artists of the early 20th century.

Gosé´s work swings between Modernisme and Art Déco, inspired by the daily life of concert cafés, midinettes (seamstresses), prostitutes, the snobs and flâneurs of the boulevards, horse races and sportsmen. His refined and elegant hand captured the fashions and silhouettes of the finest French fashion houses such as Poiret, Worth, Paquin, Redfern, Doucet and Vionnet, and influenced geometric Cubism, Persian inspiration and Russian ballets.

The artistic influences of Art Nouveau and Masonic symbolism will be on display on the occasion of the Grand Lodge 2016, the annual meeting of Masons of the Grand Orient of Italy, which this year addresses the issue of "The duties of man, the rights of the world", the main theme of the conference.

The show, curated by Andrea Speziali, provides an overview of the extensive cultural programme of the Grand Lodge and recovers some of the works of art related to esotericism and symbology.

Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition takes visitors on a varied and multifaceted journey that recreates the elegant, precious and sensual tastes of the time through the creations of Alphonse Mucha.

Travelling exhibition.

"Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty" explores the work of the artist, around the theme of beauty - the core principle underlying his artistic philosophy. The show will include over 60 works drawn primarily from the collection of the Mucha Trust, focusing on drawings, paintings, photographs and iconic posters, such as Gismonda, Mucha´s first poster designed for the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
Like artists of the British Arts and Crafts movement, it was Mucha´s belief that beautiful works of art should improve the quality of people's lives.

Within the new concept of modern art that was formulated at the end of the 19th century, the difference and hierarchy between the various artistic genres began to become less distinct. Graphic art consequently became the subject of enormous interest and experimentation on the part of painters such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard and Mucha, among others, a fact that also benefitted specialist illustrators who began to be seen as artists. In addition, technical innovations in printmaking which allowed for increasingly rapid methods of reproduction of higher quality and in larger print runs, combined with the increasing presence of advertising as part of contemporary culture, definitively broke down the previous boundaries which had confined graphic illustration to books and magazines and this medium now took possession of the street in the form of posters.

The international seminar "Art Nouveau-Modernisme: Paris-Barcelona" is organised by the SEC (Séminaire d´Études Catalanes) of the CRIMIC research group (Centre de Recherches interdisciplinaire sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains) at the Paris Sorbonne University and by the GRACMON (Research Group for the History of Art and Contemporary Design) of the University of Barcelona.
The activity examines contrasting perspectives on the Art Nouveau style from its triumph in 1900 through its decline, icons in both cities and certain Art Nouveau manifestations, such as wallpaper, plant ornamentation and fashion. Diverse specialists will be contributing, fomenting relationships between two of the most outstanding Art Nouveau centres in Europe.
The seminar includes the participation of Núria Aragonés, Fàtima López and Teresa-M.
Sala (GRACMON, University of Barcelona), Jérémie Cerman (Centre André Chastel, Paris- Sorbonne University), Mireia Freixa (director of GRACMON) and Eliseu Trenc (University of Reims).
"Art Nouveau-Modernisme: Paris- Barcelona" is scheduled in two series. The
first took place on 16 November 2015 while the second will be held on 8 February 2016 at the Centre d´Études Catalanes. This activity is the first which this institution, founded in 1977 with a triple vocation for university, cultural and scientific studies, has held on Art Nouveau. The Centre d´Études Catalanes hosts varied activities ? exhibitions, conferences, seminars and scientific discussions - on subjects concerned with Catalan history and culture taking place in the French capital.

This seminar is directed by Mònica Güell (director of the Centre d´Études Catalanes,
Paris -Sorbonne University) and Fàtima López (researcher at GRACMON).

The exhibition "Modernism. Art, workshops, industries" provides a complete overview of this movement focused on the so-called decorative and applied arts and crafts that played a larger role (the stained glass, wrought iron, ceramics, artistic carpentry ... ).

The exhibition "Only Those Who Fight Survive: L´École de Nancy and the Political and Social Questions of its Period" presents  l´École de Nancy through a heretofore unseen prism: that of the political commitment of Emile Galle, Victor Prouve and other members of the Art Nouveau movement in Nancy.

The relationship between art and politics is explained to a certain extent by the search for total and social art yet also by its historical context.
Firstly, visitors discover the particular dimension that Art Nouveau had in Nancy due to Lorraine´s convulsive history, the trauma that arose from losing territories annexed by Germany in 1871 and Nancy´s role as a border town and last bastion against the German threat. Then the show covers the decisive action of Émile Gallé, l´École de Nancy´s first president.
Several works illustrate his stance in favour of oppressed peoples such as the Armenians, Irish, or Romanian Jews. His commitment in the Dreyfus affair went beyond the arts. Here, we discover the intellectual Gallé and his public and political involvement. Victor Prouvé, who would succeed Gallé
as president of l´École de Nancy, had a diferent political sensibility, influenced by anarchism and his friend Charles Keller, an old communard. The exhibition reveals Victor Prouvé´s evolution and his ornamentation for buildings, in which his republican commitment is apparent. This led him to be elected municipal counsellor in 1912.
Finally, the last section covers the venture of the Nancy People´s University and People´s House. Members and sympathisers of l´École de Nancy joined his educational project and participated in several initiatives.

The show, which has received the certification of "Exhibition of National Interest"
from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, lets us discover the intellectual modernity of l´École de Nancy, which mobilised on issues that are still topical today.

The Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the Munch Museet of Oslo, will host the first major exhibition to be held on the Norwegian artist in Madrid since 1984. The presentation  will examine Edvard Much´s long and prolific career through eighty works by the painter, half of them from the collection of the Munch Museet.

Structured by themes, it will explore the representation of the human figure in various settings: the coast, the patient´s room, the abyss, the green room, the forest, night, the artist´s studio. In order to show the radical nature of his artistic language, the exhibition will study the interplay between flat and sinuous forms, the ambiguity of opposites, symbolic colour, the expressive deformation of the body and the use of experimental textures and engraving techniques. Edvard Munch will ultimately analyse the artistic strategies used by the painter to orient space towards a psychic dimension and convert his compositions into a lasting truth that symbolises the human condition.

Art study days: Edvard Munch

On 22 and 23 October 2015, the Museum´s Department of Modern Painting is organising art study days in connection with the temporary exhibition on Edvard Munch. Aimed at students and teachers, as well as the general public, they will take a new look at Munch´s work as well as vindicating his status as one of the founders of modernity.

For more information: http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_actividad/422

Discover the parallels between two iconic artists: Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch. Admire the many masterpieces from all over the world, including The scream by Munch and Starry night over the Rhone by Van Gogh in one spectacular exhibition.

Lectures:
From 8 November 2015 to 17 January 2016, the Van Gogh Museum is organising three lectures highlighting interesting aspects of the "Munch: Van Gogh" exhibition.
For more information: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/lectures

The exhibition showcases the use of hydraulic mosaic tiles, items that were intimately linked to Catalan architecture between 1890 and 1930. The show also helps to understand their origins, identify major manufacturers, analyse techniques and observe the evolution of these decorative pieces.