52 ABOVE: Emil Nolde, Still Life with Masks I, 1911. © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. TOP RIGHT: Emil Nolde, Still Life with Masks II, 1911. © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. RIGHT: Emil Nolde, Masks III, 1920. © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. LEFT: Female figure. Cycladic I, Greece. Musée Barbier-Mueller, inv. 202-4. BELOW: “Bactrian princess.” Oxus, Afghanistan. Musée Barbier-Mueller, inv. 241-13. © Musée Barbier-Mueller. Photos: Studio Ferrazzini Bouchet. EMIL NOLDE Berlin—Avant-garde German painter and watercolorist Emil Nolde’s name will forever be associated with the colorful paintings he produced that represent natural landscapes and religious scenes tending toward abstraction. An equally important but undoubtedly less well-known corpus of his work is devoted to the works of art he cherished all his life, and particularly to the ethnographic objects he first discovered in museums and then began to acquire, both locally in Germany as well as in the course of his travels around the world. It is to this aspect of the painter’s work that the Nolde Museum in Berlin is devoting an exhibition titled Emil Nolde - Die Stille Welt der Dinge, Blumen, Masken und Figuren (Emil Nolde – The Silent World of Things, Flower, Mask and Figures), which opens on April 26 and remains on view through October 20. We will feature an in-depth article on this landmark show in our autumn issue. In the meantime, we give our strongest recommendation to readers to visit the exhibition, where they will see drawings and paintings by Nolde alongside a variety of non-European art objects that once belonged to this extraordinary artist. ARTS OF ANTIQUITY Geneva—The Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva has always been well known for its dynamic programming and aesthetic presentations of its collection. In 2013, the arts of antiquity will be highlighted with a temporary exhibition as part of the Printemps du Musée Barbier-Mueller (Spring at the Barbier-Mueller Museum) events, which begins on March 20, after some renovation work has been completed. The exhibition is titled Arts de l’Antiquité – Une Collection Centenaire (Arts of Antiquity – A Centenarian Collection) and will reflect the interest and refined tastes that two of the three generations of Barbier Mueller collectors had for these works through the collections they assembled. Joseph Mueller came first, with a passion for Cycladic art, and then Jean-Paul Barbier Mueller, who has had a predilection for bronzes from the Steppes and from Luristan, to name but two examples. Seductive, geometrically constructed female figures and small, delicately manufactured bronzes carefully selected for their aesthetic qualities are among the highlights of this sensitive and moving collection. The exhibition remains on view through October 6. MUSEUM news
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