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Introduction

EXHIBITION: ALMA TADEMA LEEUWARDEN 2018

This publication shows different articles that were published regarding to the exhibition ‘Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm’. From the first of October 2016 till the 7th of February 2017 this exhibition is on display at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden. Alma-Tadema was the most successful and seductive storyteller of the late 19th century. He had great knowledge of archaeology and classical antiquity whereby he managed to bring the days of ancient Rome to life in his paintings. The exhibition Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm is part of Leeuwarden-Fryslân European Capital of Culture 2018. On the 29th and 30th of September NBTC Holland Marketing organized a press trip in relation to the exhibition and Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018. This press trip was organized in collaboration with the Fries Museum and Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018. The press trip was attended by fourteen journalists from all over the world. There were journalists present from Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and North-America. In this publication you will find articles that were published as a result of NBTC’s international press approach including the group press trip.

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Alma-Tadema ou le romantisme antique Marche-de-l-art, publié le 05/10/2016 à 11:42 , mis à jour à 11:46:55

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904. La découverte de Moïse. Collection privée.courtesy Christie’s

Né à Dronryp, petite commune de la Frise hollandaise, proche de la ville de Leeuwarden, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) est très connu aux Etats-Unis et surtout en Angleterre où, à la fin du XIXe siècle, il était un artiste recherché et fort cher. Hollandais d’origine, il n’y a donc rien d’étonnant à ce que le musée de la Frise, à Leeuwarden, lui consacre une exposition qui embrasse tous les aspects de sa brillante carrière, de ses débuts prometteurs à la découverte de l’Antiquité romaine en passant par sa vie familiale et mondaine et ses œuvres emblématiques qui servirent d’inspiration aux grands réalisateurs de péplums hollywoodiens.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Amo Te Ama Me, 1881. Collection du Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.

Issu d’une famille bourgeoise, Lawrence aurait dû embrasser comme son père la carrière de notaire. Mais à Leeuwarden, il intègre une école d’art et, à 16 ans, s’installe à Anvers pour y étudier à l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Au début de sa carrière, il trouve son inspiration dans son environnement familier, dépeint sa famille et les paysages hollandais, inspiré par ses illustres prédécesseurs du Siècle d’Or. La première salle présente ainsi de nombreuses œuvres dont un remarquable autoportrait et une série de tableaux consacrés à l’époque mérovingienne avec des représentations des reines Frédégonde et Radegonde. On y ressent déjà l’intérêt de l’artiste pour la représentation du passé et son goût de l’histoire.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema Coign of vantage, 1895. Collection Ann et Gordon Getty.

C’est à l’âge de 27 ans lors de son voyage de noces en Italie qu’il se découvre une passion pour l’Antiquité et les fouilles de Pompéi. Il est fasciné par l’architecture et l’urbanisme romain, l’utilisation de l’espace mais également par tout ce qui touche à la vie quotidienne du monde antique. Tout l’intéresse : le mobilier, la vaisselle, les vêtements, les voitures, les sandales, les tentures… Il dessine beaucoup : des drapés, des aiguières, des objets créant ainsi un véritable répertoire de formes qui lui servira pour la réalisation de ses tableaux.

Dès lors, ses oeuvres illustrent la vie romaine antique avec une profusion de détails. On contemple une famille patricienne, richement vêtue, arrivant au théâtre, de jeunes élégantes conversant au balcon, l’échoppe d’un fleuriste, une vestale faisant une offrande aux Dieux, une belle alanguie sur un carrelage de mosaïques regardant des poissons dans un bassin.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Les roses d’Héliogabale. 1888 Collection Prérez Simon, Mexico.

Au fait de sa gloire, il se lance dans de grandes représentations. Le musée de Leeuwarden présente ainsi le célèbre tableau « Les roses d’Héliogabale ». On croit assister à une scène voluptueuse d’orgie romaine. Il n’en est rien. L’empereur sur un piédestal, entouré de ses favoris, fait déverser sur les convives des kilos de pétales de roses. Il ne s’agit pas de dissimuler ainsi les égarements de ces derniers mais de les étouffer. Ils périront tous dans ces effluves parfumées. Autre illustration cette fois égyptienne : Moïse sauvé des eaux. Cet immense tableau, le plus cher jamais vendu de l’artiste (35,9 millions de dollars dans une vacation orchestrée par Christie’s) est l’une de ses dernières grandes commandes. Réalisé en 1904 à 68 ans, il

représente la fille du pharaon ramenant le nourrisson trouvé sur le Nil dans un berceau d’osier. Rentrant au palais dans une superbe chaise à porteurs, protégée du soleil par de grands éventails de plumes, elle regarde l’enfant porté par ses suivantes. Ce tableau est la quintessence de l’art d’Alma-Tadema. Dans une mise en scène très étudiée, on est ébloui par la richesse des coloris et des détails, la beauté des tissus de lin, la luxuriance des fleurs.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Water pets.1874. Collection privée. Courtesy Christie’s.

Cette impression de vivre les « délices de Capoue », on la retrouve dans de nombreux tableaux de petite dimension qui montrent des couples d’amoureux langoureux ou contrariés. Alma-Tadema illustre alors des poèmes et des nouvelles, replongeant les héros dans une Rome idéalisée. Le plus souvent, ils sont assis sur des bancs de marbre blanc avec une mer d’un bleu azur à l’horizon. Les tourtereaux sont de vrais « Roméo et Juliette » de la Rome des empereurs. En somme, Alma-Tadema a créé le concept inédit du romantisme antique et nous entraîne dans de délicieux atermoiements amoureux. Il n’y a alors rien d’étonnant à ce que les grands réalisateurs hollywoodiens se soient nourris des tableaux d’Alma-Tadema pour leurs films. Cecil B de Mille s’est certainement inspiré des œuvres égyptiennes de l’artiste pour la réalisation des « Dix commandements ». Plus récemment, Ridley Scott pour « Gladiator » y a trouvé bien des thèmes de décor.

Dans une des salles, celle qui présente les œuvres les plus glamour et emblématiques, les scénaristes de l’exposition ont eu la bonne idée de présenter sous forme de frise une sélection de films qui permettent au visiteur de les confronter aux tableaux dont les réalisateurs se sont inspirés.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Rivales inconscientes.1893. Bristol Museums and Art Gallery.

Mais on aurait tort de réduire Alma-Tadema à ces seules représentations d’une Rome idéalisée et idyllique. L’un des mérites de cette exposition est de nous montrer un aspect moins connu de l’artiste : sa vie privée avec ses deux filles d’un premier mariage et sa relation avec sa deuxième épouse Laura Thérèse Epps, elle-même artiste de talent. On peut ainsi voir de rares tableaux de scène de famille de Lawrence et Laura. On a également de pénétrer dans le somptueux hôtel particulier de 66 pièces qu’il occupait au fait de sa gloire, un lieu qu’un journaliste de l’époque dépeignait comme un palais enchanté, un pays des fées, fréquenté par tout ce que Londres comptait de personnalités que l’artiste n’hésitait pas à portraiturer.

On suit également avec intérêt les liens qu’il peut y avoir entre son œuvre et celles d’autres grands artistes comme Gustav Klimt ou Frederic Lord Leighton.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema. L’entrée du théâtre.1866. Fries Musuem Leeuwarden.

