Jean-François Millet -- one of the most influential artists of the 19th century with his depictions of toiling country folk -- is the subject of a free exhibition in just one room at London's National Gallery that opens on August 7. Millet: Life on the Land mainly features work from British museums, but has a star attraction in the shape of L’Angélus from the Musée d'Orsay. On until October 19. In eastern Germany, Chemnitz is one of this year's European capitals of culture, and one of the major exhibitions on their programme starts on August 10. Edvard Munch -- Angst in the Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz will recall, in part, a visit by Munch to Chemnitz 120 years ago. And, of course, there'll be a version of The Scream . Until November 2. On the other side of the country, a rather different offering at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn: an exhibition devoted to the German filmmaker Wim Wenders, creator of Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas , and marking his 8...
August tends to be a relatively thin month for exhibition openings, but we do have a couple of events to tell you about in London, as well as three in and around Berlin.
August 3 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Grinling Gibbons, Britain's greatest ever woodcarver, and appropriately it's the opening day of a touring exhibition to celebrate his legacy. Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making will run until August 27 at Bonhams in London's New Bond Street, featuring some of Gibbons' finest Baroque works, including his astonishing imitation-lace cravat. Entry is free. The show can then be seen at Compton Verney in Warwickshire from September 25 to January 30.
Just before this year's (or should it be last year's?) Olympics close in Tokyo, an exhibition opens looking back to how the previous games in the city brought Japan into the modern era with innovations such as the Shinkansen bullet train. Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow at Japan House London on Kensington High Street will run from August 5 to November 7 and include original posters, costumes and architectural models. This is another show to which admission is free of charge.
Back in 2019, we saw a fascinating exhibition at the Design Museum in Den Bosch about design in the Third Reich, which featured the work of artists like Arno Breker, one of Hitler's favourites and creator of sculptures for the Führer's chancellery. But what happened after the war to those painters and sculptors who worked for the Nazis? Find out at Berlin's Deutsches Historisches Museum from August 27 in 'Divinely Gifted': National Socialism's Favoured Artists in the Federal Republic. Until December 5.
Coming to the Museum Barberini in Potsdam on August 28 is Impressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-Garde, an exhibition delayed from last winter because of the coronavirus pandemic. With over 80 works, this show aims to place Russian art from around 1900 in the context of of western European modern art. On until January 9, the exhibition is being staged in cooperation with the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
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1964 Tokyo Olympics Official Poster, The Hinomaru (Sun) Flag. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum
Alexander Calder, Têtes et Queue, 1965, in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie/Reinhard Friedrich
Mikhail Larionov, Lilacs, 1904-5, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
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