Exhibition Views 2014
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September 27, 2014 - March 15, 2015, Kadriorg Art Museum Italy, which is the heart of the antique legacy and Christian cultural history, has enchanted and inspired artists for centuries. Based on antique traditions that were cemented in Renaissance art, Italy was the place where the ideals of beauty and rules of composition developed that reigned throughout Europe until the end of the 19th century. Exhibition curators: Kerttu Männiste and Anu Allikvee Exhibition design: Peeter Laurits |
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March 29 - September 7, 2014, Kadriord Art Museum Eveline von Maydell was a world citizen and Baltic-German noblewoman, and achieved renown as a silhouette artist. The creative peak of her career was during the inter-war period, when she lived and worked in Germany, the United States and Estonia. The finely-crafted scissor-cut silhouettes depict famous writers and politicians, from Thomas Mann to Theodore Roosevelt, and theatrical and musical celebrities, from Anna Pavlova to Ethel Leginska, in addition to numerous society ladies, children and pets. The artist’s skill at adding expression to her work with details and period-related elements reveals the uniqueness of the subjects’ personalities, even in these small-scale silhouette portraits. Eveline von Maydell’s silhouettes may be in black-and-white, but they depict the entire colour spectrum of her contemporary world. Exhibition curators: Juta Kivimäe and Linda Lainvoo Exhibition design: Angelika Schneider |