Riche, adulé, anobli par la reine, le prix d’une seule œuvre de l’artiste permettait d’acheter toute la production de Van Gogh. Alma-Tadema pensait cependant au grand public et n’hésitait pas à réaliser des gravures plus accessibles aux moins argentés. Plusieurs exemplaires sont exposés. Cette exposition de plus de 80 œuvres d’Alma-Tadema, dans une ville hollandaise inconnue des Français, mérite le déplacement. Elle est magnifique. Le catalogué édité en anglais est passionnant. Alors si vous hésitez à y aller en raison de l’éloignement (plus de cinq heures de train) profitez-en pour organiser un week-end en Frise. La Hollande du Nord a bien des atouts.

Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Pays-Bas, « Lawrence Alma-Tadema, at home in antiquity », exposition jusqu’au 7 février 2017. Pour plus de renseignements : www.holland.com/culture

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Une vie pour l'Antiquité PAR RAFAËL PIC

La gloire de Lawrence Alma-Tadema fut immense, comparable à celle de Jean-Léon Gérôme, de William Bouguereau et des préraphaélites. Ce Hollandais transplanté à Londres sut donner corps à une vision idéalisée de VAntiquité, pleine de couleur et de chair. Sa Frise natale, rude et grise, est le lieu idéal pour se plonger dans cet univers de pourpre, d'or et de venin. EXPOSITION LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA. AT HOME IN ANTIQUITY FriesMuséum, Leeuwarden octobre 2016-7février2017 Belvédère, Vienne(24février-18 juin 2017) Leighton House Muséum, Londres (7juillet-29odobre2017)

gros drap devint le plus grand interprète de l'Antiquité classique, celui dont le pinceau pouvait rendre les étoffes les plus fines, les mosaïques les plus étincelantes, les fleurs les plus capiteuses. L'étonnante métamorphose vaut bien celles qu'Ovide nous narre, et fut déclenchée par un coup de théâtre, romanesque à souhait. En 1850, on décela chez l'adolescent destiné au barreau une insidieuse tuberculose. Sa mère, veuve, lui concéda, pour adoucir ses derniers mois, l'assouvissement d'un caprice : peindre.

'est une ville tout au nord des PaysBas, dans la Frise, où l'on goûte les noms doubles : ses enfants les plus célèbres sont Mata-Hari et AlmaTadema. On en reparlera abondamment quand Leeuwarden ceindra la couronne de capitale européenne de la culture, en 2018. Mais l'idée n'était pas mauvaise de déflorer l'une de ces deux cartes maîtresses avant le grand raout : de quoi créer un appel d'air et pousser les amateurs à se pencher sur une carte. Leeuwarden, au-delà de la grande digue, est le terminus de la boucle des onze villages, cette course de patinage sur les canaux gelés, fameuse pour sa longueur (200 km) et pour sa périodicité erratique. Les hivers étant devenus ce que l'on sait, elle ne s'est pas tenue depuis 1997.

Lawrence ne mourut pas (enfin, tout de même, en 1912) mais, en revanche, continua de peindre. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, le phtisique miraculé était devenu l'un des peintres les plus en vue de l'Angleterre victorienne. Installé à Londres depuis 1870, académicien respecté, il y recevait avec faste dans une demeure de soixante-quatre pièces (qui avait auparavant appartenu à James Tissot), à Grove End Road, continuation de l'Abbey Road que les Beatles devaient rendre célèbre. Plus beau que la maison de Néron, ce palais regorgeait d'objets archéologiques, de tapis et de tentures, de mosaïques et de vitraux. Dans un échange de mondanités, AlmaTadema demanda aussi à ses amis peintres d'y réaliser des panneaux décoratifs. Au nombre de quarante-cinq, éparpillés entre Belfast, C'est sur cette terre plate où mugissent les Londres, l'Amérique ou vents du Nord qu'est né Lawrence AimaLisbonne, ils ne sont pas faciles à réunir. Signés Tadema en 1836. Il aurait pu y mener, comme Frederick Leighton, son père, une existence confortable de notaire, John Singer Sargent ou peut-être monter, à ses moments perdus, une Hendrik Willem Mesdag, laiterie ou une fromagerie produisant du ils forment un beau stock bon gouda au cumin. Le sort - ou plutôt sa d'égéries nues, de payvolonté - en décida autrement : les rêves du sages romantiques, de jeune Lawrence le portaient très loin, vers clairs de lune. Sa Frise le grand Sud, la Méditerranée, les temples, natale, fière de l'ascenles cirques et les vestales. C'est ainsi que le

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prodigue, en expose dixsept, un exploit.

Mais l'exposition montre bien plus, dans un lieu qui vaut le déplacement : le Fries Muséum est un établissement flambant neuf, reconstruit grâce au legs d'un architecte philanthrope et altruiste, Ian Bonnema, qui a donné dix-huit millions d'euros et souhaité que son collègue HubertJan Henket dessine le bâtiment. On y trouve un beau fonds d'Alma-Tadema — dix-huit peintures et quelque trois cents dessins, œuvres graphiques et objets divers, reçus pour l'essentiel par héritage en 1935 -, qui a été complété de prêts internationaux. L'un des principaux collectionneurs actuels, le Mexicain Pérez Simon, a ouvert grand ses coffres et concédé le tableau devenu icône alma-tademienne par excellence : Les Roses d'Héliogabale. Ce qui ressemble à un nuage de fleurs est en réalité un supplice raffiné et très cruel, par lequel le dément Héliogabale étouffe ses ennemis sous le poids de millions de pétales. Pour recréer son univers antique, AlmaTadema laissait assez peu de place à l'imagination. On sait qu'il fit plusieurs voyages en Italie, dont le premier fut un éblouissement, en 1863, son voyage de noces. A Rome, il passe des heures à dessiner les colonnes de l'église San Clemente ; à Pompéi, armé d'un mètre, il prend les mesures des bâtiments publics et de la maison de Salluste. Au retour, il continue ses explorations savantes dans sa bibliothèque riche de quatre mille ouvrages (aujourd'hui conservés à l'université de Birmingham). Il potassedans les pagesdes manuels l'habillement des matrones ou la forme précise des strigiles. Loin de n'être qu'un rat de bibliothèque, il suit de près l'actualité ; il se passionne notamment pour le trésor de Hildesheim, une des découvertes majeures de son temps (1868), dont il reproduira plusieurs des pièces d'orfèvrerie dans ses peintures, parfois en s'inspirant des

