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Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf
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This exhibition, organized by Concordia University in Montreal and travelled internationally by Ben Uri, the London Jewish Museum of Art, will be presented at the Cornell to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9–10, 1938). Focusing on the case of Max Stern’s Düsseldorf gallery, the exhibition addresses the issues of Nazi looted art and the on-going restitution efforts through the courts in America and Europe of works forcibly sold at the instruction of the Nazi regime. In August 1935 Max Stern, who had taken over the long-established Galerie Stern in Düsseldorf upon the death of his father the previous year, was notified that under Nazi law, he had lost all professional privileges and was no longer allowed to practice as an art dealer. He was given four weeks in which to sell or dissolve all holdings of the gallery. Stern appealed the mandate while trying to find a “suitable” (i.e., Aryan) owner for the gallery but his efforts failed. In November 1937 on orders of the Nazi government, Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne, one of Germany’s oldest auction houses, sold the inventory of the Galerie Stern at the auction known, as was customary, by its number, Auktion 392. It was one of many such forced sales meant to eliminate any Jewish participation in German cultural life. The exhibition is constructed in three modules that tell the intertwined stories of the Stern family and Max Stern's doomed struggle to save his art gallery and collection; the forced auction (including a reconstruction of the auction environment with more than fifty images of the sold lots); and finally the restitution of Nazi looted art in general, alongside current progress of the Max Stern art restitution project. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum will collaborate with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida and the Bach Festival Society, as well as with the Jewish Studies and History Departments at Rollins College, for programming around this exhibition. Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf was originally conceived, researched and curated by the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. The exhibition is toured and presented by Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art. Please see www.benuri.org.uk for more information.
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Collected by the Cornell: Purchases with Acquisitions Funds
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During the museum’s 35th anniversary year, this exhibition serves as a sequel to Collecting for the Cornell. The project will chronicle a little-known—but fascinating—behind-the-scenes story: the varied origins of the museum’s several designated purchase funds and the acquisitions that resulted from difficult choices and considered deliberations. Works by such renowned artists as Dürer, Cézanne, and Picasso will be included. The exhibition is organized by the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. |
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Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) |
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Diana Beltran Herrera: Birds of Florida
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The Cornell Fine Arts Museum will display eight sculptures by Diana Beltran Herrera (b. 1987, Colombia). The works are completely made of paper and will feature local bird species. The project is a CFAM collaboration with the Latin American Student Association, the Department of Biology, and the Department of Environmental Studies at Rollins College. Herrera's work seeks to explore the chillingly disengaged relationship between humans and nature in modern society. Using paper as her primary medium she is able to present notions of temporality and change, emphasizing the process of transformation that continuously occurs in nature as well as humankind.
Diana Beltran Herrera (Colombian, b. 1987) |
Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
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Organized by the American Federation of the Arts and the Matisse Foundation, this exhibition completed a national tour in 2011 that was so critically acclaimed (according to The Washington Times, it “refreshed the typical view of Matisse”) that three more venues were added; the Cornell is one of them. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of Matisse’s son Pierre and includes more than sixty works which illustrate every printmaking medium the artist utilized (etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts in black and white and two-color prints). Together, they showcase the extraordinary range of Matisse's printmaking techniques and subjects and provide a rich examination of an understudied part of his oeuvre. |
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Tiepolo, Gainsborough, Van Loo: Paintings from the European Golden Age
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This installation strategically coincides with a show of Old Master paintings on view at the Orlando Museum of Art: Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the Golden Age of Painting from the Collection of the Speed Art Museum in Louisvill, Kentucky. Against the amazing scientific and geographic discoveries and political and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the professional artists of Western Europe achieved an apogee of technique and content. This exhibition project provides the opportunity for CFAM, the area’s only encyclopedic museum collection, to highlight several works in its own possession by artists featured in OMA’s corresponding presentation.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804) Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788) Louis Michel van Loo (French, 1707–1771) |
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Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2014
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The 2014 edition of the Studio Faculty Biennial will showcase exciting new or recent work by five artists: Joshua Almond, Rose Casterline, Dana Hargrove, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons. |
