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Discipline begins in the smallest of rituals—the fastening of a belt, the alignment of a button, the polish of a boot. Perfection is not an act but a habit, cultivated through relentless refinement.
One does not merely wear the uniform; one must embody it. The reflection in the mirror is not vanity—it is an affirmation of control, a declaration of order in a world plagued by chaos.
“A man who cannot master himself has no right to command others.”
M.bian Moleskine Case was my original design back in 2005. Dozens of prototyping and refinement were done and I even created a POP system for display in retail stores. However the production quantity required to get price down to consumer acceptable level couldn't be met. I had some opportunities to be able to have U.S. large distribution network to help lower the cost but turned out because of their Moleskine distributorship prevented them to sell products that could potentially harm the Moleskine business, I lost the chance to make it happen. Time flies, it is already two years passed.
When I was developing the M.bian case, my mind was thinking about ambience, i.e. an aura of excitement without intrusion. That's where the name M.bian came from. Today, I still use the prototypes to hold my pens, travel accessories and Moleskine.
I designed the velcro/button hanging system with two levels of height, i.e. you can have the M.bian case hanged from your waist belt close to the waist or have it lowered. You have more chance to hurt your waist if the case is held close to it, especially when you try to sit down on an armed chair, the case can pop to your waist and hurt you. That's why I designed a lowered configuration so that it stays near your lap preventing the armchair accident.
To me, the features are amazing coz M.bian is a condensed version of my whole digital/analog life. It has 3 pen holders on the outside covered with a flap, which acts as a quick pocket for storing train tickets and receipts. It has 2 mesh pockets inside to put more essential stuffs. It also has a headphone access port so that you can use it as an iPod holder on your belt. It also has cushion to protect your iPod or Moleskine.
When you are sitting or standing, accessing your Moleskine or iPod is super easy, just unzip forward and down, your iPod/Moleskine is exposed and you can quickly pull it out.
You can also use it as a travel pouch to store iPod and related connecting cables and headphones.
I love the headphone access port feature, it is water proof and headphone jack can easily pass the small but flexible opening.
The size is just fit for pocket size Moleskine, but it also fits standard passport so your personal identification document is never far from your waist. Pockets can even hold your portable digital camera.
Well, in this configuration, you can put a pen, a zippo lighter, a swiss knife and a small size compass. All on the outside easily accessible pocket and pen holders.
Since travelers use backpacks and most backpacks has some nylon strap on the shoulder strap. I added a small but userful hole on the velcro strap so that not only you can hang your M.bian case on belt, you can strap it on your backpack. Call it an explorer's case :)
For less active persons, M.bian case can be used as a pen case storing your precious pens both on the outside 3 pen holders and inside spacious compartments.
This must be the most loved feature of Moleskine users, instead of freely insert your Moleskine into the case, you can insert the left part of your Moleskine to the left side of the pouch which has a vertical mesh pocket. This setup is like a notebook cover for your Moleskine. On the other hand, if you are a Moleskine Reporter user, you can use the horizontal mesh pocket on the right side of the case to insert your Reporter! Call it a double feature!
Finally, comparing the price for all the other Moleskine cases available in the market, it is still the best. I hope somebody is still interested in this complete design. I also want it to be done in leather which feels more precious. So even though it didn't happen, it doesn't mean it won't and I love the features offered very much and it is my daily companion for the pass 2 years and still works great for me. Get in touch with me if you are interested to help make it come true.
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Furnished 1-bedroom #1488
21st Century Refinement! Immaculate 1 Bedroom in recently built modernist high-rise. Apartment decor combines zen touches with contemporary style. Wraparound windows in living room provide extraordinary sunlight and Manhattan cityscapes. State-of-the-Art Building has fitness center, conference room and beautiful rooftop garden! Every detail in apartment hand picked for ultimate design. Steps to Meatpacking District, Chelsea, and numerous subways.
When I visited Hug point for the first time a couple months ago, the falls was barely a trickle and the tide was about a quarter mile out! I wasn't expecting much at that time of year, I will definitely have to re-visit this place this winter or something...