répliques produites par Christofle. À l'époque, l'Antiquité était dans le vent ! Sansêtre en prise directe avec les archéologues, Alma-Tadema avait une forme de prescience : dans son précoce morceau d'anthologie, Phidias montrant les frises du Parthénon à ses amis (1868), il joue à fond la carte de la couleur, avec des rouges, des bleus, des bruns, contre l'avis des autorités scientifiques de l'époque. Les analyses confirmeront plus tard que les reliefs étaient bien polychromes... La précision de ses reconstitutions intéressera vite une nouvelle discipline en plein essor : le cinéma. Dès les années 1910, les décorateurs piochent sans vergogne dans son corpus de tableaux d'histoire. La juxtaposition de ses peintures et d'extraits de films nourrit l'une des sections les plus intéressantes de l'exposition. Elle montre que les emprunts furent parfois littéraux. AlmaTadema, qui gagnait des sommes colossales par la diffusion de ses gravures - davantage encore que par sa peinture -, aurait certainement su tirer avantage de ce nouvel art des masses. Mais il mourut trop tôt pour en profiter. romaine (1911), Dans L'Orgie Louis Feuillade reprend de près la fameuse pluie de roses. Quand Enrico Guazzoni, auteur en 1913 de la première superproduction, Quo vadis ?, et ses successeurs veulent concevoir un impluvium réaliste ou dessiner un impeccable cartibulum (table métallique à pieds de griffon), c'est chez Alma-Tadema qu'ils s'abreuvent. En 1956, dans Les Dix Commandements de Cecil B. DeMille, les cartouches et palmettes qui encadrent un Yul Brynner éploré sont des copies aisément reconnaissables, issues de La Mort du premier-né. Ce tableau, auquel l'artiste fut très attaché au point de le racheter après l'avoir vendu, lui évoquait un souvenir poignant, la mort de son premier fils, de la variole, à l'âge de trois mois. L'influence d'Alma-Tadema a récemment connu un rebond inattendu : dans Gladiator, qui a renouvelé le genre du péplum au début du e XXI siècle, Ridley Scott et son chef décorateur Arthur Max en font, avec Gérôme, l'un de leurs principaux mentors.

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Cette obsession permanente pour l'Antiquité, qui colle à la peau d'Alma-Tadema comme une étiquette encombrante, se relâche parfois : on voit qu'il s'est également intéressé au début de sa carrière aux ambiances médiévales (son Frédégonde visitant Prétextât sur son lit de mort est aussi énigmatique pour nous qu'une formule alchimique !), qu'il s'est essayé au portrait, qu'il a brossé quelques paysages d'été ou illustré des drames de Shakespeare. Casé parmi les peintres d'histoire, pas très loin du rayon pompier, Alma-Tadema incarne un métier impeccable, maîtrisé sur le bout des doigts, peut-être daté mais exemplaire par son obsession documentaire. Et l'on est tout étonné d'apprendre que ce notable barbichu, symbole de l'académisme bourgeois, allait exercer une influence fondamentale sur l'un des maîtres e du premier XX siècle, Gustav Klimt. Qui sut s'en nourrir, la digérer et la transcender pour explorer d'autres rivages. Q

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Preise für Eigentum um zehn Prozent gestiegen Nimwegen. Die Preise für Eigen-

tumshäuser sind in der Stadt innerhalb eines Jahres um mehr als zehn Prozent gestiegen. Für die gesamte Region geht der Bund der Immobilienmakler von einer Preissteigerung von fast sieben Prozent aus. Trotzdem liegen die Hauspreise noch nicht wieder auf dem Niveau von 2008. Damals war der Markt komplett zusammengebrochen.

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Von Diana Zulfoghari Rotterdam. Nein, Peter Lindbergh interessiert sich nicht für Mode. Das glaubt man dem Mann in schwarzer Jeans und T-Shirt aufs Wort. Er interessiert sich für Menschen, für echte Menschen mit Sommersprossen, einem ironischen Zug um den Mund oder einem gefährlichen Funkeln in den Augen. Traumfrauen mit Traummaßen. Die Supermodels sind aus der ganzen Welt nach Rotterdam gejettet, um bei der Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Eine andere Vision von Mode-Fotografie“ mit dem Meister auf dem roten Teppich zu stehen.

Der Macher der Supermodels Denn Peter Lindbergh ist der Mann, dessen Fotos die Ära der Supermodels begründet haben. „Du kannst gar nicht hässlich sein!“ hat der Fotograf sie damals ermutigt, vor fast 30 Jahren. „Sei einfach du selbst!“ Daran erinnert sich Karen Alexander lachend. „Aber ich war gerade 20, ich hatte gar keine Ahnung, wer ich überhaupt bin.“ Tatjana Patitz weiß noch zu erzählen, wie erleichtert sie war, nicht ein bloßes Etwas zu sein, das lange geschminkt und verkleidet wird. Diese beiden Frauen – auch heute mit 50 Jahren auffallend schön, groß und auf gefährlich hohen Absätzen – sind auf dem legendären Bild mit den weißen Hemden zu sehen. Sechs junge Frauen am Strand von Santa Monica, die alle übergroße weiße Hemden tragen, sonst nichts. Ein Bild, das damals gegen alle Regeln von Modefotografie und Zeitgeist verstieß und genau deswegen ein Meilenstein wurde. Dieses Bild hängt freilich auch im ersten Raum der Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Rotterdam, die amerikanische Vogue hat es einst zum Foto des Jahrzehnts ernannt und Lindbergh weltberühmt gemacht. Und mit ihm die Models zu Supermodels. Wer es auf die Titel-

Bachelor-Studenten der HAN wollen die Hochschule auf insgesamt rund eine Millionen Euro Schadenersatz verklagen. Weil sie durch ein Versäumnis der HAN keinen Praktikumsplatz bekommen hätten, müssten sie längere Studienzeiten in Kauf nehmen, argumentieren die Studierenden. In einer ersten Reaktion bedauerte die HAN, dass die Studenten die Sache vor Gericht bringen wollen. Man sehe sich aber nicht in der Verantwortung.

Lindberghs berühmtes Bild „white shirts“ mit den Models Karen Alexander (2. v.l) und Tatjana Patitz (2 .v.r) FOTOS: ZULFOGHARI

seite der „Vogue“ geschafft hat, in den Pirelli-Kalender, der war weltweit ein Star. Immer in Schwarzweiß und immer von Lindbergh auf diese bewusst authentische Art fotografiert. Wahre Schönheit!

Unveränderliche Kennzeichen Die ganze Welt kennt Cindy Crawfords Muttermal über dem Mund, Nadja Auermanns endlos lange Beine oder das winzige Tattoo am Handgelenk von Kate Moss. Schauspieler, Sänger, Stars und Sternchen wollen von Lindbergh abgelichtet werden. Einige hängen nun überlebensgroß in der Ausstellung, etwa die verstorbene Pina Bausch oder Tina Turner. Quicklebendig ist sie heimlich nach Rotterdam gekommen, um nachts einen Privatrundgang mit Peter durch die Ausstellung zu machen. Vor der offiziellen Eröffnung, ohne über den roten Teppich laufen zu müssen. Cindy Crawford dagegen ist gerade noch rechtzeitig gekommen, um neben Peter Lindbergh bereitwillig mit Fans und Volk für Selfies zu

posieren. Die elfjährige Day trägt ein weißes Kleid und zählt Namen auf: Lara Stone, Milla Jovovich, Eva Herzigova… neben diesen Supermodels hat sie heute gestanden und in die Kamera geguckt. Ohne hochgereckten Daumen, ohne Kussmund oder breites SelfieGrinsen, denn Day weiß, worum es hier geht. Sie will kein Model werden, sondern eine berühmte Fotografin, so wie Peter Lindbergh. „Heutzutage wissen die Kinder ja gar nicht mehr, was ein Film ist, was Kontaktabzüge sind oder wofür man ein Polaroid-Bild brauchte!“ schildert der Kurator der Ausstellung, Thierry-Maxime Loriot, sein Anliegen, das Schaffen Peter Lindberghs in einer großen Werkschau zu zeigen. Muss man das wissen? Die kleine Day schüttelt den Kopf, sie weiß, aber was ein gutes Foto ist. Dass ein Fotograf nicht alles knipst, sondern total lange über Bilder nachdenken muss. Meistens. Das war noch echtes Fotografieren, das war noch Kunst! Viele Besucher denken, während sie

