GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT | GALERIE FRIESE BERLIN

Willi Baumeister, William N. Copley, Asana Fujikawa, Karin Kneffel, Thomas Müller, Hartmut Neumann, Claire de Santa Coloma, Cornelius Völker
September 14, 2024 - October 26, 2024

William N. Copley's painting "Garden of Earthly Delight" forms the starting point of the group exhibition of the same name at the Friese Gallery.
Copley (1919- 1996), who worked in the circle of Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp quotes Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights".
Copley adapts the theme in his usual ironic visual language to create a garden of earthly pleasures without the depiction of hell: there is swimming, rowing, playing, making music, flying, dancing on the globe - and all of this under the rule of women.

TOUR OF THE BAUMEISTER ARCHIVES and the restoration studio
Sun, October 20, 2024

1 - 2 p.m., 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., 4 - 5 p.m.

We will introduce you to the current art technology research project "Innovation or Replacement?" based on several works by the artist Willi Baumeister: What painting materials were available to him despite material shortages during the Second World War, and how did he use them to his advantage? You will also gain an insight into the working methods and collaboration between the painting and sculpture restoration course at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (Prof. Wibke Neugebauer), the Baumeister Archive (Hadwig Goez) and the restoration studio (Roxanne Schindler) at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

https://willi-baumeister.org/en/content/innovation-or-replacement

Meeting point in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart: limited number of participants
Information and registration: fuehrung@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de or T: +49 (0) 711 / 216 196 25 Registration required*
Participation fee € 3 / reduced € 2 (plus admission to the collection)

INNOVATION OR REPLACEMENT?
Art technological research on new painting materials between 1930 and 1955 using the example of Willi Baumeister (duration 2022-2027)

Using the example of the Stuttgart artist and academy professor Willi Baumeister (1889-1955), the research project investigates how the scarcity of traditional painting materials during the Second World War affected his choice of materials and the current state of preservation of his paintings. Of particular interest are the new materials introduced during the Second World War, such as early synthetic binders, new types of paint and painting supports such as hardboard: did he see them exclusively as temporary - and perhaps inferior - substitutes for traditional materials, or were they able to establish themselves as innovative materials in his art even after the end of the war? How did these material changes affect the state of preservation of his paintings?

PROCESSING THE WRITTEN ESTATE OF FRITZ SEITZ | Cooperation of University of Oregon, U.S.A. and Willi Baumeister Stiftung

The written estate and most of the works of the artist Fritz Seitz (1926–2017), a student of Willi Baumeister from 1950 to 1954, have been housed in the Willi Baumeister Foundation since 2015. Seitz's unique and innovative approach to the subject of Color, which he developed from the 1960s onwards, significantly contributes to the field.

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GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT