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Tate Liverpool Until 15 Oct 2017 Tate Liverpool presents the faces of Germany between the two World Wars seen through the eyes of painter Otto Dix (1891–1969) and photographer August Sander (1876–1964). Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 brings together two artists whose works document the glamour and misery of the Weimar Republic, a time of radical extremes and political and economic upheaval. Portraying a Nation, which exhibits Dix and Sander as a pair for the first time, reflects a pivotal point in Germany’s history, as it introduced democratic rule in the aftermath of the First World War. The period was one of experimentation and innovation across the visual arts, during which both artists were concerned with representing the extremes of society, from the flourishing cabaret cul...

Neue Galerie New York June 29-September 25, 2017 http://www.neuegalerie.org/content/richard-gerstl#3395 Richard Gerstl Semi-Nude Self-Portrait 1902-04 Oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna Richard Gerstl G rinzing 1907       Neue Galerie New York is presenting "Richard Gerstl," the first museum retrospective in the United States devoted to the work of the Austrian Expressionist (1883-1908). This exhibition is co-organized with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and will be on view at the Neue Galerie through September 25, 2017. Gerstl was an extremely original artist whose psychologically intense figure paintings and landscapes constitute a radically unorthodox oeuvre that defied the reigning concepts of style and beauty during his time. The longstanding secrecy surrounding Gerstl’s dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preceded his death, only further magnify the legend that has grown around this lesser known, b...

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 27 May to 17 September 2017 Auguste Renoir, Two women, walking to the right, c. 1890, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (former collection Koenigs) Edgar Degas, Nude study of jockey on horseback, seen on the back, 1834 – 1917, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (former Collection Koenigs) Paul Cézanne, Rooftops of l’Estaque, c. 1878 – 1882, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (former collection Koenigs)       Edgar Degas, Dancer with Contrabass, 1880, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Legacy Vitale Bloch 1976       Georges Pierre Seurat, Landscape at Sunset, c. 1882 - 1883, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen       Edouard Manet, Study with five prunes, 1880, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Former Collection Koenigs. The Impressionists, whose loose brushstrokes, bright colours and light effects brought about a revolution in painting around 1870, were also extremel...

Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries 2 November 2017 – 7 May 2018   This autumn, Tate Britain will bring together over 100 beautiful works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and others in the first large-scale exhibition to chart the stories of French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the Franco-Prussian War. The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904) will map the artistic networks they built in Britain, consider the aesthetic impact London had on the artists’ work, and present instantly recognisable views of the city as seen through French eyes. Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) Leicester Square 1901 Oil paint on canvas 805 x 648 mm Coll. Fondation Jean et Suzanne Planque (in deposit at Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence) Photo: © Luc Chessex The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London will look at French painters’ keen observations of British culture and social life, which were notably different to the café culture found in Paris. Ca...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  July 22–November 5, 2017 This exhibition presents a selection of the MFA’s exceptional holdings of works by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), the great American impresario of photography at the turn of the 20th century. Featuring 36 photographs, the exhibition showcases fine examples of his New York views, portraits and photographs that Stieglitz took at his family’s country home at Lake George.   Alfred Stieglitz's “The Terminal”1893 Alfred Stieglitz “The Steerage” 1907 Alfred Stieglitz “From the Shelton, Looking West,” 1934   The New York views reveal the artist’s lifelong interest in the urban city, from his early explorations of the picturesque effects of rain, snow and nightfall to later ones that focus on the inherent geometry of modernity’s rising architectural structures.  Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait (4) , 1918. Photograph, gelatin silver print. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection—Gift of the Georgia O’...