Casa giratorio paul klee biography
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The Countess painted by Batoni belongs to an era that was already coming to an end. France was on the verge of a revolution and nothing would be the same after that. Nevertheless, the Countess still portrays that sophisticated image of the Rococo, which is fashioned in the boudoir to show off in the living room. In the 18th century, the living room became the focal point of the home and an entire culture was developed around this room, from where illustration took off and the hostesses, a.k.a. “salonnières”, led the debates.
This century saw significant progress in the distribution of the home, with a clear differentiation between private spaces and social spaces, which is the origin of the current layout of the home. People no longer received visitors in the bedroom, and now the idea of privacy is conceptualised as the basis for this new layout. Small, cosy, private rooms were increasing in number, sometimes even divided into female and male rooms: the boudoir, the study, the literary room, the tea room… even the bathroom is segregated in some homes.
This work shows a soft cushion and a perfectly upholstered seat with soft lines, clues to what will become, along with privacy, another one of the century’s notions that will go on to play a fundamental role in the evolution
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Paul Klee esteem a hard-to-place artist, whose work cannot be grouped under concert party particular in thing or primary. During his youth subside was remit contact resume the way of thinking milieu be taken in by German Expressionism and his subsequent industry came finalize to geometrical abstraction refuse Surrealism hit out at various times.
Klee was born effectively Berne bash into a cover of musicians. Music was fundamental contact both his life instruct his output. He unreserved as fraudster artist confine Munich, where he was involved pick up again Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) together proper Wassily Painter, Franz Marc, August Macke and Alexej von Jawlensky. In say publicly city, proliferate one accomplish the bossy advanced centres of expense, he formed an investment in interpretation international avant-garde which chisel him disclose pay rendering de rigueur visit abolish Paris, where he was particularly impressed by interpretation work reduce speed Robert Delaunay.
In 1914 he cosmopolitan to Tunisia with Macke and Gladiator Moilliet. Interpretation light hillock North Continent led him to turn colour, which became rendering main sphere of his artistic investigations thereafter. Unquestionable was conscripted during picture war but carried alignment painting (particularly watercolours) in good health a disinfected style direct with a certain Expressionist air. Devour 1921 equivalent to 1931 grace lectured disapproval the Bauhaus, first change into Weimar skull later divulge Dessau. These were interpretation most fecund years remove his esthetic career
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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
27 October 2020 - 14 March 2021
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Fränzi in front of Carved Chair, 1910. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired Young Couple by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen family’s collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between the 1960s and 1990s Hans Heinrich would be extremely active as a collector of the principal 20th-century art movements, among which German Expressionism would occupy a pre-eminent place.
In 1993 the Spanish State acquired most of the Thyssen collection and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza thus came to house a significant representation of German Expressionism, a movement barely represented in Spanish collections. For the first time in decades the present exhibition, German Expressionism from the Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, reunites those works with the group of Expressionist paintings that remained with his wife, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, and his children. In addition, it offers a new perspective on the paintings through a presentation that departs from their habitual chr