Talks:

Mireia Freixa (University of Barcelona, GRACMON director)
"The triumph of 1900: Barcelona reinterprets Paris"

Jérémie Cerman (André Chastel Centre, Paris-Sorbonne University)
"The spread of French made Art Nouveau wallpaper in Barcelona"

Fàtima López (PhD at the University of Barcelona)
"Sources of Art Nouveau plant ornamentation: a Paris-Barcelona comparative study"

The "Gateway of Modernisme" autumn lecture series, to be held at the Güell Pavilions every Monday at 7pm between 19 October and 23 November 2015, will feature expert speakers in the field of Catalan Modernisme and Art Nouveau in Nancy and Budapest.

Free entrance - Limited seating - You must confirm attendance at:
modernisme@bcn.cat or (+34) 932 562 504
www.rutadelmodernisme.com

Click here to access the lecture series program.

The Egon Schiele Research Symposium will be held on 27 November at the Albertina Museum in Vienna and on 28 November at the Galerie am Lieglweg in Neulengbach.

Call for papers and registration until 5 October 2015: symposium@egon-schiele-jahrbuch.at.

Information in German. The English version will be available soon on the Symposium´s website

The exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau"  reveals the role that nature had in the Art Nouveau and how much the nature was the source of inspiration for the artists at the turn of 19th to 20th century.

The touring exhibition, now presenpresented in Glasgow, has been organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project "Art Nouveau & Ecology" (2010-2015) and supported by the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Commission. The exhibition comprises two identical concurrent exhibitions and has begun its journey to all partner cities in October 2013.

This exhibition is free.

The Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the Munch Museet of Oslo, will host the first major exhibition to be held on the Norwegian artist in Madrid since 1984. The presentation  will examine Edvard Much´s long and prolific career through eighty works by the painter, half of them from the collection of the Munch Museet.

Structured by themes, it will explore the representation of the human figure in various settings: the coast, the patient´s room, the abyss, the green room, the forest, night, the artist´s studio. In order to show the radical nature of his artistic language, the exhibition will study the interplay between flat and sinuous forms, the ambiguity of opposites, symbolic colour, the expressive deformation of the body and the use of experimental textures and engraving techniques. Edvard Munch will ultimately analyse the artistic strategies used by the painter to orient space towards a psychic dimension and convert his compositions into a lasting truth that symbolises the human condition.

Art study days: Edvard Munch

On 22 and 23 October 2015, the Museum´s Department of Modern Painting is organising art study days in connection with the temporary exhibition on Edvard Munch. Aimed at students and teachers, as well as the general public, they will take a new look at Munch´s work as well as vindicating his status as one of the founders of modernity.

For more information: http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_actividad/422

Discover the parallels between two iconic artists: Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch. Admire the many masterpieces from all over the world, including The scream by Munch and Starry night over the Rhone by Van Gogh in one spectacular exhibition.

Lectures:
From 8 November 2015 to 17 January 2016, the Van Gogh Museum is organising three lectures highlighting interesting aspects of the "Munch: Van Gogh" exhibition.
For more information: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/lectures

The exhibition showcases the use of hydraulic mosaic tiles, items that were intimately linked to Catalan architecture between 1890 and 1930. The show also helps to understand their origins, identify major manufacturers, analyse techniques and observe the evolution of these decorative pieces.

The exhibition "Only Those Who Fight Survive: L´École de Nancy and the Political and Social Questions of its Period" presents  l´École de Nancy through a heretofore unseen prism: that of the political commitment of Emile Galle, Victor Prouve and other members of the Art Nouveau movement in Nancy.

The relationship between art and politics is explained to a certain extent by the search for total and social art yet also by its historical context.
Firstly, visitors discover the particular dimension that Art Nouveau had in Nancy due to Lorraine´s convulsive history, the trauma that arose from losing territories annexed by Germany in 1871 and Nancy´s role as a border town and last bastion against the German threat. Then the show covers the decisive action of Émile Gallé, l´École de Nancy´s first president.
Several works illustrate his stance in favour of oppressed peoples such as the Armenians, Irish, or Romanian Jews. His commitment in the Dreyfus affair went beyond the arts. Here, we discover the intellectual Gallé and his public and political involvement. Victor Prouvé, who would succeed Gallé
as president of l´École de Nancy, had a diferent political sensibility, influenced by anarchism and his friend Charles Keller, an old communard. The exhibition reveals Victor Prouvé´s evolution and his ornamentation for buildings, in which his republican commitment is apparent. This led him to be elected municipal counsellor in 1912.
Finally, the last section covers the venture of the Nancy People´s University and People´s House. Members and sympathisers of l´École de Nancy joined his educational project and participated in several initiatives.

The show, which has received the certification of "Exhibition of National Interest"
from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, lets us discover the intellectual modernity of l´École de Nancy, which mobilised on issues that are still topical today.

The exhibition "Modernism. Art, workshops, industries" provides a complete overview of this movement focused on the so-called decorative and applied arts and crafts that played a larger role (the stained glass, wrought iron, ceramics, artistic carpentry ... ).