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THE ARTS SOCIETY BERLIN offers a yearly programme of illustrated lectures to study the Arts. The lectures are given by experts from the UK chosen for their first-rate knowledge of their fields.
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The Athletic Aesthetic – Your Arts Society guide to the 2024 Olympics
The Athletic Aesthetic – Your Arts Society guide to the 2024 Olympics
From July to September 2024 Paris will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. But whilst most onlookers will focus on sport, art and design will also play a part, as they have since the games began at Olympia nearly three thousand years ago. Greek art is replete with representations of athletes on vases, plates and bronzes. Every four years modern day hosts unveil dazzling new architecture, in the form of stadia, arenas, velodromes and swimming pools. The athletes themselves act as torch bearers for ever changing ideals of physical perfection. ...
Who’s got our paintings? The story of the Public Catalogue Foundation project
Who’s got our paintings? The story of the Public Catalogue Foundation project
One man’s quest to see a favourite painting at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the remarkable project, now known as ‘Art UK’ (and online), which has catalogued over 210,000 thousand oil paintings in UK public ownership since 2003. The project now moves on to sculpture. Cataloguers hunted down paintings in damp stores, clambered up dodgy ladders, unrolled masterpieces and sad tatters of canvas. Amanda knows! She was one of them. An extraordinary record has been created, which benefits from public interaction online and has becom...
George Stubbs (1724 – 1806) „The English Leonardo“
George Stubbs (1724 – 1806) „The English Leonardo“
Many art historians and critics have compared the work of Stubbs to that of Leonardo da Vinci, one even christening him the ‘Leonardo of Liverpool’ to reflect his humble origins as the son of a Liverpool leatherworker. The comparison can seem hubristic until one considers the intense scientific method and investigation that lay behind the production by Stubbs of his world-famous Anatomy of the Horse published in 1766 – a work which revolutionised the understanding and depiction of equine subjects. This lecture looks at the life and work o...
Britain versus the Bauhaus: Modern Design in 1930s
Britain versus the Bauhaus: Modern Design in 1930s
Staatliches Bauhaus was an art school founded under Weimar Republic by the architect Walter Gropius. From 1919 to 1933 its tutors combined crafts and the fine arts in a radical new approach to design education. Less well known is the influence of the Bauhaus and other German design schools on design and art education in Britain in this period. As the impact of the economic ‘Slump’ of c.1929-34 hit British manufacturing sales, many in local and national government took the view that Britain’s struggling industrial base could be improved if...
Cardiff Castle: A Welsh Victorian Camelot
Cardiff Castle: A Welsh Victorian Camelot
Far from being a ruin, Cardiff Castle is one of the most remarkable houses in Britain. Dating from the time of the Romans, centuries of change culminated in the complete transformation undertaken in the 1870s by the Marquess of Bute and his eccentric genius architect William Burges. They created a ‘Feudal extravaganza’ in fifteen highly imaginative interiors, including an Arab room, a Pompeian roof garden and rooms with an astrological theme. The lecture examines this wonderful building and the personalities of those involved.
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Our next Lecture:
The Athletic Aesthetic – Your Arts Society guide to the 2024 Olympics
The Athletic Aesthetic - Your Arts Society guide to the 2024 Olympics
From July to September 2024 Paris will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. But whilst most onlookers will focus on sport, art and design will also play a part, as they have since the games began at Olympia nearly three thousand...
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Dürer for Berlin
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 we enjoyed a wonderful tour of
Dürer for Berlin Looking for Traces of the Master in the Kupferstichkabinett.
The Kupferstichkabinett is home to one of the most important collections of drawings and printed works by Albrecht Dürer anywhere in the world.
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