Speaking of coins and medals, Glanz des Hauses Habsburg:Die Medaillen der römisch-deutschen Kaiser und der Kaiser von Österreich 1500 bis 1918 opened yesterday at the Bode-Museum in Berlin, and will run until 1 June. Thanks Staatliche Museen zu Berlin!
Link to the Exhibition Page
The Specifics:
Glanz des Hauses Habsburg: Die Medaillen der römisch-deutschen Kaiser und der Kaiser von Österreich 1500 bis 1918
Bode-Museum Coin Cabinet
Museumsinsel, Berlin/Mitte
Berlin, Germany
29 January - 1 June 2009
1.30.2009
1.28.2009
Münzen und Medaillen
Mints of the Habsburg realm find their modern iteration in Künker.de, a universe of original coins and commemorative medals from the German lands and beyond. Naturally, they specialize in early modern stuff.
Link to Künker Münzen- und Goldhandel
Link to Künker Münzen- und Goldhandel
Beduzzi in Brno
Grand Staircase and Entrance Hall of Kinsky Palace, Vienna, Austria
Only in Central Europe and Stockholm do the solander boxes burst with designs envisioning a totalized interior decoration, where the post-Berninesque unity of painting, sculpture, and architecture thrives on paper, as in life. Earlier this week, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, emptied its solanders to mount Antonio Maria Beduzzi: The Bolognese Decorator and Austrian Aristocracy. The exhibition centers on sketches, finished drawings, and various invenzione of the expatriate interior decorator, who was especially active in Moravia. Curator Zdeněk Kazlepka frames the work in the context of Austrian aristocratic patronage, with particular focus on Beduzzi’s work for the Liechtenstein family.
Beduzzi, like Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, enjoyed the luck of living in the age when his occupation’s reputation as a fine art reached its zenith. And yet, the artist lost the chance to realize his most ambitious plans. Austrian architect Johann Lucas Hildebrandt, not Beduzzi, won the commission to build the latter’s design for the staircase at Palais Kinsky in Vienna. Antonio Maria Beduzzi contributes to our picture of the artist by presenting his unadulterated visions, and even in Moravia, it’s a rare sight indeed.
Link to the Exhibition Page
The Specifics:
Antonio Maria Beduzzi: The Bolognese Decorator and Austrian Aristocracy
23 January 2009- 7 June 2009
The Moravian Gallery
Governor’s Palace (Kabinet)
Moravské náměstí 1a
Brno, Czech Republic
1.27.2009
Colophon
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Template: Minima (created by Douglas Bowman 2004)
The banner is my own photograph, taken in June 2008 on a street in the first district of Vienna. I think Annagasse, but I’ll have to return in order to confirm that. All images are culled from my own photography and digital collections or are otherwise cited and credited to an alternate source via the presence of an attendant link.
*Thanks to The Art History Blog [http://arthistory.we-wish.net/] for inspiring a colophon!
Description; Sidebar Title; Post Footer Font: Trebuchet
Template: Minima (created by Douglas Bowman 2004)
The banner is my own photograph, taken in June 2008 on a street in the first district of Vienna. I think Annagasse, but I’ll have to return in order to confirm that. All images are culled from my own photography and digital collections or are otherwise cited and credited to an alternate source via the presence of an attendant link.
*Thanks to The Art History Blog [http://arthistory.we-wish.net/] for inspiring a colophon!
Hans Rottenhammer: Bohemian Edition
Until August 2008, German painter Hans Rottenhammer (1564-1625) had never inspired an exhibition devoted solely to his own oeuvre. The artist’s historiographical fortunes changed dramatically when the Weserrenaissance-Museum at Schloß Brake in Lemgo, Germany decided to address the situation. Hans Rottenhammer: Desired, Forgotten, Rediscovered precipitated an overwhelmingly positive response among specialists and the general public alike. Now, from 12 December 2008 to 22 February 2009, the exhibition will reach a new audience at the Sternberg Palace location of the National Gallery in Prague.
Link to Exhibition Site
Catalogue Specifics:
Heiner Borggrefe, Lubomir Konečný, Vera Lüpkes, Vít Vlnas (ed). Hans Rottenhammer - begehrt, vergessen, neu entdeckt [Hans Rottenhammer - žádaný - zapomenutý – znovuobjevený; Hans Rottenhammer: Desired, Forgotten, Rediscovered] Ausstellung im Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloß Brake bei Lemgo (17.8-16.11.2008) und in der Narodnígalerie Prag (11.12.2008-22.2.2009), Munich, 2008.
Swiss Deluge at Sotheby’s
Perpetual rivals Christie’s and Sotheby’s have elected to vie on 28 January for what money is left in market for Old Master artworks. The coinciding sales would present me with a sitcom-esque dilemma if I had oodles of cash to burn on early modern Central European works. My paddle would leap for the Silesian painting at Christie’s [see my entry on 24 January] but the drawings auction at Sotheby’s would present an almost overwhelming array of options. The first fifty-three works of the auction hail from Central Europe, mostly Switzerland, thus comprise about a third of the total 162-lot sale. Unfortunately, the entire event went under my radar until today, so I can only announce the single remaining viewing time and the auction itself, at:
1334 York Avenue at 72nd St, New York, NY
Tue, 27 Jan 09, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM [viewing time]
Wed, 28 Jan 09, 10:00 AM [sale]
Link to Online Catalogue
1334 York Avenue at 72nd St, New York, NY
Tue, 27 Jan 09, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM [viewing time]
Wed, 28 Jan 09, 10:00 AM [sale]
Link to Online Catalogue
1.26.2009
Book-Spree | Buchzechtour
Behold, the best German-language bibliography of Central European courtly architecture on the web…Vielen Dank, Herr Dr. Hoppe!
Link to Stephan Hoppe’s Literaturhinweise Page
Link to Stephan Hoppe’s Literaturhinweise Page
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