THE NEW IS HARDLY NEW .......Chapter 8

Before I took the plane there was one last museum that I would take it.  It is  what they describe as the "New Pinacothèque" with a collection from the 15th to the 20th century. I was mainly interested as you can imagine by the 20th but frankly when I get there, there were so many paintings which I had already seen before, that the stroll was nice, but no more...


What was fun was how my visit started

Erwin Wurm 1954-) Untitled1991

Erwin Wurm 1954-) Untitled1991

I discovered his work in Melbourne when I was there some years ago and found him very funny.
He is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg, Austria. Since the late 1980s, he has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures, in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture. He seeks to use the "shortest path" in creating a sculpture — a clear and fast, sometimes humorous, form of expression
Wurm was really the last person I would have thought of being in this particuar museum. It made for a good start before this ....



Wilhelm Von Kobell (1766-1855) On Gaisalm 1828

Rudolf Belling (1886-1972) Head in Brass 1925 




 I would have placed this sculpture as being even more modern than it is and next to the other two paining from Kobell and Von Max, it seemed a little out of place. Looking at that lesson in Anthropolgy - I'm glad it's a doll......
Gabriel Von Max (1840-1915) Lessons in Anthropology 1900

through different centuries


Honoré Daumie 1808-1879; Don Quijote 1868

Daumier - Ratapoil 1850

 Sometimes 19th century can seem so modern.....
Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) Lake Walchen 1919



until I came to the 20th.

and to begin with Gerhard Richter whom I liked immensely and have shown you other works of his......

Gerhard Ritcher (1932-) Abstract Painting 2004

Gerhard Ritcher (1932-) Abstract Painting 2004


Guther Uecker (1930-) Nails on canvass and wood 2013 - But is this art? 

George Grosz 1893-1959) Man and Woman 1926


Edouard Manet  1832-1886 : Lunch in Atelier 1868 - and so famous





Toulouse Lautrec 1864-1901: 1882 - this surprised me





Paul Cézanne 1839-1906: The Railway Cutting, around 1870

Henri van de Velde 1863-1957 Garden in Kaimthout 1892

Van Gogh 1853-1888: Sunflowers 1888

Van Gogh 1853-1890: View of Arles 1889
- we all know it !




Max Klinger 1857-1920: Elsa Asenijeff 1900- very strange

Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 : Margaret Stonborough -Wittengenstein 1905

Egon Schiele 1890-1918: Agony 1912

Van Gogh : The Weaver 1884 - a very early painting






I started all these visits with Otto Dix - so I will finish them as well....
Otto Dix (1891-1969) Mother and Child - by now you may recognize his style?












My visit had come to an end. The trip back to Paris was uneventful. My head swimming with images, artists, periods and names.....It has taken me some time to write all this up and I definitely have not all posted at the same time, leaving sometime a week before a second chapter went on the Blog.  I was off to London at once - but as a tourist and even I felt as if I could give "my artists" a little rest before London and then Marseille. ......




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