Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” 1907
Neue Galerie
Sunday August 13, 2015 11:00AM – 12:30PM
Meeting Place: Neue Galerie
1048 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028
Neue Galerie Tour
The Neue Galerie is located on the Museum Mile, a portion of Fifth Ave where many museums are conveniently placed together for tourists to see (MET, Guggenheim, etc.). The collection of Neue Galerie New York covers a range of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, and photographs created in Austria and Germany between 1890 and 1940.
During our visit we will view Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold and Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917.
Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold: This exhibition coincides with the opening of the historical drama “Woman in Gold,” starring Helen Mirren as Adele Bloch-Bauer’s niece Maria Altmann, and Ryan Reynolds as lawyer Randol Schoenberg. The Weinstein Company is set to release the film in U.S. theaters on April 3, 2015. The film is based upon the incredible true story of how Altmann, working in collaboration with Schoenberg, successfully sued the Austrian Government for the return of five Klimt paintings seized by the Nazis from the Bloch-Bauer family townhouse in Vienna during World War II.
Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917: This exhibition is dedicated to modernist movements in German and Russian art at the beginning of the 20th century. Their development was parallel and often intersected.
This is the first exhibition at an American museum to focus exclusively on the important artistic links between these two countries, featuring works by artists Natalia Goncharova, Erich Heckel, Alexei von Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mikhail Larionov, and Gabriele Münter, among others.
This visit will be guided by Dr. Jihey Kim, a PhD candidate in the art history program at the Graduate Center, City University on New York who is currently teaching history of art, twentieth-century photography, and East Asian visual culture at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Montclair State University and Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
For more information about the museum tours please contact info@ahlfoundation.org
Image and description taken from http://www.neuegalerie.org/.