durch die „Dunkelkammer“ gehen oder echte handkommentierte Kontaktabzüge und analoge Kameras unter Glas bestaunen, wehmütig an die gute alte Zeit zurück. 220 Bilder sind für diese Ausstellung ausgewählt worden, die sich in die Themenbereiche „Supermodels“, „Couturiers“, „Zeitgeist“, „Tanz“, „das Unbekannte“, „Dunkelkammer“, „Kinoleinwand“, „Ikonen“ und „Rotterdam Galerie“ gliedert. „Was wo hängt, haben wir auf den Zentimeter genau ausgetüftelt!“ sagt Peter Lindbergh. Er lebt seit bald 40 Jahren in New York und Paris, wird Ende November 72 und wenn er Deutsch spricht, dann hat er immer noch den unverkennbaren Zungenschlag Duisburgs. „Hat ja kein‘ Zweck, wenn man zu nett sein will!“ Zu nett wäre, wenn er einem Kurator die Auswahl der Bilder überlassen hätte, Kompromisse könne er nun mal nicht machen. Dann muss man nach drei Wochen hingehen und alles wieder ändern. Nein, da will Lindbergh lieber von Anfang an bei allem ein Mitspracherecht und das letzte Wort haben – so hat die Zusammenarbeit mit dem kanadischen Kurator, der selber in der Modewelt tätig war, gut funktioniert. Oder wie Lindbergh sagt: „Wir hatten kein‘ Krach!“ Und dann greift der Meister zu seinem Smartphone und drückt ab! Ja sicher, auch er macht „Telefon-Fotos“ wie er sagt, nur Schwarzweiß und die stellt er gleich online, auf Instagram. Er schwärmt von den schönen Filtern, die man da benutzen kann und wie toll das ist, wenn die Leute in Usbekistan und den allerletzten Winkeln dieser Welt seine Bilder liken. Nicht jeder Instagramer ist ein Fotograf, aber dass die Digitalisierung und die Bilderflut im Internet dem Beruf des Fotografen geschadet hätten, nein, darüber lacht er bloß. Sein Account heißt übrigens „the-real-Peter-Lindbergh“. Wie auch sonst?!

A DIFFERENT VISION ON FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

K Die Ausstellung ist bis zum 12.2.2017 in der Kunsthalle Rotterdam zu sehen, spezielle Angebote mit Übernachtung unter http://www.kunsthal.nl/ en/exhibitions/peter-lindbergh/

K Danach wird die Ausstellung Auch Tina Turner ist in Rotterdam zu sehen.

durch verschiedene Museen weltweit wandern, ab Frühjahr 2017 in München

Auf dem roten Teppich (v.l.n.r.): Tatjana Patitz, Cecilia Chancellor, Eva Herzigova, Peter Lindbergh und Cindy Crawford.

Essen. „Holland ist die geilste Stadt der Welt“ singen die 257ers. Natürlich haben die Jungs aus Essen-Kupferdreh völlig recht, wer wüsste das nicht besser als der gemeine Holland-Touri aus dem Ruhrpott? Ob der für seinen Trip zu den Nachbarn jemals nach einem Reiseführer verlangt hat, sei zwar dahin gestellt, aber gut: Auf fast 300 Seiten geben uns das Autoren-Ehepaar Alexandra und Ralf Johnen sowie Fotograf Hans Zaglitsch in ihrem Reiseführer „Niederländische Nordseeküste“ (Bruckmann Verlag, 15,99 €) tausende wertvolle Tipps für einen Aufenthalt eben dort. Von Zeeland mit der Partyhochburg Renesse zieht sich der rote Faden über die unterschätzte Minimetropole Den Haag, das futuristische Rotterdam und das überlaufende Amsterdam bis auf die nördlichsten Inseln Texel und Schiermonnikoog. Nach einer Beschreibung der jeweiligen Örtlichkeit und was sie denn so besonders anziehend macht, gehört ein Kasten mit Infos und Adressen zum Standard dieses Taschenbuchs. Den Abschluss bilden ein A-Z-Register sowie eine eingeheftete Reisekarte, damit auch keine Fragen mehr offen bleiben. Wer bald einen HollandUrlaub oder einfach nur das nächste Wochenende jenseits der Grenze plant, wird hier bestens bedient. Die NRZ und das Bruckmann Verlagshaus verlosen drei Exemplare des Buchs. Teilnahme bitte per EMail (Name und Postanschrift angeben) bis zum 28. September 2016 an regiodesk@nrz.de

„Zeit für das Beste“ verspricht das Buch mit den 1000 Küstentipps.. FOTO: VERLAG

AlmaTademas Meisterwerke zurück in Friesland Leeuwarden. Mehr als 80 Meisterwerke eines der erfolgreichsten Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts kommen zurück in dessen Heimat Friesland: Alma-Tademas Gemälde sind vom 1. Oktober bis 7. Februar Jahr 2017 unter dem Titel „Alma Tadema – Klassischer Charme“ im Friesischen Museum in Leeuwarden zu sehen. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 1912) war der erste, der in seinen Bildern das antike Rom zum Leben erweckte. In Hollywood zum Beispiel dienten Alma-Tademas Interpretationen als Grundlage für Filme über jene Epoche, von „Ben-Hur“ (1959) bis hin zu „Gladiator“ (2000). „Alma Tadema – Klassischer Charme“, Fries Museum Wilhelminaplein 92, 8911 BS Leeuwarden, 1. Oktober bis 7. Februar 2017, dienstags bis donnerstags von 11 bis 17 Uhr, www.friesmuseum.nl.

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LawrenceAlma-Tadema il pittore decadenteche inventó l esteticadi Hollywood '

ood MAURIZIO CECCHETTI LEEDWARDEN uando si sente dire che un artista ha il proprio rappresentato tempo , quel tempo storico che nelle sue sfumature segna area geografica e culturale più ampia dell appartenenza nazionale o , si dice , in fondo , che la sua locale universalitàè , in un certo senso , limitataa epoca ; Michelangelo o Caravaggio sono sicuramente collocati nel loro tempo , ma la loro opera interroga anche l uomo di perché la sua forza estetica ed oggi travalica il tempo storico espressiva nel quale è nata e di cul testimonia alcuni caratteri linguistici . Il ottocentesco è più che mai neogotico l espressione di un tempo storico , ma oggi la bellezza di quello che ha prodotto resta confinata in una temporalità ristretta che ci porta a guardare quelle opere con ottica archeologica. La seconda metà dell Ottocento , raccogliendo l eredità romantica della pittura di storia ha segnato l immaginario europeo grazie ad alcuni artisti che furono tra i più celebrati . Fra questi Lawrence Alma-Tadema( la pronuncia vuole l accento sulla prima a di Täde un'