M.bian Moleskine Case was my original design back in 2005. Dozens of prototyping and refinement were done and I even created a POP system for display in retail stores. However the production quantity required to get price down to consumer acceptable level couldn't be met. I had some opportunities to be able to have U.S. large distribution network to help lower the cost but turned out because of their Moleskine distributorship prevented them to sell products that could potentially harm the Moleskine business, I lost the chance to make it happen. Time flies, it is already two years passed.
When I was developing the M.bian case, my mind was thinking about ambience, i.e. an aura of excitement without intrusion. That's where the name M.bian came from. Today, I still use the prototypes to hold my pens, travel accessories and Moleskine.
I designed the velcro/button hanging system with two levels of height, i.e. you can have the M.bian case hanged from your waist belt close to the waist or have it lowered. You have more chance to hurt your waist if the case is held close to it, especially when you try to sit down on an armed chair, the case can pop to your waist and hurt you. That's why I designed a lowered configuration so that it stays near your lap preventing the armchair accident.
To me, the features are amazing coz M.bian is a condensed version of my whole digital/analog life. It has 3 pen holders on the outside covered with a flap, which acts as a quick pocket for storing train tickets and receipts. It has 2 mesh pockets inside to put more essential stuffs. It also has a headphone access port so that you can use it as an iPod holder on your belt. It also has cushion to protect your iPod or Moleskine.
When you are sitting or standing, accessing your Moleskine or iPod is super easy, just unzip forward and down, your iPod/Moleskine is exposed and you can quickly pull it out.
You can also use it as a travel pouch to store iPod and related connecting cables and headphones.
I love the headphone access port feature, it is water proof and headphone jack can easily pass the small but flexible opening.
The size is just fit for pocket size Moleskine, but it also fits standard passport so your personal identification document is never far from your waist. Pockets can even hold your portable digital camera.
Well, in this configuration, you can put a pen, a zippo lighter, a swiss knife and a small size compass. All on the outside easily accessible pocket and pen holders.
Since travelers use backpacks and most backpacks has some nylon strap on the shoulder strap. I added a small but userful hole on the velcro strap so that not only you can hang your M.bian case on belt, you can strap it on your backpack. Call it an explorer's case :)
For less active persons, M.bian case can be used as a pen case storing your precious pens both on the outside 3 pen holders and inside spacious compartments.
This must be the most loved feature of Moleskine users, instead of freely insert your Moleskine into the case, you can insert the left part of your Moleskine to the left side of the pouch which has a vertical mesh pocket. This setup is like a notebook cover for your Moleskine. On the other hand, if you are a Moleskine Reporter user, you can use the horizontal mesh pocket on the right side of the case to insert your Reporter! Call it a double feature!
Finally, comparing the price for all the other Moleskine cases available in the market, it is still the best. I hope somebody is still interested in this complete design. I also want it to be done in leather which feels more precious. So even though it didn't happen, it doesn't mean it won't and I love the features offered very much and it is my daily companion for the pass 2 years and still works great for me. Get in touch with me if you are interested to help make it come true.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/mbian-moleskine-case---an-...
The Vitesse was a quick version of the popular Triumph Herald and was also fitted with other refinements. First registered in 05/1966, this one is powered by a 1596cc engine. is seen here on display in the car park of the art-deco Midland Hotel, Morecambe, during Vintage by the Sea, on 01/09/2024.
This was my first time at this great event which has been running for 11 years, however this year's event(2025) will not be run due to pressure to raise the funds needed to match rising costs. The free and not-for-profit annual event, which was co-created by fashion designer Wayne Hemingway, who hails from Morecambe, in conjunction with Deco Publique has reportedly attracted more than 40,000 visitors to the Lancashire seaside resort each year, however the organisers hope this is not the end of the festival forever and that the right levels of resources and funding can be secured in the future. © Peter Steel 2024.
David Bestué produced a new installation in the form of a sculptural timeline defined by ignition and invention, fat and oil, obsolescence, fluorescence, luminescence and incandescence – a history of humanity from antiquity to the present day told through the evolution and refinement of lighting technology. Located in the domestic setting of the former Director’s house within the 1920s Cosme Toda ceramics factory, the installation was companioned by sculptural clusters recuperating Art Nouveau ceramics and plaster pieces found in the factory itself. These linked to Bestué's ongoing interest in the evolution of architectural practice alongside building materials and engineering techniques.
