Leipzig - City of Music and the Arts | Discover Germany
Located in the German state of Saxony, the city of Leipzig has almost half a million inhabitants and a multifaceted past and present. Renowned composers Felix Mendelssohn and Johann Sebastian Bach both left their influence on a city also known for the visual arts. Leipzig-born painter Neo Rauch counts as one of contemporary art's most successful figures. One of Leipzig's newest attractions is Gondwanaland in Leipzig Zoo. Named after the prehistoric supercontinent Gondwana, it takes visitors on a journey through natural history in Europe's biggest tropical biosphere. Rare animals dwell among numerous tree and plant species in an enclosed area bigger than two soccer pitches. They include Germany's only Komodo dragon, the world's largest type of lizard. For more go to
The Leipzig Phenomenon
Contemporary art exhibition in Budapest. The paintings arrived from the formes east german city of Leipzig, where a relatively new, and world famous art movement has evolved. One of the exhibition's greatest celeb artist is Neo Rauch. The fourty-something german painter will soon have another show of his works in MoMa New York as well.
Leipzig, Germany: 20th-Century History
More info about travel to Germany: In Leipzig, several sights offer travelers a fascinating look at Germany's 20th-century history. Visit the Contemporary History Forum and Stasi Museum in the Runde Ecke to learn the 44-year story of communism in East Germany, and finish with a stop at the place that played a pivotal role in the people's fight for freedom: the St. Nicholas Church.
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Leipzig’s artist studios
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Places to see in ( Leipzig - Germany ) Museum der Bildenden Kunste
Places to see in ( Leipzig - Germany ) Museum der Bildenden Kunste
The Museum der bildenden Künste is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. On 7,000 square meters of display area, 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphical works are shown. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity.
The museum dates back to the founding of the Leipzig Art Association by Leipzig art collectors and promoters in 1837, and had set itself the goal of creating an art museum. On 10 December 1848, the association was able to open the Städtische Museum in the first public school on the Moritzbastei. There were issued approximately hundred gathered and donated works of (at that time) contemporary art.
Through major donations including Maximilian Speck von Sternburg, Alfred Thieme and Adolf Heinrich Schletter the collection grew with time. In 1853, businessman and art collector Adolf Heinrich Schletter donated his collection under the condition that the city build a municipal museum within five years. Shortly before the deadline expired the museum was inaugurated on 18 December 1858. It was located on the Augustusplatz and was designed by Ludwig Lange in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Today, the Gewandhaus is located at its location. From 1880 to 1886 the building had been for the ever-growing collection extended by Hugo Licht. At the beginning of the 20th century, Fritz von Harck donated a part of his collection to the museum.
In 1937 the Nazis confiscated 394 paintings and prints mainly of Expressionism in the propaganda campaign Degenerate art. In the night of 4 December 1943, the building was destroyed by a British air raid. Much of the inventory had previously been brought to safety.
In the mid 1990s, the city decided to give the museum back its own building. On 4 December 2004, exactly 61 years after the destruction of the Städtischen Museum on Augustusplatz, the new museum opened at the former Sachsenplatz (Saxony Square). The rectangular museum building cost 74.5 million euros and was designed by the architects Karl Hufnagel, Peter Pütz and Michael Rafaelian.
Today's collection includes approximately 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphic sheets. It includes works from the Late Middle Ages to the present, focusing on Old German and Early Netherlandish art of the 15th and 16th century, Italian art from the 15th to 18th century, Dutch art of the 17th century, French art of the 19th and German art from the 18th to 20th century.
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Megalopolis - Stimmen aus Kinshasa: Ausstellung in Leipzig (contemporary art from Congo)
Impressions of the exhibition Megalopolis - Voices from Kinshasa from 01.12.2018 to 31.03.2019 at the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig... read more in German:
Impressionen der Ausstellung Megalopolis - Stimmen aus Kinshasa vom 01.12.2018 bis 31.03.2019 im Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig.