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ma) , originario della Frisia , regione dell Olanda con nordica Leeuwarden per capoluogo . Se si vuole entrare davvero nel mondo dell olandese naturalizzato britannico Alma-Tadema oggi recarsi , a Leeuwarden , citta bisogna di ottantamila abitanti che diede inatali alla bella e celebre ballerina Mata Hari , condannata a morte per spionaggio nel 1917 dal tribunale di Parigi (otto degli undici colpi del plotone di esecuzione andarono a vuoto . ..). Il Fries Museum , modernissimo luogo espositivo che fa impallidire mold centri d arte contemporanea delle nostre blasonate città artistiche , ha appena aperto una esposizionesu Alma-Tadema con circa 80 opere . caso di , per la cronaca , che aggiungere Leeuwarden ha allestito la mostra in vista della ribalta a cul salirà nel 2018 come Capitale europea della cultura . Ein occasione dell inaugurazione della mostra sono stati anche i programmi presentati espositivi e i progetti che si stanno , fra questi una mostra predisponendo sulla fascinosa spia ballerina. Dire chi sia - in senso proprio -Alma-Tadema non cosa semplice. Partecipa di un gusto che somma richiami all arte classica , nel suo caso soprattutto romana ; ma '

che allo stile floreale , alle mitologie immaginate più che reali ; alla teatralità dei gesti e delle scenografie , che saturano di atmosfere esotiche l orizzonte culturale '

dominato da una borghesia europeo che nel femminile trova la propria cartina di tornasole ( seduzione , desiderio e misoginia si sposano alla perfezione nelle figure di vestali , principesse e regine che inscenano sofisticati ginecei-harem come nella grande tela Le rose di Eliogabalo del 1888) . La mostra si apre con un Autoritratto giovanile , quando il pittore ha 16 anni . Sguardo consapevole , da enfant prodige sicuro del talento. proprio La metà dell Ottocento , grazie anche alle missioni archeologiche , ripone)in auge il gusto per le antiche civiltà: i greci e gli egizi (già prima con Winckelmann e le campagne napoleoniche) , Roma e il mondo pompeiano col ritrovamenti a Ercolano e dintorni . Degas frequentò in quel periodo l Italia - la sua aveva radici partenopee famiglia oltrechéfrancesi - e tenne ampiamente conto di quanta emergeva dagli scavi . E Alma-Tadema non poteva non accorgersi di questa antichità che tornava alla luce dai antichità sepolcri della storia ; '

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di colori e gusti che , appunto , alla ricerca del mito. stimolavano Da giovane si era formato ad Anversa e, sposandosi , andò a vivere a Bruxelles . Rimasto vedovo con due figlie da crescere , Alma-Tadema nel 1871 sposò una nobildonna inglese , Laura Epps , che prestò le proprie fattezze a vari dipinti. Due anni dopo divenne a tutti gli effetti britannico , nel 1876 entrò alla Royal Academy ne11899 fu fatto cavaliere e nel 1907 ebbe l onore dell Order of Merit . Ma l apoteosi fu completa soltanto con analogheonoreficenze ottenute in Belgio , Germania , Francia , Austria , Spagna . Agli Uffizi èconservato un suo Autoritratto tardo , de11896 , espostoa Leeuwarden , che ci fa capire quanto la vita di questo artista sia stata tutta compresa dentro una società dalla parvenza aristocratica ma in realtà già borghese a cui egli offre uno specchio di elevata decadenza che lo rende prossimo a Mucha e Klimt , quanto nella sensibilità un meno morbosa per un colore che diventa il correlativo sfumato e profumato della carne femminile . La femme fataleall antica che rivive , per esempio, nella Gradiva di Jensen e in una idea del desiderio estenuante , perturbante , come avevano intuito Freud e Warburg. Poco prima che morisse mi trovai ne11998 a parlare con Federico Zeri di questa pittura inglese che lui considerava grande come quella impressionista . Capivo che per Zeri la qualità pittorica era un fatto dal valore tecnico , lontanissimo dell intensità espressa dalla forma che , nella stessa rapsodica" epoca , caratterizzava altro genere di arte moderna . E indubbiamente la qualità pittorica di è superlativa , si vede tanto Alma-Tadema ci si trova davanti a un quando più suo quadro non finito (Le menacli esauste dopo la danza de11873-74 , per esempio) , e si intuisce il lavoro che anticipa l preparatorio aperturadel sipario , quando la scena mostra tutti i suoi elementi '

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moti e perfettamente disposti. Ho accennato , all inizio , il discorso della durata trans-storica di un artista , e adesso mi chiedo: qual stato tempo di Alma-Tadema? Forse , ancor più di quello in cui visse , fu quell( successivo alla sua morte nel 1912 ; l epoca del cinema che ha cercato , come a , di far rivivere l antichità Hollywood romana , la sua imperiale grandezza , specchiando l America in ben riassunto dall idea quelorizzonte del Kolossal . ultima sala dedicata a questo legame fra proprio il cinema e la Roma immaginaria di Alma-Tadema (del resto anche Fischer von Erlach aveva ricreato architettura antica immaginata a partire dal gusto nelle ramificazioni che si archeologico) allunganofino al Gladiatore di Scott . Zeri vede così Ridley riconosciuta la sua predilezione per una pittura di cui , disse , i veri seguaci furono appunto i grandi cineasti americani. '

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Leeuwarden Una rassegna sul pittore olandese diventato britannico che nell 800 incarnò lo spirito del tempo" fra richiami all antichità e atmosfere decadenti . La sua pittura ispirò l industria cinematografica Usa, dagli anni 30 fino al Gladiatore" di Ridley Scott '

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Due opere di Alma-Tadema

, «Amo Te Ama Me» (1881) ; in alto a destra , «Coign of Vantage» (1895)

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Nel 2017, in occasione del centenario del movimento De Stijl, Amsterdam e numerose città dell'Olanda si preparano a ospitare mostre ed eventi dedicati al Dutch Design. FRANCESCA GREGO 07/10/2016

Mondo L’offerta culturale dei Paesi Bassi si arricchisce nei prossimi mesi di stimolanti novità. All’appeal intramontabile dei grandi musei di Amsterdam, di edifici storici e labirintici canali, si aggiungono il nuovo museo di arte contemporanea Voorlinden, le celebrazioni per il centenario di Mondriaan e del De Stijl, nonché un ghiotto palinsesto di mostre temporanee che, spaziando dalla pittura alla moda al design, getta luce nuova sui creativi olandesi di ogni tempo. Mostre ed esposizioni in corso in Olanda AlmaTadema: Classical Charm, al Fries Museum di Leeuwarden dal 1° ottobre, è un excursus fra 80 opere del grande pittore frisone (18361912) che trasformò la propria fascinazione per l’antica Roma in un’estetica di successo. Grazie alla diffusione

internazionale della sua opera, l’immaginario esotico e quotidiano di Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema è stato punto di riferimento per le più popolari rappresentazioni hollywoodiane del mondo antico, da BenHur (1959) a Il Gladiatore (2000). Al museo, oltre a numerosi oggetti legati all’affascinante storia e cultura della Frisia, si può osservare una sala dedicata alla spia e danzatrice Mata Hari, nata proprio nella cittadina medievale di Leeuwarden. È invece frutto della collaborazione fra due prestigiose istituzioni la mostra At home in Holland: Vermeer and his Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection , dal 29

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IL GABINETTO D'ORO: L'ULTIMA IRRIVERENZA DI CATTELAN

settembre alla Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery dell’Aja. Protagonisti più di 20 dipinti dell’epoca d’oro olandese, di proprietà della Corona britannica. La vita quotidiana nell’Olanda del Seicento è raccontata magistralmente da

MONDO | L'ITALIA FUORI DALLA TOP TEN MONDIALE. GLI UFFIZI AL 16° POSTO.

