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

The stables of the Güell Estate have been open to the public once again since 1 June. This work by Antoni Gaudí, also known as the Güell Pavilions, can now be visited again after having closed its doors in 2018 to begin restoration work.

Those visiting the site can do so in two different ways: a self-guided or guided tour. The latter lasts approximately 50 minutes and can be conducted in Catalan, Spanish or English. Opening hours are from 10 am to 4 pm all year round (except 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 6 January).

Built between 1883 and 1887, the Güell Pavilions were among the first buildings to be completed in their entirety by Antoni Gaudí as commissioned by his patron, Eusebi Güell. The work involved designing the gardens of the latter's summer palace - today's Palau Reial - and constructing the entrance gates along the entire length of the grounds, as well as the two pavilions leading to the estate and a belvedere. Gaudí employed an extensive range of geometries and materials to fulfil the commission and applied his trencadí (broken tile) technique for the first time.

The site's owner, Barcelona University, granted the Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life (IMPUiQV) use of the Güell Estate's stables and it has been comprehensively restoring Gaudí's work, garden walls and garden itself since 2015. The first phase of the restoration has now been completed and this has led to the reopening of the site to the public.

This first stage of restoration has involved the main entrance and wall on Avinguda Pedralbes, where a new entrance has been created to preserve the Dragon Gate, as well as the installation of a new ticket office with accessible services. Maintenance and protection work has also been carried out on elements in poor condition. Work will begin on refurbishing the gatekeeper's lodge in October and the restoration of the stables pavilion will begin in 2023. The site will remain open if possible when these works begin.

For more information: rutadelmodernisme.com

The Barcelona Modernisme Fair 2022 is about to commence! You can already reserve your place to attend its opening presentation and talk.

Wednesday 25 May 2022:

7 pm - Presentation

7.15 pm - Talk entitled "Anglada Camarasa, great international painter" by Dr Francesc Fontbona, member of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) and Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. Prior reservations are required at: https://bit.ly/3kJeAf4

The session will also be streamed live in Catalan and English and can be viewed on the Barcelona Modernisme Route's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/rutadelmodernismedebarcelona

CaixaForum Macaya
Sala Macaya
Passeig de Sant Joan, 108
Barcelona

The computer specialist Valentí Pons has posted online the third update of his General Inventory of Catalan Art Nouveau (known as Modernisme locally), a catalogue that this lover of art and Modernisme has been compiling over a period of several years until becoming a point of reference. It currently includes some 15,000 buildings, primarily in Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain, as well as works produced by these artists abroad. The inventory contains both works that have been preserved and works that have disappeared, such as buildings, pantheons or shops. Click on the following link if you want to consult this useful and comprehensive tool: https://www.arquitecturamodernista.cat