Die Hauptstadt des Kongo ist ein Moloch – und zugleich das kreative Zentrum Zentralafrikas. Dessen vitale Kunstszene stellt das Grassi-Museum erstmals ausführlich vor: ein heroischer Kraftakt voller schillernder Reize, dem man kleine Mängel gerne nachsieht.
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Germany's Dresden and Leipzig
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | Check your local public television station for this Rick Steves’ Europe episode or watch it on Saxony, part of the former East Germany, remains a secret to most travelers. We’ll visit the two great cities of the region: the capital city of Dresden, with the opulent palaces and art treasures of the Wettin dynasty, and Leipzig, with its Bach heritage, a massive monument to the day Europe beat Napoleon, and museums remembering its communist heritage.
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Leipzig International Art Programme
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Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839. Teil 2 von 1930 bis heute (photo exhibition)
Impressions of the exhibition Leipzig. Photography since 1839 from 27.02.2011 to 15.05.2011 at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Museum of the City's History and the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Part 2 from 1930 to the present... read more in German:
Impressionen der Ausstellung Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839 vom 27.02.2011 bis 15.05.2011 im Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Stadtgeschichtlichen Museum und
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. Teil 2 von 1930 bis heute.
Fotografie- als Stadt- als Welt-Geschichte: Drei Museen präsentieren ihre Bilderschätze. «Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839» ist ein faszinierendes Panorama über zwei Jahrhunderte, das nur am Ende etwas ausfranst.
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Exhibition: Human, All Too Human, Leipzig 2013 - introduction
Curator Francis Mallett gives an introduction to the exhibition 'Human, All Too Human' at the Werkschau gallery in the Spinnerei cultural complex in Leipzig, Germany. The exhibition runs from 23 June - 21 July 2013.
This landmark show is the largest exhibition of the artist's work to date, recognizing a number of cultural and biographical connections between Lenkiewicz and Leipzig. His Polish-born Jewish father was a horse trader in Saxony before escaping just prior to World War II. According to family tradition Lenkiewicz's great grandfather was court painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria. His great grandfather's portrait hung in the Jewish hotel in London run by his parents where Lenkiewicz grew up. Encouraged by his mother, Lenkiewicz became fascinated by the great figures of nineteenth century German culture, in particular, the work of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose phrase 'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (Human, All Too Human) lends its title to this exhibition.
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Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839; Teil 1 bis 1929 (photo exhibition)
Impressions of the exhibition Leipzig. Photography since 1839 from 27.02.2011 to 15.05.2011 at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Museum of the City's History and the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Part 1 from 1839 to 1929... read more in German:
Impressionen der Ausstellung Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839 vom 27.02.2011 bis 15.05.2011 im Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Stadtgeschichtlichen Museum und
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. Teil 1 von 1839 bis 1929.
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Stella Hamberg: Liebe Hölle (Dear Hell) / Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig
Leipzig is just an hour away from Berlin, so it’s great that the Walkabout of the Spinnerei-Galleries in Leipzig (Frühjahrsrundgang 2008 – PDF) opened just a day before the Gallery Weekend in Berlin. And it’s very practical for the collectors. The weather was as nice as the Bratwurst and the beer (fresh from the Black Forest), the crowd was happy and the drivers of the VIP shuttle service looked like Mafiosi. The first gallery at the Spinnerei we visited was Galerie Eigen + Art. Gerd Harry Lybke presented new works by a young German sculptor, Stella Hamberg (born 1975, lives and works in Berlin). The exhibition, entitled “Liebe Hölle” (dear hell), presents sculptures from 2007 and 2008. It shows the larger-than-life bronces “Berserker” and the relief “Sieben Millionen” (seven million). “Again it is all about the connection of the archaic and the contemporary and the relation of man and world.” (Stella Hamberg). Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig. Opening, (part of the Rundgang / Walkabout of the Spinnerei-Galleries Leipzig), May 1, 2008.
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Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
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Stars im Leipziger Museum der bildenden Künste - a star is born
Leipzig, 28.09.2012: David Bowie, Mick Jagger und Elvis Presley: Diese Stars sind jetzt in Leipzig -- im Museum der bildenden Künste. In der Ausstellung „A Star Is Born sind vom 30.09. bis 13.01. etwa 180 Fotografien von bekannten Musikern zu sehen.
Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei // Spinnerei
Die ehemals größte Baumwollspinnerei Kontinentaleuropas ist weit über die Grenzen Leipzigs bekannt und eine der interessantesten Produktions- und Ausstellungsstätten für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kultur. Seit dem Ende der Baumwollgarnproduktion 1992 sind gut 100 Künstlerateliers sowie 11 Galerien und Ausstellungsflächen heimisch geworden und bilden einen „Kosmos der Kunst“, der weltweit seinesgleichen sucht. Zu den Pionieren der Wiederbelebung zählte kein Geringerer als Maler Neo Rauch.
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Leipzig’s dynamic art scene enjoys an excellent reputation worldwide. Its prime site, Spinnerei, was formerly the largest cotton mill of continental Europe. Since its decommissioning in 1992, the factory has been subject to constant change. Artists have developed the cotton mill into a real cosmos of art. Meanwhile about 100 of them have set up their own studio, along with 11 galleries and the non-profit space Halle 14. Key figure of the so-called “New Leipzig School” is artist Neo Rauch, who was among the pioneers of the Spinnerei's revitalisation.
OMEGA Ladymatic presents CNN's Leading Women - Zaha Hadid
Leading Women, a CNN television series that connects its viewers to extraordinary women at the top of their chosen fields, is sponsored by OMEGA Ladymatic. The Ladymatic collection is distinguished by its bold, statement-making design and a mechanical movement widely considered to be among the best in the world.
Every month, the series features two influential women. In August 2012, OMEGA and CNN introduce Zaha Hadid founder of Zaha Hadid Architects.
A unique and hugely respected figure in the world of contemporary architecture, Zaha Hadid is one of the youngest ever winners of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, and the first - and only - woman ever to receive the honour (the highest in architecture).
Born in Baghdad in 1950, she gained a degree in mathematics from the American University in Beirut before moving to London in 1972 to study at the Architecture Association School, winning the school's Diploma Prize in 1977.
Her innovative, convention-breaking creations span the entire spectrum of design, from large-scale urban architecture to interiors, furniture and exhibition spaces, and have graced cities around the globe, winning her a plethora of awards and prizes.
Among her best known projects are the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA and the Hoenheim Nord Terminus in Strasbourg, France.
In addition to her architectural and design work she is a gifted artist - she has exhibited at New York's Guggenheim and Modern Art museums - and also an academic.
She has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard University School of Design and the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, and is currently a professor at Vienna's University of Applied Arts.
As well as her many architectural awards she has been made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commander of the British Empire.
In her Pritzker Prize citation juror Jorge Silvetti declared: What she has achieved with her inimitable manipulation of walls, ground planes, and roofs, with those transparent, interwoven, and fluid spaces, are vivid proof that architecture as a fine art has not run out of steam and is hardly wanting in imagination.
Zaha just won the Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture.
One of Zaha's recently completed project include the London Aquatics Centre, one of the first venues used at this year's Olympic Games. At the completion ceremony, the International Olympic Committee Chairman Jacques Rogge said: I have seen so many venues in my life but I had a visual shock when I came into the Aquatics Centre. Everything stands out: the harmony, the quality, the innovation. It's a masterpiece!
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Michael Triegel über sein Papst-Porträt von Benedikt XVI. (contemporary portrait of the Pope)
Painter Michael Triegel is talking (in German) about his portrait of Pope Benedikt XVI. on the occasion of the exhibition Michael Triegel: Transformation of the Gods from 28.10.2010 to 13.02.2011 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (© MdbK)... read more in German:
Maler Michael Triegel spricht über sein Papst-Porträt von Benedikt XVI. aus Anlass der Ausstellung Michael Triegel: Verwandlung der Götter vom 28.10.2010 bis 13.02.2011 im Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig; © MdbK
Zurück in die Renaissance: Der 42-jährige Michael Triegel malt altmeisterlich. Nun richtet ihm das Museum der bildenden Künste eine Werkschau aus: Süffige Rätselbilder für die Event-Gesellschaft.
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