Johannes Vermeer e Una donna alla toletta di Jan Steen.

I MIGLIORI MUSEI DEL 2016 SECONDO TRIPADVISOR

Al Mauritshuis, che ha sede nel cuore della città in un edificio settecentesco affacciato

MILANO | 6 MOSTRE E NON SOLO

su un laghetto, è esposto permanentemente il meglio dell’arte olandese e fiamminga del

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scene di genere dei più grandi maestri dell’epoca, in primis la Lezione di musica di

secolo d’oro, compresi notissimi capolavori come La lezione di anatomia del dottor Tulp di Rembrandt e La ragazza col turbante di Vermeer.

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Tra l’altro dal 13 Ottobre al 18 Dicembre presso la Prince William V Gallery a cinque

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minuti a piedi dal Mauritshuis è possibile ammirare il capolavoro di Andrea Mantegna Ecce Homo, prestato per l’occasione dal Museée JacquemartAndré di Parigi. Ogni anno la galleria ospita in autunno un capolavoro proveniente da importanti istituzioni museali internazionali.

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Nel parco naturale di De Hoge Veluwe, al KröllerMüller Museum di Otterlo, dal 24 settembre il Van Gogh delle origini è messo in scena da un curatore d’eccezione, Auke van der Woud, autore di best seller sull’Olanda del XIX secolo. Attraverso una vivida contestualizzazione di circa 120 opere, fra dipinti, preziosi disegni

ROMA | DAL 29 SETTEMBRE 2016 AL 19 FEBBRAIO

e scritti dell’artista, The early Van Gogh: “work against indifference” mostra come

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uno dei massimi pittori di tutti i tempi sia giunto a delineare il proprio linguaggio

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originale. Da non perdere al KröllerMüller il giardino delle sculture e la collezione permanente, ricchi di opere di grandi dell’Ottocento e del Novecento, fra cui numerosi dipinti dello stesso Van Gogh, come il celebre Terrazza del caffè la sera, Place de Forum, Arles.

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Dal prossimo 26 novembre, infine, il Gemeentemuseum dell’Aja strizza l’occhio al

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cinema e alla moda. Hubert de Givenchy: To Audrey with Love, è un omaggio del couturier francese alla musa immortale Audrey Hepburn. Abiti mai esposti prima, schizzi, disegni, fotografie, materiale cinematografico e pubblicitario ripercorrono la lunga carriera del fashion designer, raccontando l’amicizia e la collaborazione artistica

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Il nuovo Museum Voorlinden Ma la vera novità di quest’autunno in Olanda è il Museum Voorlinden, inaugurato l’11 settembre nella cittadina di Wassenaar, residenza della famiglia reale a pochi chilometri dall’Aja. In una vasta tenuta fra i prati e le dune costiere, il nuovo museo di arte moderna e contemporanea sfoggia una collezione di rilievo mondiale e una struttura in cui ogni particolare è stato pensato per valorizzare e godere delle opere. Se il collezionista è Joop van Caldenborgh, businessman olandese nominato nel 2012 uomo più influente nel mondo dell’arte dei Paesi Bassi, il direttore è Wim Pijbes, proveniente nientemeno che dal Rijksmuseum.

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Nella leggera costruzione in vetro, pietra e acciaio trovano posto dipinti, collage,

sculture, installazioni, fotografie dei più grandi artisti dalla fine dell’Ottocento a oggi.

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Ambienti su misura sono stati creati per le opere contemporanee in esposizione permanente di Richard Serra, Leandro Erlich, Ron Mueck, James Turrell, Maurizio Cattelan.

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La mostra d’apertura Bloemlezing (Antologia) è dedicata al pittore astratto Ellsworth Kelly, il cui dipinto Blue Ripe fu uno dei primi pezzi della collezione van Caldenborgh. Cent’anni di De Stijl: da Mondriaan al Dutch Design Conto alla rovescia per i cent’anni del movimento De Stijl, fondato a Leida nel 1917 da Theo van Doesburg e destinato a esercitare un’influenza decisiva sull’arte, l’architettura e il design internazionali. Con la loro ricerca di “un’arte totalmente nuova” Piet Mondriaan e compagni posero le fondamenta del Dutch Design contemporaneo, fra le espressioni d’eccellenza dei Paesi Bassi. Le iniziative legate al centenario pongono l’accento proprio su questa continuità e sono un invito a esplorare il paese sulle tracce dei grandi innovatori del primo Novecento e dei loro eredi più talentuosi, capaci di migliorare il mondo con colori e geometrie. Per celebrare il centenario, nel 2017 si svolgeranno in tutti i Paesi Bassi numerosi eventi e mostre incentrati sul tema “Da Mondriaan al Dutch Design”. Nel frattempo gli appassionati potranno recarsi al Gemeentemuseum dell’Aja dove si trova la più grande collezione di opere di Mondriaan, al KröllerMüller Museum di Otterlo dove si possono ammirare i quadri di Bart van der Leck e a Utrecht per visitare la casa Rietveld Schröder costruita nel 1924 da Gerrit Rietveld e tuttora sorprendentemente all’avanguardia. Nella vivace Eindhoven si catalizzano i fermenti contemporanei: da non perdere la Casa del Design e la Settimana del Design Olandese, dal 22 al 30 ottobre.

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LEEUWAARDEN (OLANDA) Si innamorò dell'antichità classica durante il suo viaggio di nozze tra Roma e Pompei, poi la riportò sulla tela facendola rinascere: la carriera artistica di Sir Lawrence AlmaTadema (18361912) sarà protagonista al Fries Museum di Leeuwaarden (Olanda) nella grande mostra "AlmaTadema: Classical Charm", allestita dal 1 ottobre al 7 febbraio. Il percorso espositivo ospita circa 80 lavori, nei quali il pittore riuscì a ricreare la quotidianità del mondo antico in modo così convincente da sembrare veritiero. E i suoi lavori hanno contribuito di fatto a creare l'immagine attuale delle epoche classiche, arrivando addirittura al cinema. Un aspetto questo che la mostra mette in luce, documentando l'influenza che l'artista ebbe sull'industria cinematografica, dai primi anni della fondazione di Hollywood fino al XXI secolo: alcune sue riproduzioni dell'antichità sono state infatti utilizzate come blueprint per film epici quali Ben Hur (1959) e Il Gladiatore (2000). Nella collezione del Fries Museum anche un'opera chiave dell'artista, acquisita nel 2015, dal titolo "L'ingresso al teatro romano": una tela che per anni è stata in possesso dell'imprenditore statunitense William Vanderbilt, con la quale AlmaTadema conquistò il mercato americano e acquisì fama internazionale. RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA © Copyright ANSA

