Tag: Paul Klee

  • With Graphic Intent

    With highlights from the Courtauld’s collection of German and Austrian modernist works on paper and some noteworthy loans, this is a must-see exhibition for anyone interested in early modernist expressionism and the graphic arts

  • Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider

    A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreements between the expressionist artists associated with the Blue Rider

  • Hanna Bekker vom Rath: A Rebel for Modern Art

    This richly documented show does justice to the feisty Bekker vom Rath, a German art collector, dealer and painter, who championed modern and contemporary art, even disobeying the dictates of the Nazi regime by organising secret exhibitions at her home

  • Adelaide Cioni – interview: ‘My work is about the origins of drawing and that visual or aesthetic relation we have to objects’

    The artist talks about her interest in patterns, and how these relate to something deep inside us, a universal alphabet, which evades meaning

  • Bridget Riley

    This exhibition of work by the octogenarian painter shows everything from her earliest work to her most recent explorations

  • London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ Art

    In 1938, a year after the notorious Nazi exhibition of “degenerate art” in Munich, a counter exhibition in London showed works by 65 of the defamed artists. Eighty years on, this retrospective looks back at that exhibition, its organisers, the…

  • Jeanne Mammen: The Observer. Retrospective (1910-75)

    Mammen wanted to be “a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others”. This retrospective, although stretching beyond the best period of her observational work in the Berlin of the 20s, offers visitors…

  • Anni Albers: Touching Vision

    Remaining committed to the Bauhaus ideals of uniting art and design as one field of form-production, Anni Albers’s pictorial weavings and later graphic prints promoted the egalitarian dissemination of artistic forms and prototypes

  • Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle

    From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that

  • Ida Kerkovius: “Meine Welt ist die Farbe” (“My world is colour”)

    Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany 2 February – 27 April 2014