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

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