I very much enjoy the little pieces of art that are being published by the search engine www.google.com on certain occasions such as Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) birthday. Vincent was born on 30th March, 1853, in Zundert (Southern Netherlands).
The Netherlands are located at the North Sea, west of Germany and seperated from Great Britain by the English Channel. The English Channel actually connects the Atlantic Ocean in the West with the North Sea in the East.
Logo of 30th March, 2005
For comparison: Normal Logo
Vincent Van Gogh dies on 29th July, 1890, after having shot down himself two days before.
The first exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum in 1939 was called Art of Tomorrow.
On Wednesday, May 31st, 1939, the museum opened under the programmatic name Museum of Non-Objective Art, belonging to and being financed by the Guggenheim Foundation. It was located at 24 East 54th Street, Manhattan, New York.The exhibition was organized by its director and curator Hilla Rebay (1890-1967).
There was a catalog of the show being entitled Art of Tomorrow, too.
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Munich (State Capital), Murnau (see photo) and the area of Kochel (all located in the Federal State of Bavaria) were important focal points of expressionism in Southern Germany.
Franz Marc and others came to Murnau in 1908. The creative atmosphere there and the blue skies inspired all artists to a high degree.
Other focal points of expressionism in Germany were Berlin and Dresden (both being located in Eastern Germany with Berlin being the German capital). Die Brücke, another important artists association was founded in Dresden.
In December of 1911 Wassily Kandinsky also published the important work Über das Geistige in der Kunst in German language.
In 1946 an English translation was edited by Hilla Rebay (director and curator of the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.) under the title On the Spiritual in Art.
Expectation: I haven't read the book so far but from the hints I've gathered I expect it to explain no less than why it is more important to feel rather than to see. So, I think I've got to do some research. The results will be published below some time later.
Results: (...)
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In 1909 an artists association called the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (New Artists Association Munich) was established in Southern Germany. Munich is - as you know - the State Capital of Bavaria, one of the most southern situated German Federal States. Members of the Association were - among others - Paul Klee (1879-1940), August Macke (1887-1914) and Franz Marc (1880-1916).
In December of 1911, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Gabriele Muenter (1877-1962), Franz Marc (1880-1916), Alexej Javlensky (1864-1941) and Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) presented their own works under the name of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in an exhibition at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser (Modern Gallery Heinrich Thannhauser) in Munich. The gallery belonged to the Munich art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser.
In 1912 Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc published an almanac also entitled Der Blaue Reiter.
Also in 1912 Der Blaue Reiter had their second exhibition at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich (see that catalog from the homepage of Michael Golz).
The group name Der Blaue Reiter was possibly chosen from W. Kandinsky's and F. Marc's love for horses and the color blue.
(Another important Munich art dealer was Franz-Josef Brakl (1854-1935), who opened his art gallery Brakl's Kunsthaus in 1913.)
Until the year 1914 the artists of Der Blaue Reiter developed the kind of painting we now call expressionism.
In 1914 World War I appeared on stage, grinning sneeringly from its ugly face and hitting these creative creatures with its iron fist, demanding the highest and most superfluous prey.
What do the Cirque du Soleil and the Guggenheim Museum have in common? The Cirque du Soleil wants to reinvent the circus genre on a higher more spiritual and fabulous level. Guy Laliberté, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from Montreal, Canada, started the Cirque du Soleil in 1984. He currently heads a team of about 10 creatives. The Cirque du Soleil is an international company with talents from all over the world and performances in Europe, America and Asia. 
A L E G R I A
Directed and written: Franco Dragone
Costumes: Dominique Lemieux
Set: Michel Crete
Choreography: Debra Brown
Music composer: René Dupéré
Lighting: Luc Lafortune
Sound design: Guy Desrochers I watched Alegría lately for the first time on German TV. The show actually came out in 1995. The artists in the arena are highly professional body artists and also choreographed into detail. They seem to be neither man nor woman. And that's what makes their art so similar to the abstract art of the Guggenheim Museum, so sort of "non-objective". They embody pure and strong feelings just as the Guggenheim paintings do. The respective human creator is pushed back. One aspect though: For both acts, be it paintings or artists performances, you still need the human element. You can never come off very far from or deny your human roots.
Non-objective painting: If you shouldn't know what that means it's allright. I just learned it, too. If you don't wonna keep the expression in mind, that'll be allright, too. Just watch a picture of its kind and you'll understand what's it about.
Non-Objective was meant to be a translation for the German word gegenstandlos. In fact, it indicates art that doesn't show pictures of real people or objects of the real world such as machines, flowers.
Instead, it assumes that an artist uses all his creative and physical senses - but his visual sense - to create some emotional subjective piece of art, giving emotional statements without using his mouth so to say.German painter Hilla Rebay (1890-1967) came to the US in 1927. Soon she got aquainted and close with Solomon R. Guggenheim and became his art advisor. She was convinced that the above defined gegenstandslose art was the way art should express itself. Therefore she inspired Guggenheim to collect it. (Some of her own pictures can be found with Artnet)She supervised Solomon Guggenheim's collecting activities and in 1937 led the establishement of the Guggenheim foundation. She succeeded in opening up the Museum of Non-Objective Art on Wednesday, May 31, 1939 in a prior automobile showroom on 24 East 54th Street, Manhattan, New York. The gallery space was rented and Hilla Rebay was in fact the curator and director of the museum. The architect for the conversion into a museum was William Muschenheim (1902-1990).
In 1943, she contacted architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) from Wisconsion to design a new museum for the collection. In 1947 the collection moved to a townhouse on 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th street) not far from the Central Park. William Muschenheim was again the architect for the conversion into a gallery. It is said that he was also asked to take part in the design of the new Guggenheim museum but he declined.
In 1949 Guggenheim died. In 1951 Hilla Rebay resigned as director of the museum but stayed connected to the museum as trustee. It is said that her resignation was pursued by Guggenheims's son, Harry Guggenheim (1890-1970).
WW II, Guggenheim’s death, and discussions with the building commission further delayed the construction of the new Guggenheim Museum. Finally, in 1956 the townhouse on 1071 Fifth Avenue was demolished and in 1957 construction of the new museum began. Its architect Frank Lloyd Wright died in April of 1959.
A few month later, in Oktober of 1959, the now (re)named Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, opened its doors.
Well, this is a little art shop in Münster, the comfy German town I live in. As you can see, we have the world in our shop windows.
I enjoy the look of that Christo art. Wish I could have seen the project in Central Park on my own. Well, it's a real luxury just going to New York for an art project. But... allright... people do things for lesser reasons.
On Wednesday, May 31st, 1939, the museum opened under the programmatic name Museum of Non-Objective Art, belonging to and being financed by the Guggenheim Foundation. It was located at 24 East 54th Street, Manhattan, New York.
Munich (State Capital), Murnau (see photo) and the area of Kochel (all located in the Federal State of Bavaria) were important focal points of expressionism in Southern Germany.
In December of 1911 Wassily Kandinsky also published the important work Über das Geistige in der Kunst in German language.
In December of 1911, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Gabriele Muenter (1877-1962), Franz Marc (1880-1916), Alexej Javlensky (1864-1941) and Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) presented their own works under the name of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in an exhibition at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser (Modern Gallery Heinrich Thannhauser) in Munich. The gallery belonged to the Munich art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser.