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‘Composiciones’ is a programme of five interventions specially commissioned for the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015. The programme complimented the existing calendar of exhibitions by presenting the work of artists active in the Barcelona art scene whose interventions responded to singular locations – public and private sites significant for their architecture, activity or their history.
‘Composiciones’ unfolded through temporary interventions at different speeds and rhythms and one-off events outside of Barcelona's contemporary art circuit – including a private psychoanalytic library, a former ceramics factory and a botanical collection. Pinpointing some lesser-known aspects of the city's cultural history and municipal life, ‘Composiciones’ offered moments of interruption, intimacy and immersion throughout the weekend.
Projects by David Bestué (at the Factory complex Cosme Toda, L'Hospitalet); Dora García (at the Biblioteca del Campo Freudiano); Jordi Mitjà (at the Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona); Rasmus Nilausen in collaboration with Pere Llobera (at the gardens of La Central bookstore, Raval); and Daniel Steegmann Magrané (at the Umbracle, Parc de la Ciutadella).
Curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones/
Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-compositions-artists-comm...
Beauty, privacy and refinement. Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, reined in for you. Ideally located just 25 minutes from downtown Calgary and minutes from internationally-renowned Spruce Meadows, Blue Valley Farms is a 40-acre trophy equestrian training compound brimming with all the amenities a discerning horseman could ever desire. No expense was spared to outfit this facility with blue ribbon features and amenities desired by champion riders and horse enthusiasts alike.
More details: hub.am/1q0quNP
Nike has just released their latest refinement to the Metcon Flyknit line. Let’s talk about the Nike Metcon Flyknit 3.
How does the Nike Metcon Flyknit 3 stack up versus the very popular Nike Metcon 4? Which is the right CrossFit training shoe for you?
The Nike Metcon line are intended to be cross training shoes – and more specifically these are CrossFit training shoes (even if they aren’t legally allowed to brand them as such.)
And as you know that means lifting heavy weights – both of the Olympic and powerlifting variety, running, jumping, rope climbs, and more.
These shoes have all the great features of the Nike Metcon line - plus FlyKnit material.
They’ve added synthetic overlays in high-wear areas such as the toe and lateral side to enhance durability.
It has also borrowed a bit from the Nike Free X Metcon. It’s got an even more bootie-like fit and appeal as compared to it’s predecessor.
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Beauty, privacy and refinement. Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, reined in for you. Ideally located just 25 minutes from downtown Calgary and minutes from internationally-renowned Spruce Meadows, Blue Valley Farms is a 40-acre trophy equestrian training compound brimming with all the amenities a discerning horseman could ever desire. No expense was spared to outfit this facility with blue ribbon features and amenities desired by champion riders and horse enthusiasts alike.
More details: hub.am/1q0quNP
David Bestué produced a new installation in the form of a sculptural timeline defined by ignition and invention, fat and oil, obsolescence, fluorescence, luminescence and incandescence – a history of humanity from antiquity to the present day told through the evolution and refinement of lighting technology. Located in the domestic setting of the former Director’s house within the 1920s Cosme Toda ceramics factory, the installation was companioned by sculptural clusters recuperating Art Nouveau ceramics and plaster pieces found in the factory itself. These linked to Bestué's ongoing interest in the evolution of architectural practice alongside building materials and engineering techniques.
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‘Composiciones’ is a programme of five interventions specially commissioned for the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015. The programme complimented the existing calendar of exhibitions by presenting the work of artists active in the Barcelona art scene whose interventions responded to singular locations – public and private sites significant for their architecture, activity or their history.
‘Composiciones’ unfolded through temporary interventions at different speeds and rhythms and one-off events outside of Barcelona's contemporary art circuit – including a private psychoanalytic library, a former ceramics factory and a botanical collection. Pinpointing some lesser-known aspects of the city's cultural history and municipal life, ‘Composiciones’ offered moments of interruption, intimacy and immersion throughout the weekend.