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Stuart Forster visits Leeuwarden, a European Capital of Culture in 2018, and enjoys the works of an artist who features frequently on TV’s Antiques Roadshow

EGULAR viewers of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow will recognise Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s paintin g of the etcher Leopold Löwenstam, an artwork currently displayed at the Frisian Museum at Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. The painting of Löwenstam at work was rediscovered by art expert Rupert Maas, a presenter on the television show, in an episode broadcast durin g September. It hangs as part of the AlmaTadema: Classical Charm exhibition that opened last weekend and continues until February 7, 2017. Leeuwarden becomes a European Capital of Culture in 2018 and the Alma-Tadema show is the first of three major exhibitions being held at the Frisian Museum over the next couple of years. All three focus on the lives of people born in or near the Frisian capital. The next exhibition will be about the life of Mata Hari, the exotic dancer and who was convicted of being a spy. She was born in Leeuwarden as Margaretha Zelle and executed by firing squad in Paris in 1917. The show will coincide with the centenary of that controversial event. MC Escher, the graphic artist, who was born in the city in 1898

It’s all in the name, so don’t expect a fry-up at this museum PICTURES: STUART FORSTER

which is owned by the billionaire Juan Antonio Pérez Simón. Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm includes paintings loaned from galleries and private collections around the world. In addition to displaying artworks and objects from his homes and studios, the exhibition features snippets from several of the films influenced by the artist’s carefully researched depictions of life in ancient times. Juxtaposed with his paintings are scenes from blockbusters, such as the 1959 William Wylerdirected film Ben-Hur, illustrating how Alma-Tadema’s imagery and use of light was mirrored by cinematographers from Edwardian times onwards. The Dutch name for the Frisian Museum is the Fries Museum (pronounced ‘frees’), which can result in some visitors from English-speaking lands mistakenly anticipating exhibitions relating to the triple-fried chipped potatoes that are such a popular snack across the Netherlands and neighbouring Belgium. The impressive, three-storey building — designed by Hubert-

THE city of Leeuwarden, seen from the Oldehove, a medieval leaning tower in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. The city is the capital of Friesland

and became renowned for perspective-warping scenes such as Relativity, will be featured during 2018. Many British art lovers are already familiar with the work of Alma-Tadema, who moved to

England in 1870 and lived in London for the rest of his life. That his remains are interred within St Paul’s Cathedral is testimony to the high regard in which the artist was held by his contemporaries. PICTURE ©2016 CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LIMITED

SIR Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses, 1904, on display at the Frisian Museum

Manchester Art Gallery’s collection holds seven of his works, including Silver Favourites, which was painted in 1903, four years after the artist was knighted by Queen Victoria. The boldly coloured painting depicts three Roman women on a curved marble bench overlooking a deep blue sea. It is typical of work from the artist’s later years. His paintings also hang in Liverpool’s public galleries and A Lover of Art, painted in 1868, features in the collection of Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Alma-Tadema’s works were collected by Victorian industrialists, making the artist a wealthy man, and his paintings were displayed internationally within his own lifetime. Collectors would p ay thousands of pounds for his paintings, most of which depict scenes from ancient times. His oeuvre is again coming into vogue. In 2010, an anonymous collector p aid almost $36m for The Finding of Moses, at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The painting was once owned by Allen Funt, of Candid Camera fame. Its price makes AlmaTadema the most valuable Victorian artist. The masterpiece is hun g in Leeuwarden just a few metres from The Roses of Heliogabalus,

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Jan Henket — overlooks the Wilhelminaplein, a square that on Fridays hosts a weekly market. Fruit and vegetables, Dutch cheeses and fish products number among the items sold at the market’s stalls. Anyone looking for fries—or, for that matter, traditional delicacies such as maatjes (herrings) or even Turkish-style snacks — can purchase portions from the numerous food trucks that park on the square for the duration of the market. The spacious museum opened in 2013 after being funded by an 18m bequest from Abe Bonnema, the Frisian architect. Walking its broad staircase provide an opportunity to view Dutch and Frisian words displayed side by side. The region’s language is officially recognised and spoken by in excess of 400,000 people. The second floor houses the Frisian Resistance Museum which tells the harrowing story of the impact of the Nazi occupation on Friesland. It features eyewitness accounts and an evocative collection of artefacts. The first murderous round-up of Jewish inhabitants took place

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A BICYCLE parked in central Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Canals were once the most effective means of transport in Friesland

in April 1942. By February, 1943 the overwhelmin g majority of Leeuwarden’s con gregation, which numbered 733 in 1930, had been deported. Betje and Roosje Cohen, twin sisters, were born in 1881 and survived into the 1950s. They were the daughters of Salomon Cohen, who made his money shining shoes at the city’s railway station. The women lost five brothers and two sisters during the Holocaust. Roosje was a recognisable figure at the city’s Friday market, working there from the age of 10. It’s thought she survived because of her marriage to the cigar manufacturer Johannes van Dijk. A memorial to both sisters, sculpted by Karianne Krabbendam, stands in the city and Roosje’s story is told as p art of an audio trail through Leeuwarden. The city’s Jewish population peaked at around 1,400 in the late 19th century, partially as a result of being swelled by immigration from eastern Europe. The growth in numbers resulting in the synagogue, at Sacramentsstaat 19, being extended in

the 1860s, according to a design laid down by the architect Herman Rudolph Scott. The place of worship was erected in 1805 and stood at the heart of the largest Jewish community in the northern Netherlands. Community buildin gs were built nearby. A monument bearing the Star of David, inscribed in Dutch and Hebrew, marks the

❝ Salomon made his money shining shoes

site of a school that stood from 1886 until 1943. Followin g the Second World War, the Jewish population of Leeuwarden climbed above 100 but soon declined, in part due to emigration. Consequently, the synagogue was converted for communal use by the city’s general population. A number of objects from the decommissioned place of worship can now be viewed at the Jewish

Historical Museum in Amsterdam. By rail, Amsterdam is around two hours’ travelling time from Leeuwarden, which has direct connections with Schiphol Airport. To orientate within Leeuwarden, nowhere can match the observation platform at the top of the Oldehove, the city’s most iconic landmark. The leanin g tower stands 39 metres tall, less than a third of the structure’s intended 120metre height. Jacob van Aken realised the ground he was building on was sinking shortly after construction began and abandoned the project in 1533. Inevitably, comp arisons are made with the Oldehove’s famous counterpart in Pisa. Over the next couple of years it’s likely that visitor numbers to this comp act Dutch city will grow markedly. For anyone who appreciates art and heritage, Leeuwarden warrants a visit and proves a pleasant base for exploring attractions elsewhere in Friesland.

LEEUWARDEN AND FRIESLAND ■ Stay abreast of Leeuwarden’s European Capital of Culture programme by visiting the www.2018.nl website.

■ The www.friesland.nl and www.holland.com websites are both sources of information on things to do and see in and around Leeuwarden.

