: expressionism

Oslo Airport decided to celebrate Edvard Munch's birthday (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) by displaying the original works of the artist for the travellers. A specially designed installation is placed in the Gardemoen's new international terminal. It is the latest cultural experience available to travelers waiting at the airport.

In 2018, the Kunsthaus Zürich will conduct a large retrospective of the Oskar Kokoschka’s oeuvre, spanning all major career phases of the leading Expressionist artist of the 20th century.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist, whose life story could be studied in schools like the diary of Anne Frank. However, the biography of this Jewish girl from Berlin, who has lived only 26 years, is not meant for a fragile child's psyche, since it seems to have absorbed all the horrors that can happen to a person: the early death of her mother, the ominous…

On August 3, 1914, Germany declared war on France. From that day on, in the next four years the Parisian newspaper "Le Figaro" would lead a terrible account of the days. On November 11, 1918 the morning issue of the newspaper contained the message: "The 1561st day of War". Newsmen didn't know that day would be the last one, and the Parisians were leery of enjoying the signs of the end of the war…

The Munch museum gathered pictures of all the artist's drawings in a new database. Surprisingly different initial versions of Norwegian art icon Edvard Munch's signature work 'The Scream' could be seen after over 7,600 sketches, many previously unknown, were published for unrestricted use. The sketches show how 'The Scream' looked before the world-famous version.

These are not only Amedeo Modigliani's melancholic subjects that are special. His life – tragic, but hectic, and sometimes even wild – is also unique. Here we revive the brightest moments of his brief but eventful biography.

From Albrecht Dürer, Eugène Delacroix, Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir to Otto Dix and Emil Nolde: almost a third of about one and a half thousand works of art, hoarded by reclusive Cornelius Gurlitt, a son of a Nazi art dealer, in his appartments in Munich and Salzburg for many decades, are going on show in the museums of Switzerland and Germany.

“The Blue Rider” art association was one of the most stellar and impetuous, daring and short-life art groups in the XX century. It only existed for three years (1911 – 1914). At first, in an enthusiastic whisper, and later at the top of voice, they began talking about the synthesis of all arts and about subjectless paintings, the value of paintings by madmen and children, the self-sufficiency of…