Projects by David Bestué (at the Factory complex Cosme Toda, L'Hospitalet); Dora García (at the Biblioteca del Campo Freudiano); Jordi Mitjà (at the Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona); Rasmus Nilausen in collaboration with Pere Llobera (at the gardens of La Central bookstore, Raval); and Daniel Steegmann Magrané (at the Umbracle, Parc de la Ciutadella).
Curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones/
Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-compositions-artists-comm...
Comercialmente, este all-weather Nikonos foi talvez o mais bem sucedido modelo al entre a família de Nikonos subaquática câmera. It inherited many basic features of the IVa with other refinements made to its features. Ela herdou muitas características básicas da IVa com outras adaptações feitas para as suas características. The Film speed range remained the same at 25 to 1600 ISO with a quartz-timed, stepless shutter speed range from 1/30 to 1/1000 sec., a time-exposure at B setting and a back-up mechanical shutter speed of 1/90 sec. (M90). O Filme velocidade permaneceu a mesma em 25 a ISO 1600 com um quartzo-timed, Stepless faixa de velocidade do obturador 1 / 30 a 1 / 1000 seg., Um tempo de exposição em B fixação e um back-up mecânico velocidade do obturador de 1 / 90 seg. (M90). It offers both TTL center-weighted metering, auto-exposure (Aperture Priority AE) as well as Manual exposure control. Oferece tanto centro-TTL ponderado medição, auto-exposição (Aperture Priority AE), bem como a exposição Manual controle. The Albada finder has parallax markings, LEDs for exposure readings, low shutter speed warning as well as flash ready light. The most significant improvement made was the TTL auto flash exposure control with other applicable Nikonos speedlights such as SB-102, SB-105 etc. making flash photography results the underwater so easy & assuring. O finder Albada tem paralaxe marcações, LEDs para exposição leituras, baixa velocidade do obturador advertência, bem como flash pronto luz. A melhoria mais significativa foi feita a exposição de controlo automático TTL flash com outras aplicáveis Nikonos speedlights tais como SB-102, SB-105 etc . tornando flash fotografia subaquática a resultados tão fácil & garantindo. Along with other features made to improve its overall handling under or above the water, Nikon has designed one of the most friendly underwater camera in the Nikonos V. Juntamente com outras funções feitas para melhorar o seu tratamento no âmbito global ou acima da água, Nikon foi concebido um dos mais amigáveis subaquática câmera na Nikonos V.
Beauty, privacy and refinement. Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, reined in for you. Ideally located just 25 minutes from downtown Calgary and minutes from internationally-renowned Spruce Meadows, Blue Valley Farms is a 40-acre trophy equestrian training compound brimming with all the amenities a discerning horseman could ever desire. No expense was spared to outfit this facility with blue ribbon features and amenities desired by champion riders and horse enthusiasts alike.
More details: hub.am/1q0quNP
All clients need social media monitoring and I think that it can get confusing. There is not one agency that has all the answers when looking at social media, but there are plenty that think they do.
I believe that buzz monitoring is actually a constant series of tweaks and refinements made by client, agency and tool in the hope of getting to the key insight. This can for some companies mean a heavy investment, for others not so much, but its important to think in tiers of refinement.
You are never going to get to the answer first time
Design-wise, D850 may not stand out in a lineup of DSLRs these days, but it comes with an array of improvements and refinements that make it an exceedingly comfortable camera to use.
On the exterior, Nikon has slimmed-down and deepened the D850's grip relative to the D810; this is the same treatment bestowed first upon the D750 and subsequently the D500, and it makes the camera very comfortable to hold, especially considering its relative heft. The ISO button has moved over to the right shoulder of the camera from the left, just like the D5, and the D850 has also inherited that camera's backlit controls. Unfortunately, the D850 loses the D810's built-in pop-up flash, which was handy for quick fill light and off-camera flash control, but Nikon claims weather-sealing has been made better as a result.
There is now a dedicated AF joystick which is far nice to use than Nikon's eight-way directional pad, and though there is still a dedicated AF-ON button for back-button autofocus shooters, the AF-L button has been removed. The card door hides dual card slots, one SD and one XQD. Despite its relative scarcity in the market, the remarkable speeds offered by XQD have the potential to change the way you shoot.
better/more accurate algorithms from left (poor) to right (accurate). all three images use the same tiles.
