Jahresbericht 2011 - Presse - Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Familiar & Foreign
28 September to 29 February 2012
Ambras castle
guest presentation in ambras castle 01
The Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
by nicolas Poussin
A masterpiece from the Kunsthistorisches Museum
30 September to 1 november 2011
Ambras castle
cultural aspects of the cultural revolution
Personality cult and political design in
Mao Tse-tung’s china
18 February to 21 november 2011
Museum of ethnology
it proved interesting to take a look back over a few
decades to a time when china was on the one hand
isolated and preoccupied with itself, yet on the other
hand already aroused attention throughout the world
and unleashed heated debates. This period of the
“cultural revolution”, the era of Mao Tse-tung, was
what formed the starting point of current developments
in china. Until today historians and politicians have not
reached a unanimous verdict about these events. The
exhibition in the Museum of ethnology aimed to make a
contribution towards a better understanding of china in
the 1960s and 1970s from today’s point of view and
with our present-day knowledge. This analysis was of
course made from a european perspective which is why
it was a matter of presenting objects and documents
from the period, decoding them and making them
accessible and understandable for people who are interested
not only in china but also in phenomena such
as personality cult, mass movements, political utopias,
everyday life, totalitarian propaganda and also the 1968
movement in europe.
The exhibition consisted primarily of items from collections
which the Museum of ethnology has acquired and
compiled in recent years, but also had some unusual
loans from specialists and persons who experienced this
period in china themselves.
bali
changing Art
2 February to 2 May 2011
Museum of ethnology
what we see
reconsidering an Anthropometrical collection from
Southern Africa: images, Voices, and Versioning
25 May to 19 September 2011
Museum of ethnology
locations in the wild
Stage sets from three centuries
26 May to 26 September 2011
Austrian Theatre Museum
Forest / tree / man
7 September 2011 to 28 May 2012
Museum of ethnology
scholarship as adventure
etta Becker-Donner in Africa and Latin America
16 november 2011 to 19 March 2012
Museum of ethnology
heinrich von kleist
1777–1811
20 october 2011 to 9 April 2012
Austrian Theatre Museum
Kleist’s unusual and restless life led him through a restless
europe. While still barely a child he was already an officer;
as a student he was then older than most of his fellow
students, he was a traveller, alleged or real spy, civil
servant, prisoner of war, editor, political agitator, “tabloid”
journalist, a non-conformist who knowingly used conventions
– and above all he was a poet, in the most
remarkable and most difficult conditions. in his struggle
to achieve the unconditional realisation of his own
standards Kleist created a literary and journalistic œuvre
in a few years that now, 200 years later, is as modern as
ever.
19th- and 20th-century biographers saw Kleist primarily as
a poet who failed because of the time in which he was
living and whose life consequently had moved towards a
tragic ending. nevertheless, it was not Kleist’s temporary
or partial failure in himself or because of circumstances
that was at the centre of the exhibition but his important
and sometimes surprising decisions. His idea of a life
plan can be followed up until his spectacular suicide on
21 november 1811, the zenith of his self-portrayal. The
leitmotif of the exhibition in Kleist Year 2011 was taken
from Kleist’s own statements in his letters in all their
contradictoriness and inner turmoil. An image was created
of the poet that was complemented by digressions
to some of his dramas, for instance to Käthchen von
Heilbronn that was first performed on 17 March 1810 in
the Theater an der Wien, and with examples of his
journalistic activity as the editor of the first yellow press
daily newspaper in Berlin. The exhibits on display included
the autograph manuscript of Der Zerbrochene Krug, one
of Kleist’s few extant original manuscripts (on loan from
the Berlin State Library, Prussian cultural Heritage),
valuable manuscripts from collections in Vienna and
Frankfurt, and some of the rare material traces of his life.
coat of dreams
hungarian writers experience Vienna in
the years 1873 to 1936
3 March to 2 May 2011
Austrian Theatre Museum
the charm of coloured shadows
chinese shadow play
17 november 2011 to 5 March 2012
Austrian Theatre Museum
Venice
maritime power, art and the carnival
26 March to 6 november 2011
Schallaburg castle, Lower Austria
Imperial treasures
summary
Van eyck / Gossaert / Bruegel
Masterpieces of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
5 october 2011 to 15 January 2012
Groeningemuseum Bruges
Ivory
Baroque splendour at the Viennese court
3 February to 26 June 2011
Liebieghaus collection of Sculpture
Frankfurt am Main
masters of Venice
renaissance Painters of Passion and Power
from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
29 october 2011 to 12 February 2012
Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
splendour & power
imperial Treasures from Vienna
3 December 2010 to 13 February 2011
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
16 April to 24 July 2011
Stiftung Moritzburg – Kunstmuseum des
Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle/Saale
15 August 2011 to15 January 2012
The Fitzwilliam Museum, cambridge
Indians
native inhabitants of north America
8 April to 6 november 2011
Lokschuppen, rosenheim
african lace
A History of Trading, creativity and Fashion in nigeria
3 June 2011 to 21 January 2012
national Museum, Lagos, nigeria
publIcatIons
in keeping with the reputation of the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, some 30 independent publications present an
impressive range of research-intensive activity. These include
exhibition catalogues, new titles in scholarly
series, books for children, special publications and collection
catalogues as well as countless scholarly essays,
all of which are mentioned in the present Annual report.
Special mention in this regard should be made of
B. Darmstädter assisted by D. Salaberger and with an
essay by Bruce Dickey Die Zinken und der Serpent der
Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente (collection catalogues
of the KHM, edited by S. Haag, Vol. 7). The periodic
series of the technology studies of the KHM: Konservierung
– Restaurierung – Forschung – Technologie with
sum maries in english also contributes substantially to the
scholarly reputation of the institution.
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