To commemorate the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the Institut Mathildenhöhe is presenting the exhibition that will shed light on the importance of the Bauhaus and post-World War II architecture. The exhibition in 1901 by the Darmstadt Artists' Colony was the very first permanent exhibition of modern architecture in the world and it has influenced many exhibitions and urban planning projects ever since. It was mainly the colony members Joseph Maria Olbrich and Peter Behrens who presented new ideas in Darmstadt through their future-oriented architecture and holistic design and these were further developed by the Werkbund, which both of them co-founded, and ultimately by the Bauhaus. It is no coincidence that Bauhaus directors Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe both worked in the studio of Peter Behrens very early in their careers and witnessed how the architect fused handicraft, creative design and large-scale manufacturing. After 1945, the heritage of the Darmstadt Artist's Colony inspired the war-torn city to rebuild itself as a centre of modern architecture and design and these endeavours led to the construction of several "Meisterbauten" (Masterful Architectonic Creations) designed by such renowned architects as Max Taut, Otto Bartning and Ernst Neufert.

This installation is the first retrospective on the European continent of the Norwegian painter Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) in honour of the artist's 150th birthday. Sohlberg, who was a contemporary and friend of Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is best known for his major work Winter Night in Rondane, produced between 1899 and 1914. The painting still captures the soul of the Norwegians today and was voted the most popular painting in the country by citizens in the 1990s. This icon of Norwegian art, which has never been on loan since it was acquired in 1918 by the National Museum in Oslo, will be on show in Wiesbaden.

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is a Finnish national icon. From her early naturalistic style - honed during her studies in France - to her highly abstracted self-portraits, this exhibition will present Schjerfbeck for the first time to UK audiences.

Projected on all the surface of the Atelier des Lumières, the new digital exhibition immerses visitors in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. This new visual and musical production retraces the intense life of the artist, who, during the last ten years of his life, painted more than 2,000 pictures, which are now in collections around the world.

With 98 works on display by 68 artists, the exhibition seeks to analyse not only the place that pastel holds compared to traditionally venerated oil painting, but also the reasons that led different artists in the 19th and 20th centuries to turn to and reclaim this medium. Divided into 10 chronological sections, the show highlights the key moments and crucial figures in the rebirth of pastel during the first iteration of modernity, a time when this technique came to be considered an art in its own right.

The touring exhibition "Blue. The Colour of Art Nouveau" aims to explore the spirit of a period in which blue was a predominant thread. In the late nineteenth century, relating landscapes and the phenomena of nature to moods, so as to transmit the soul's hues and tonalities, ended up constituting a poetological aesthetic that became inscribed within the great movement of modernity, moving through Symbolism and witnessing the birth of the cinematograph.

Travelling exhibition "Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style" will be the first exhibition in the United States not only to showcase the seminal work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) but to locate his production in relation to the larger circle of designers and craftspeople with which he shared sources, stylistic features, and patrons.

By showcasing posters and paintings, sculptures, furniture and ceramics, the exhibition underscores the extraordinary artistic and artisanal blossoming that swept over and ultimately overhauled decorative taste at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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To commemorate  the 150th anniversary of Austrian-Japanese friendship, the MAK presents two exhibitions:  "KUNIYOSHI +: Design and Entertainment in Japanese Woodblock Prints" and "UKIYOENOW: Tradition and Experiment".

The first presentation is devoted to the late period of the ukiyo-e. The show's main spotlight is on one of the most important and innovative artists of the nineteenth century, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).  In contrast, "UKIYOENOW: Tradition and Experiment" opens up new dimensions in the contemporary treatment of the Japanese art form and poses the question of how far the different forms of production-traditional handicraft and digital print-and also the new context of global/transnational pop cultures are impacting the further development of the ukiyo-e.

Press Conference: Friday, 25 October 2019, 10:30 a.m.

The final exhibition before the Munch Museet moves to the new building presents, for the first time in history, works from all collections of the museum alongside each other. This is the last opportunity to visit the Mseum at its iconic building from 1963.

The show includes famous works by Munch, including The Scream, Madonna, Starry Night and The Kiss and other gems from artist like Amaldus Nielsen, Harriet Backer, Ludvig Ravensberg, Teddy Røwde, Jakob Weidemann and Johan Berner Jakobsen.