Beauty, privacy and refinement. Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime, reined in for you. Ideally located just 25 minutes from downtown Calgary and minutes from internationally-renowned Spruce Meadows, Blue Valley Farms is a 40-acre trophy equestrian training compound brimming with all the amenities a discerning horseman could ever desire. No expense was spared to outfit this facility with blue ribbon features and amenities desired by champion riders and horse enthusiasts alike.
More details: hub.am/1q0quNP
A slightly different colour to the usual bright reds, blues and yellows, but this gold toned hue adds a little refinement and stands out from the crowd.
Pentax K5
Rich River Rod Run, 2012
François Boucher (1703 - 1770); working in Italy and Paris
Two shepherdesses, 1760
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Both pastorals belong to the few oil paintings which ordered Karoline Luise with an artist. Jean-Henri Eberts, her Paris agent, conveyed the order to his friend Boucher. The Marchioness wished Boucher may also add animals to the images. The lively light and shade landscapes are characteristic for the conception of nature of the painter. Boucher not only shows the unspoilt nature but the designed ferocity of a park landscape. Only the act of aesthetic refinement makes the nature in Boucher's eyes great.
François Boucher (1703 - 1770); tätig in Italien und Paris
Zwei Schäferinnen, 1760
Öl auf Leinwand
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
die beiden Pastoralen gehören zu den wenigen Ölgemälden, die Karoline Luise bei einem Künstler in Auftrag gab. Jean-Henri Eberts, ihr Pariser Agent, vermittelte die Bestellung an seinen Freund Boucher. Die Markgräfin wünschte sich, Boucher möge den Bildern auch Tiere beifügen. Die von Licht und Schatten belebten Landschaften sind charakteristisch für die Naturanschauung des Malers. Boucher zeigt nicht die urwüchsige Natur, sondern die gestaltete Wildheit einer Parklandschaft. Erst der Akt ästhetischer Veredelung macht die Natur in Bouchers Augen groß.
Collection
The foundation of the collection consists of 205 mostly French and Dutch paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries which Margravine Karoline Luise acquired 1759-1776. From this collection originate significant works, such as The portrait of a young man by Frans van Mieris the Elder, The winter landscape with lime kiln of Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, The Lacemaker by Gerard Dou, the Still Life with hunting equipment and dead partridge of Willem van Aelst, The Peace in the Chicken yard by Melchior de Hondecoeter as well as a self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn. In addition, four still lifes of Jean Siméon Chardin and two pastoral scenes by François Boucher, having been commissioned directly by the Marchioness from artists.
A first significant expansion the museum received in 1858 by the collection of canon Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788-1865) with works of religious art of the 15th and 16th centuries. This group includes works such as two tablets of the Sterzinger altar and the wing fragment The sacramental blessing of Bartholomew Zeitblom. From 1899 to 1920, the native of Baden painter Hans Thoma held the position of Director of the Kunsthalle. He acquired old masterly paintings as the tauberbischofsheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald and drove the expansion of the collection with art of the 19th century forward. Only his successors expanded the holdings of the Art Gallery with works of Impressionism and the following generations of artists.
The permanent exhibition in the main building includes approximately 800 paintings and sculptures. Among the outstanding works of art of the Department German painters of the late Gothic and Renaissance are the Christ as Man of Sorrows by Albrecht Dürer, the Carrying of the Cross and the Crucifixion by Matthias Grünewald, Maria with the Child by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the portrait of Sebastian Brant by Hans Burgkmair the elder and The Nativity of Hans Baldung. Whose Margrave panel due to property disputes in 2006 made it in the headlines and also led to political conflicts. One of the biggest buying successes which a German museum in the postwar period was able to land concerns the successive acquisition of six of the seven known pieces of a Passion altar in 1450 - the notname of the artist after this work "Master of the Karlsruhe Passion" - a seventh piece is located in German public ownership (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne).
