A new museum devoted to the great Czech artist Alfons Mucha opens its doors in the centre of Prague in 2025. The home for Mucha's artistic legacy in the capital of the Czech Republic is the recently restored eighteenth-century Savarin Palace. Situated in the heart of historic Prague, the Mucha Museum promises not only to be a new cultural landmark in the city on its own merits, but also the first step in developing the ambitious Savarin Project: a large urban development directed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick for Crestyl developers. This will interconnect several historic buildings in a 15,000 square-metre complex that hosts cultural centres, commercial areas, open courtyards and green spaces. The project will also include a space to become the bespoke permanent home of Mucha's monumental masterpiece The Slav Epic.

The new Mucha Museum is to be a permanent space in which to display selections of works from the Mucha Trust Collection's rich holdings. Its inauguration in February 2025 will present the new exhibition "Mucha: Art Nouveau & Utopia", featuring ninety works from the collection, including paintings, posters, drawings, books and photographs. The show explores Mucha's artistic and spiritual journey from his most popular Art Nouveau poster designs through to the creation of The Slav Epic and the ideological vision that underpinned it. It has been conceived by the curator of the Mucha Foundation, Tomoko Sato, and staged by AI DESIGN, a Czech architectural studio that has collaborated with the Mucha Foundation on previous occasions.

For more information:www.mucha.eu

This August, CaixaForum Macaya is organizing guided tours of its headquarters, Casa Macaya (1898), an architectural jewel by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, with sculptural works by his regular collaborators Eusebi Arnau and Alfons Juyol. A tour of the two façades, the entrance, the courtyard, the staircase, the old coach houses and the noble room, where the history of the uses of this building on Passeig de Sant Joan is also explained. Visits are available in Catalan, Spanish and English.
The Macaya House is part of the association Art Nouveau European Route.

August 2024
English, Monday at 7 p.m
Catalan and Spanish, Wednesday at 7 p.m
Reservations and information at: https://caixaforum.org/ca/macaya/p/visites-guiades-a-l-edificio_a164840020

Casa Batlló (1904-1906), by Antoni Gaudí, has begun the first comprehensive restoration of the building's rear façade and its courtyard, the private garden of the Batlló family.

Gaudí conceived the rear façade as a vertical garden. It symbolises a flowering plant that climbs from both sides to meet at the top with an explosion of Mediterranean flowers, represented using the trencadís technique.

With this restoration, Casa Batlló will recover the original splendour of its materials, including ceramic and glass brittle, wrought iron, wooden windows and stucco walls. Many elements of the balustrades and balconies will also be restored to their original state and other missing elements will be reproduced.

Casa Batlló has promoted different initiatives to immerse visitors in this restoration and raise international awareness of it.
For further information: www.casabatllo.es/en/restoration

The Gustav Klimt Foundation is holding the Second Gustav Klimt Symposium in March 2024. Adressed to established scholars as well as young researchers in the field of cultural history research on Gustav Klimt and the period "Vienna 1900" as well as to young scholars with ongoing or completed master's theses and dissertations in the context of the conference topics.

The symposium, which is to be held in Villa Toscana (Gmunden) on March 23 and 24, 2024, will focus on the following research areas related to Gustav Klimt and his artistic environment:

·Portraying and collecting: Gustav Klimt and the Wittgenstein Family
·Dining, dancing, saloning:Turn-of-the-Century Salon Culture in the Big City and on Summer Retreats
·Networking and corresponding:Artists and Collectors in the Salzkammergut
·Nature and garden:Garden architecture in the country house and the town villa

The submission deadline is October 1, 2023!

www.klimt-research.com/en/call-for-papers/

In 1973, the Art Historian Karl H. Bröhan opened a private museum in the Dahlem neighbourhood of Berlin.
A passionate collector and great connoisseur of Art Nouveau and the Berlin Secession, Bröhan donated his collection to the city of Berlin in 1981, on his 60th birthday. Two years later, the Bröhan Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism moved to its present location in the Charlottenburg Castle ensemble. It became an official Berlin city museum in 1994.

The Art Nouveau collection is the heart of the Bröhan Museum, including relevant works of French Art Nouveau, the English Arts & Crafts movement, German and Scandinavian Jugendstil and the Viennese Secession. The porcelain and glass collections are especially rich, featuring pieces from the most important German, French, and Scandinavian manufacturers. An outstanding section of the Bröhan collection relates to the Berlin Secession, including paintings and prints by artists such as Hans Baluschek, Karl Hagemeister, Walter Leistikow, and Willy Jaeckel.

www.broehan-museum.de