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BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM ART MUSEUM IN HAMBURG
American Art travels to Europe

Kunst Art Museum Hamburg at Rathaus markt photoThe Bucerius Kunst Art Forum has only been around since 2002 but has become one of the principal cultural institutions in Northern Germany. The art museum which presents themed art exhibitions from collections on loan rather than having a permanent collection, is located in the Rathausmarkt market plaza neighboring the Hamburg Rathaus (City Hall) and near the canal locks which separate the Alster lakes from the canals to the Elbe River. The exhibition space is the columned building from the early 20th Century and Named for Gerd Bucerius co-founder and publisher of Germany’s well know Der Zeit newspaper, the museum is funded by the ZEIT Foundation. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with special "Lunch" and "After Work" tours. The Bucerius Kinder Kunst Club is a program for kids to be introduced to art through a painting class connected with the exhibition theme.

Bucerius Kunst Forum three exhibitions for 2007-2009

art museum exhibition Hamburg budget travel photoLooking beyond Europe “150 Years of American Art 1800-1950” focuses on the origins of a genuine American school of art got its inspiration from European painters but took its own distinctive direction. The exhibition will feature masterpieces from American artists like Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Edward Hopper. The exhibition will cycle in three different themed shows over three years from 2007 to 2009 covering the “Hudson River School”, “Portraits of the Guilded Age” and “American Realism”.

150 Years of American Art collection cycle starts with "Creating an American Art: Masterworks from the Wodsworth Atheneum Museum of Art" running February 24 to May 28, 2007. America’s first home grown school of landscape painting from 1825 to 1875 which eclipsed portraiture with dramatic images of natural wonder Niagara Falls, Yosemite Valley and the bright leaves of autumn as subjects.

Other Art Exhibitions for 2007
Sailors Delights: Watercolors and Gouaches of Otto Dix” June 16 to September 9 Dix’ iconoclastic Portraits and group studies display a colorful panorama of human existence, delicate and harsh, humorous and bizarre

“Paestum Art Collection of Antiquity” October 13 to January 20 2008 Classical paintings discovered in the 1700’s at the temple in the Gulf of Salerno rarely seen including 6 burial chambers preserved in their entirety presenting new insights into the rich history of Classical civilization.

Price for adults is 5 Euro, a family admission is 10 Euro and students over 18 are 3 Euro. Under 18 Free. © Bargain Travel Europe

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