In the department of Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 16th century can be found, in addition to the aforementioned works, the portrait of the Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria by Peter Paul Rubens, Moses strikes the rock and water flows for the thirsty people of Israel of Jacob Jordaens, the still life with kitchen tools and foods of Frans Snyders, the village festival of David Teniers the younger, the still life with lemon, oranges and filled clay pot by Willem Kalf, a Young couple having breakfast by Gabriel Metsu, in the bedroom of Pieter de Hooch, the great group of trees at the waterfront of Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael, a river landscape with a milkmaid of Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp as well as a trompe-l'œil still life of Samuel van Hoogstraten.
Further examples of French paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries are, the adoration of the golden calf of Claude Lorrain, preparations for dance class of the Le Nain brothers, the portrait of Marshal Charles-Auguste de Matignon by Hyacinthe Rigaud, the portrait of a young nobleman in hunting costume of Nicolas de Largillière, The storm of Claude Joseph Vernet and The minuet of Nicolas Lancret. From the 19th century can be found with Rocky wooded valley at Civita Castellana by Gustave Courbet, The Lamentation of Eugène Delacroix, the children portrait Le petit Lange of Édouard Manet, the portrait of Madame Jeantaud by Edgar Degas, the landscape June morning near Pontoise by Camille Pissarro, homes in Le Pouldu Paul Gauguin and views to the sea at L'Estaque by Paul Cézanne further works of French artists at Kunsthalle.
One focus of the collection is the German painting and sculpture of the 19th century. From Joseph Anton Koch, the Kunsthalle possesses a Heroic landscape with rainbow, from Georg Friedrich Kersting the painting The painter Gerhard Kügelgen in his studio, from Caspar David Friedrich the landscape rocky reef on the sea beach and from Karl Blechen view to the Monastery of Santa Scolastica. Other important works of this department are the disruption of Adolph Menzel as well as the young self-portrait, the portrait Nanna Risi and The Banquet of Plato of Anselm Feuerbach.
For the presentation of the complex of oeuvres by Hans Thoma, a whole wing in 1909 at the Kunsthalle was installed. Main oeuvres of the arts are, for example, the genre picture The siblings as well as, created on behalf of the grand-ducal family, Thoma Chapel with its religious themes.
Of the German contemporaries of Hans Thoma, Max Liebermann on the beach of Noordwijk and Lovis Corinth with a portrait of his wife in the museum are represented. Furthermore the Kunsthalle owns works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Carl Spitzweg, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Leibl, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner and Max Klinger.
In the building of the adjacent Orangerie works of the collection and new acquisitions from the years after 1952 can be seen. In two integrated graphics cabinets the Kupferstichkabinett (gallery of prints) gives insight into its inventory of contemporary art on paper. From the period after 1945, the works Arabs with footprints by Jean Dubuffet, Sponge Relief RE 48; Sol. 1960 by Yves Klein, Honoring the square: Yellow center of Josef Albers, the cityscape F by Gerhard Richter and the Fixe idea by Georg Baselitz in the Kunsthalle. The collection of classical modernism wandered into the main building. Examples of paintings from the period to 1945 are The Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay, the Improvisation 13 by Wassily Kandinsky, Deers in the Forest II by Franz Marc, People at the Blue lake of August Macke, the self-portrait The painter of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the Merzpicture 21b by Kurt Schwitters, the forest of Max Ernst, Tower gate II by Lyonel Feininger, the Seven Deadly Sins of Otto Dix and the removal of the Sphinxes by Max Beckmann. In addition, the museum regularly shows special exhibitions.
Sammlung
Den Grundstock der Sammlung bilden 205 meist französische und niederländische Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, welche Markgräfin Karoline Luise zwischen 1759 und 1776 erwarb. Aus dieser Sammlung stammen bedeutende Arbeiten, wie das Bildnis eines jungen Mannes von Frans van Mieris der Ältere, die Winterlandschaft mit Kalkofen von Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Die Spitzenklöpplerin von Gerard Dou, das Stillleben mit Jagdgeräten und totem Rebhuhn von Willem van Aelst, Der Friede im Hühnerhof von Melchior de Hondecoeter sowie ein Selbstbildnis von Rembrandt van Rijn. Hinzu kommen vier Stillleben von Jean Siméon Chardin und zwei Schäferszenen von François Boucher, die die Markgräfin bei Künstlern direkt in Auftrag gegeben hatte.
