Exhibition programme 2014 Exhibition programme 2014-2016

Exhibition programme 2014 Exhibition programme 2014-2016

Exhibition programme 20142014-2016
Arnulf Rainer Retrospective
3.9.2014 - 8.2.2015
His revisions developed in the 1950s made the artist Arnulf Rainer, born in 1929 in Baden near
Vienna, known throughout the world. The Albertina honours the internationally renowned artist on
the occasion of his 85th birthday with a comprehensive retrospective, in which important stations of
his complex artistic development are presented through key works.
Rainer's intensive search for new artistic paths, as well as his fascinating strategies and
experimental processes make him one of the most influential living artists of the present.
Arnulf Rainer
Müde Pose I, 1975
Öl auf Fotografie auf Holz
Albertina, Wien
Arnulf Rainer
Schwarze Rinnen, 1974
Öl und Kohle auf Fotografie, gekratzt, auf Holz
montiert
Albertina, Wien
Arnulf Rainer
Schranken, 1974-75
Ölkreide, Öl auf Fotografie auf Holz
Albertina, Wien
Joan Miró – From Earth to Sky
12.9.2014 - 11.1.2015
With his imaginative pictorial motifs, Joan Miró is one of the most popular artists of the
20th century. The Albertina is dedicating a solo exhibition to the Catalonian artist containing
around 100 paintings, drawings and objects, which strives to emphasise the poetic quality of the
famous Surrealist.
Miró's painting is characterised by a sense of lightness and spontaneity. He looks upon the world
with a carefree, almost childish fascination for all things. His unmistakable pictorial language is as
magical as it is universal. Moons, stars and comets, eyes and insects, birds and women populate his
paintings and are among the most recognisable elements of his art. Miró's works provide insight
into his poetic perception and interpretation of the original, of that which is actually essential in
things, the world and the universe.
Joan Miró
Verwandlung, 1936
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Joan Miró
Frau vor der Sonne, 1949
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Joan Miró
Vögel und Insekten, 1938
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Degas/Cézanne/Seurat – Masterworks from the Musée d’Orsay
30.1. – 3.5.2015
The selection of some 200 drawings develops the oxymoron and the paradox of “dream archives”
through the demanding and original perspective of Werner Spies. Throughout the inextricable forest
of drawings, the exhibition is based on the theme of inwardness and invites us to lose ourselves in
the introspective portraits, fantastical images, dream landscapes, abysses, mazes, nocturnes and
visions drawn by artists from the second half of the 19th century: Degas, Redon, Moreau, Daumier,
Millet, etc.
Paul Cezanne
La montagne Sainte Victoire, 1900-1902, Paris, musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Tony Querrec
Carlos Schwabe
La Mort et le fossoyeur, 1900, Paris, musée d’Orsay,
conservé au musée du Louvre, legs Michonis, 1902,
© Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN / Patrice Schmidt
Elaine Sturtevant. Drawing Double Reversal
14.2. – 17.5.2015
The Court Painters of Archduke Johann
27.2. – 31.5.2015
With the exhibition ‘The Court Painters of Archduke Johann’, the Albertina shows 150 masterpieces
of Austrian watercolour painting. The works were commissioned by Archduke Johann (1782-1859),
who employed several artists, including Jakob Gauermann, Matthäus Loder and Thomas Ender. Their
task was to produce depictions of the Alpine regions, above all the dukedom of Styria. Thus in 1802 a
high-quality collection of nearly 1,500 sheets was created. It contains primarily veduta – city views –
but also depictions of folk costume and views of early industrial sites. Of particular charm,
moreover, are the pictorial descriptions of events from the life of Archduke Johann – above all the
famous story of his love for the postmaster’s daughter from Aussee, Anna Plochl.
The exhibition presents outstanding pieces from this important collection, which to this day has
remained in the ownership of the Archduke’s descendants, and has been made available to the
general public in this unrestricted form for the first time.
Thomas Ender
Großglockner mit Pasterze, 1832
Privatbesitz
Thomas Ender
Konstantinopel vom Derwisch-Kloster gesehen, 1837
Privatbesitz
Drawing Now
22.5. – 30.8.2015
Lee Miller
3.6. – 4.10.2015
Feininger - Kubin
4.9.2015 – 10.1.2016
Worlds of the Romanticism
25. 9. 2015 – 10. 1. 2016
The exhibition focusses on a variety of very different phenomena of the "Romantic" period at the
beginning of the 19th century on the basis of select masterpieces. Besides works from Caspar David
Friedrich, masterpieces from Carl Blechen, Francisco de Goya, Ferdinand Olivier, Karl Friedrich
Schinkel, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Alfred Rethel and William Turner will be shown.
Starting from the cosmic world concepts of a Philipp Otto Runge and the transcendental,
symbolically charged landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, core themes of the Romantic period,
such as the discovery of the subconscious and the unfathomable, as well as the search for
infiniteness are illustrated in the European context. The curve will extend to the movement of
Catholic Romanticism originating from the Vienna Academy, in which an entirely new conception of
the world is drafted based on Christian ideas.
From Chagall to Malevich – The Russian Avant-garde
26.2. – 26.6.2016
Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection
Permanent
Dates are subject to changes