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The Leopold Museum — 3rd Greatest Museum in Vienna
Vienna’s Leopold Museum is the best place to feel the dynamic power of modern Austrian art. Housing around 6,000 works of art — including the world’s most comprehensive collection of the talented, enigmatic Egon Schiele — the Leopold Museum takes you on a journey from the 1860s to the Wiener Secession, through the stylish era of Jugendstil, and into Expressionism.…
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Jacquemart-André — A Wonderful Little Museum in Paris
When Nélie Jacquemart acquired “Virgin and Child on a Throne” (pictured below) at the end of the 19th century she did not know who had created this important painting — for it was only later, in the 1930s, that this masterpiece was attributed to Giovanni Bellini. The Musee Jacquemart-André on Boulevard Haussmann was created from the private home of Nélie…
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MODERN ART & EXPRESSIONISM — The Best Paintings in Switzerland
Basel is a Swiss city blessed with a variety of museums. For a survey of art from 15th-18th-century Old Masters to Expressionism and Contemporary Art, we strongly recommend a visit to the Kunstmuseum Basel (where admission to the extraordinary permanent collection is free on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. / 17:00 to 20:00 and the first Sunday of every…
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The Best of Boston — Gauguin, Monet & Sargent
When travelers tell us they plan to spend a week in New York, our initial response is to suggest that a 10-day visit to Boston and New York City would be ideal. For art lovers, Boston is a relaxed place to contemplate “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (shown above), the monumental mural Paul…
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Excellent Van Gogh Paintings & the Beautiful Colors of Rome
You cannot go wrong when planning to see an exhibition devoted to art created by Vincent van Gogh — your only valid complaints could be that the show is too small, or perhaps covers only one tiny facet of his remarkable career. We begin by visiting a small exhibition featuring landscape paintings by Vincent van Gogh (and four other contemporaries…
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The Best Surrealism in Venice and Potsdam
The presentation of “Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity” at the Barberini Museum in Germany (which was on view through January 29, 2023) provided a grand overview of the female and male Surrealists who were active for more than 50 years during the 20th century. The Barberini, where the amazing Hasso Plattner Collection of Impressionism is always on view, is displaying…
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A Unique & Fabulous Pilgrimage to the Marmottan in Paris
The world's largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet rests comfortably today in the leafy hamlet of Passy (a neighborhood absorbed into the City of Paris in 1860) inside a townhouse with Empire-style salons. This property was purchased in 1882 by Jules Marmottan, a lawyer and mining-company director who collected pre-Renaissance art from Germany, Flanders and Italy.
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Impressionist Art from Private Collections in Rome
A private home in Rome has become the newest showcase for exhibitions of fine art, and is currently featuring a fabulous show of Impressionist paintings.
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Van Gogh — Vincent’s Influence in Germany
Based on the trailblazing exhibition entitled “Making Van Gogh” which was on view at the Städel Museum from October 23, 2019 through February 16, 2020, we feel it is justified to refer to Vincent van Gogh as the “Father of Expressionism.” Without a doubt, this spectacular presentation of 50 paintings (and additional works on paper) by Van Gogh goes even…
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Great Exhibitions from the Past at the Pompidou Centre
We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions at your favorite museums during recent years. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, even though most of the works of art pictured below are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find…
