Mona Lisa Leaves the Louvre (1911) On August 21, 1911, an amateur painter set up his easel near the spot where Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”—one of the most famous works of art in the world—hung in the Louvre. To his surprise, the mysterious woman with the haunting half-smile had vanished. French detectives searched for
Few members of EU Parliament protest sexual depictions of Jesus’ Apostles By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, May 06, 2023 European national flags in front of European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. | Getty Images Controversy has erupted in the European Parliament over a photography exhibition by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson that includes a
Born on April 18, 1889, in Remagen am Rhein into a Catholic family, Karl Nierendorf was educated in Cologne. He worked as a banker before World War I, but his career was disrupted in 1913 by the social upheaval in the Weimar Republic. One of his acquaintances, an art collector, introduced him to the Swiss-born German
The story of Varian Fry, a US journalist who helped some 2,000 of Europe’s imperilled artists, writers and refugees escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, has inspired the new Netflix series “Transatlantic”. FRANCE 24 takes a look at a hero who risked his life many times over before falling into relative anonymity. The new Netflix series “Transatlantic” dramatises the
It is no secret that Surrealism influenced the development of Abstract Expressionism. Martica Sawin’s rich study, Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School (MIT Press 1995), charted in great detail the significant cultural exchange that occurred between 1938 and 1947, when Parisian artists fleeing Nazi Europe made their home in Manhattan. However, what has
Men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus, Agamemnon I Exile has always been a powerful theme in myth and history: Adam was exiled from Eden, Moses from Israel, Dante from Florence. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the center of creativity in the arts, and many painters gravitated there, discovering new forms
The Milwaukee Art Museum has established the Isabel and Alfred Bader European Art Program Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund bolsters the Museum’s ability to serve as an essential civic, cultural, and educational resource for its community, including providing permanent support for the Museum’s Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art. Additionally, the gift supports
Thanks to a $4.4 million gift from Bader Philanthropies, the Milwaukee Art Museum has started an endowment fund to support its collection and exhibition of European artwork, including related scholarship. The Isabel and Alfred Bader European Art Program Endowment Fund, named for longtime MAM patrons, will provide permanent support for the museum’s curator of European
Portrait of Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi. Image courtesy of Vera Hartmann/13 Photo/Redux. Wolfgang Beltracchi, the now 72-year-old German-born artist and collector, is widely considered to be the most successful art forger in modern European history. In consort with his partner-in-crime and wife, Helene Beltracchi, he raked in millions by selling hundreds of knock-off works by
European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2023: Day 1 apparatus finals Men’s floor exercise1 Luke Whitehouse GBR 14.9002 Artem Dolgopyat ISR 14.6663 Milan Hosseini GER 14.2004 Harry Hepworth GBR 14.2005 Benjamin Osberger FRA 13.8006 Illia Kovtun UKR 13.7337 Lucas Desanges FRA 13.3668 Noe Seifert SUI 12.800 Women’s uneven bars results1 Coline Devillard FRA 13.8002 Asia D’Amato ITA