Eine erste wesentliche Erweiterung erhielt das Museum 1858 durch die Sammlung des Domkapitulars Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788–1865) mit Werken religiöser Kunst des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Zu dieser Gruppe gehören Werke wie zwei Tafeln des Sterzinger Altars und das Flügelfragment Der sakramentale Segen von Bartholomäus Zeitblom. Von 1899 bis 1920 bekleidete der aus Baden stammende Maler Hans Thoma die Position des Direktors der Kunsthalle. Er erwarb altmeisterliche Gemälde wie den Tauberbischofsheimer Altar von Matthias Grünewald und trieb den Ausbau der Sammlung mit Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts voran. Erst seine Nachfolger erweiterten die Bestände der Kunsthalle um Werke des Impressionismus und der folgenden Künstlergenerationen.
Die Dauerausstellung im Hauptgebäude umfasst rund 800 Gemälde und Skulpturen. Zu den herausragenden Kunstwerken der Abteilung deutsche Maler der Spätgotik und Renaissance gehören der Christus als Schmerzensmann von Albrecht Dürer, die Kreuztragung und Kreuzigung von Matthias Grünewald, Maria mit dem Kinde von Lucas Cranach der Ältere, das Bildnis Sebastian Brants von Hans Burgkmair der Ältere und die Die Geburt Christi von Hans Baldung. Dessen Markgrafentafel geriet durch Eigentumsstreitigkeiten 2006 in die Schlagzeilen und führte auch zu politischen Auseinandersetzungen. Einer der größten Ankaufserfolge, welche ein deutsches Museum in der Nachkriegszeit verbuchen konnte, betrifft den sukzessiven Erwerb von sechs der sieben bekannten Tafeln eines Passionsaltars um 1450 – der Notname des Malers nach diesem Werk „Meister der Karlsruher Passion“ – eine siebte Tafel befindet sich in deutschem öffentlichen Besitz (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln).
In der Abteilung niederländischer und flämischer Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts finden sich, neben den erwähnten Werken, das Bildnis der Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria von Peter Paul Rubens, Moses schlägt Wasser aus dem Felsen von Jacob Jordaens, das Stillleben mit Küchengeräten und Lebensmitteln von Frans Snyders, das Dorffest von David Teniers dem Jüngeren, das Stillleben mit Zitrone, Orangen und gefülltem Römer von Willem Kalf, ein Junges Paar beim Frühstück von Gabriel Metsu, Im Schlafzimmer von Pieter de Hooch, die Große Baumgruppe am Wasser von Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael, eine Flusslandschaft mit Melkerin von Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp sowie ein Augenbetrüger-Stillleben von Samuel van Hoogstraten.
Weitere Beispiele französischer Malerei des 17. bzw. 18. Jahrhunderts sind Die Anbetung des Goldeen Kalbes von Claude Lorrain, die Vorbereitung zur Tanzstunde der Brüder Le Nain, das Bildnis des Marschalls Charles-Auguste de Matignon von Hyacinthe Rigaud, das Bildnis eines jungen Edelmannes im Jagdkostüm von Nicolas de Largillière, Der Sturm von Claude Joseph Vernet und Das Menuett von Nicolas Lancret. Aus dem 19. Jahrhundert finden sich mit Felsiges Waldtal bei Cività Castellana von Gustave Courbet, Die Beweinung Christi von Eugène Delacroix, dem Kinderbildnis Le petit Lange von Édouard Manet, dem Bildnis der Madame Jeantaud von Edgar Degas, dem Landschaftsbild Junimorgen bei Pontoise von Camille Pissarro, Häuser in Le Pouldu von Paul Gauguin und Blick auf das Meer bei L’Estaque von Paul Cézanne weitere Arbeiten französischer Künstler in der Kunsthalle.
Einen Schwerpunkt der Sammlung bildet die deutsche Malerei und Skulptur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Von Joseph Anton Koch besitzt die Kunsthalle eine Heroische Landschaft mit Regenbogen, von Georg Friedrich Kersting das Gemälde Der Maler Gerhard Kügelgen in seinem Atelier, von Caspar David Friedrich das Landschaftsbild Felsenriff am Meeresstrand und von Karl Blechen den Blick auf das Kloster Santa Scolastica. Weitere bedeutende Werke dieser Abteilung sind Die Störung von Adolph Menzel sowie das Jugendliche Selbstbildnis, das Bildnis Nanna Risi und Das Gastmahl des Plato von Anselm Feuerbach.
Für die Präsentation des Werkkomplexes von Hans Thoma wurde 1909 in der Kunsthalle ein ganzer Gebäudetrakt errichtet. Hauptwerke des Künstlers sind etwa das Genrebild Die Geschwister sowie die, im Auftrag der großherzöglichen Familie geschaffene, Thoma-Kapelle mit ihren religiösen Themen.
Von den deutschen Zeitgenossen Hans Thomas sind Max Liebermann mit Am Strand von Noordwijk und Lovis Corinth mit einem Bildnis seiner Frau im Museum vertreten. Darüber hinaus besitzt die Kunsthalle Werke von Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Carl Spitzweg, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Leibl, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner und Max Klinger.
Im Gebäude der benachbarten Orangerie sind Werke der Sammlung und Neuankäufe aus den Jahren nach 1952 zu sehen. In zwei integrierten Grafikkabinetten gibt das Kupferstichkabinett Einblick in seinen Bestand zeitgenössischer Kunst auf Papier. Aus der Zeit nach 1945 finden sich die Arbeiten Araber mit Fußspuren von Jean Dubuffet, Schwammrelief >RE 48:Sol.1960< von Yves Klein, Ehrung des Quadrates: Gelbes Zentrum von Josef Albers, das Stadtbild F von Gerhard Richter und die Fixe Idee von Georg Baselitz in der Kunsthalle. Die Sammlung der Klassischen Moderne wanderte in das Hauptgebäude. Beispiele für Gemälde aus der Zeit bis 1945 sind Der Eiffelturm von Robert Delaunay, die Improvisation 13 von Wassily Kandinsky, Rehe im Wald II von Franz Marc, Leute am blauen See von August Macke, das Selbstbildnis Der Maler von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, das Merzbild 21b von Kurt Schwitters, Der Wald von Max Ernst, Torturm II von Lyonel Feininger, Die Sieben Todsünden von Otto Dix und der Abtransport der Sphinxe von Max Beckmann. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Museum regelmäßig Sonderausstellungen.
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David Bestué produced a new installation in the form of a sculptural timeline defined by ignition and invention, fat and oil, obsolescence, fluorescence, luminescence and incandescence – a history of humanity from antiquity to the present day told through the evolution and refinement of lighting technology. Located in the domestic setting of the former Director’s house within the 1920s Cosme Toda ceramics factory, the installation was companioned by sculptural clusters recuperating Art Nouveau ceramics and plaster pieces found in the factory itself. These linked to Bestué's ongoing interest in the evolution of architectural practice alongside building materials and engineering techniques.
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‘Composiciones’ is a programme of five interventions specially commissioned for the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015. The programme complimented the existing calendar of exhibitions by presenting the work of artists active in the Barcelona art scene whose interventions responded to singular locations – public and private sites significant for their architecture, activity or their history.
‘Composiciones’ unfolded through temporary interventions at different speeds and rhythms and one-off events outside of Barcelona's contemporary art circuit – including a private psychoanalytic library, a former ceramics factory and a botanical collection. Pinpointing some lesser-known aspects of the city's cultural history and municipal life, ‘Composiciones’ offered moments of interruption, intimacy and immersion throughout the weekend.
Projects by David Bestué (at the Factory complex Cosme Toda, L'Hospitalet); Dora García (at the Biblioteca del Campo Freudiano); Jordi Mitjà (at the Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona); Rasmus Nilausen in collaboration with Pere Llobera (at the gardens of La Central bookstore, Raval); and Daniel Steegmann Magrané (at the Umbracle, Parc de la Ciutadella).
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
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