ROOSSJE Cohen's former residence in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Cohen was born in 1881 and worked at the city’s weekly market

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Alma-Tadema show includes most expensive classical Victorian piece Alma-Tadema show includes most expensive classical Victorian piece

The $36m painting is among the artworks by the British-based Dutch artist that will go on display in the Netherlands this week The most expensive classical Victorian painting ever sold - The Finding of Moses, which inspired Cecil B DeMille's biblical epic The Ten Commandments, the most expensive film ever at the time of its release in 1956 - is going on public display this week for the first time since the record-breaking auction in New York six years ago. The appropriately epic exhibition of the work of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, famed for his paintings of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and whose reputation was kept alive among filmmakers when his work fell out of fashion, is one of the largest ever held. The show at the Fries Museum in the Netherlands also includes the first public view of a lost masterpiece that made international headlines when it resurfaced last month on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. The affectionate portrait of Alma-Tadema's engraver Leopold Lรถwenstam was described as one of the best ever seen on the programme. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both paintings will be included when the show comes next year to London, where the artist made his reputation and his fortune. The Finding of Moses has not been displayed in the UK for more than a century, and the portrait of Lรถwenstam, which had remained with the engraver's descendants, has never been in a public exhibition. The show opens in the artist's native city of Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland, which will take over the title of European capital of culture in 2018. The city's spectacular new museum has an important collection of his work, including many donations from his family, but because so much of it was sold in the US and the UK, he is almost unknown there. The London exhibition, from July 2017, will be in the studio home of his friend and

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fellow artist Lord Leighton, which is now a museum. Its spectacular Arab-inspired interiors were rivalled by the sumptuous London homes Alma-Tadema created with his second wife, the artist Laura Epps. They fell in love when she was 17 and he was 34. He settled permanently in London from 1870, and was knighted by Queen Victoria. The couple's first home was destroyed when a barge full of sugar and gunpowder blew up on the nearby Regent's Canal - a scene of devastation recorded in a photograph - but they moved to an even larger house, where his agent grumbled that Alma-Tadema spent too much time on interior decorating rather than painting. Even at the height of his fame his temples, palaces and Roman maidens lolling on marble benches were not to every taste: the critic John Ruskin, a passionate advocate of the very different work of JMW Turner, described Alma-Tadema as "the worst painter of the 19th century". He died in 1912, and fell so out of fashion that in the 1960s The Finding of Moses was cut out and rolled up when a gallery could only find a buyer for the elaborate frame. But he was revered by generations of filmmakers and designers - the exhibition traces his influence from the first silent movies up to Ridley Scott's 2000 film Gladiator. Scott's production designer, Arthur Max, who attended the exhibition opening, recalled that the team worked with a sheaf of reproductions of Alma-Tadema paintings. Facebook Twitter Pinterest "His work has been dismissed as 'Victorians in togas' but younger scholars - and younger viewers - don't bring that baggage to it and instead see his outstanding quality," the co-curator Peter Trippi said. "It's not all white marble in sunlight. The wealthy English and American buyers loved his work because they saw themselves as the new Romans - but they missed the fact that he also portrayed the darkness and corruption of that world." His auction prices had been rising steadily, but jaws dropped in 2010 when The Finding of Moses went for $35.9m (ÂŁ22m) - seven times the highest pre-sale estimate - at a Sotheby's sale in New York. It is believed to have been bought by an investment group but had not been seen since. "There's no use putting the thumb screws on us, we don't know the identity of the owners ourselves - but we are absolutely delighted to have been able to include it," the co-curator Elizabeth Prettejohn said.

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Alma-Tadema was born in a small village just outside Leeuwarden, but was brought up and educated in the city, until he dropped out at 16 to become an artist. He has been completely overshadowed there by his fellow townsfolk - the exotic dancer and spy Mata Hari, and the artist MC Escher. Their houses are marked, and Mata Hari is commemorated with a small bronze statue showing one of her famous costumes of pearls and little else. None of Alma-Tadema's homes are marked, and Hans Dekker, a lecturer in tourism, was astonished to open his front door at the weekend to find the city's mayor, Ferd Crone, on his doorstep trying out a new Alma-Tadema history trail now being created. "I had no idea, I am glad to know it," Dekker said on learning that he lives in the artist's earliest home in the city. "Alma-Tadema has been a secret in the Netherlands," Crone said, "but one we now hope to share with many people." Alma Tadema - Classical Charm is at the Fries Museum until 7 February 2017; the Belvedere Museum in Vienna from 23 February to 18 June; and the Leighton House Museum from 7 July to 29 October.

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Travelers to the Netherlands might consider a stop in the town of Leeuwarden in the northern part of the country, just several hours by car or train from Amsterdam, for a major retrospective of Dutch-born artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The exhibition “Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm” will present about 200 items, including more than 80 paintings and dozens of drawings, prints, and personal objects from the artist’s studio in what organizers say is the largest display of the painter’s work in the last century. The show is on view through February 7, 2017 at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, where Alma-Tadema lived as a boy. The city is designated as a European Capital of Culture for 2018 by the European Union (and was once home to dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari, who was executed on charges of espionage for Germany.

“The Coign of Vantage” (detail), 1895, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty, on view at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Alma-Tadema, a painter in the classical tradition, was popular and successful during his lifetime, particularly in England and America. He was known for his storytelling through paintings that portray domestic and everyday life in the ancient world. “He transports viewers,” the museum said, “and truly brings history to life,” with his masterful use of space, and knowledge of archaeology and classical antiquity. The exhibition explores Alma-Tadema’s personal and professional life, including how his imagery influenced the film industry with convincing depictions that were used as blueprints for epic movies, like “Ben-Hur” and “The Ten Commandments.” The director Ridley Scott, for example, studied the painter’s works when making films “Gladiator” (2000) and Exodus (2014), according to the museum.

“Amo Te Ama Me,” 1881, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; from the Fries Museum’s permanent collection and currently on view.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 – 1912) was born Lourens AlmaTadema, studied painting in Antwerp and worked in Brussels until moving to London in 1870, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He became a British subject and was knighted in 1899. “When he died,” the museum noted, “London came to a standstill for his funeral and he was interred like a celebrity in St Paul’s Cathedral.” In its obituary in 1912, The New York Times wrote: “His maidens were garbed in flowing chitons; they lounged on marble benches or played by the blue waters of the Mediterranean, but in spirit and in actual form they were taken from the girls that he saw around him, and so his work was singularly free from stilted affectation.”

“The Roses of Heliogabalus,” 1888, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Colección Pérez Simón on view at the Fries Museum. (photo courtesy Arturo Piera)

Dozens of paintings are on loan from the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Tate Britain in London, the Prado in Madrid and other institutions, as well as from private collectors. Among the works on display is “Entrance of the Theatre,” which was acquired in 2015 by the Fries Museum and is now part of its permanent collection. Many paintings will be shown to the public for the first time in years. Complimenting the show will be an audio tour (available in English); a book about the life and work of the artist; a children’s book; activities and workshops; and a film program. If you can’t make it to Leeuwarden, the works will be on view in Vienna from February 23 to June 18, 2017 at the Belvedere, and in London from July 7 to October 29 2017 at the Leighton House Museum. For more information about the exhibit, click here.

Leeuwarden, capital of Friesland, produced Rembrandt’s beloved wife Saskia Uylenburgh, along with Mata Hari and M.C. Escher. But there’s another native son who’s been largely forgotten since his heyday in Victorian London. “AlmaTadema: Classical Charm” at the Fries Museum hopes to change that with a dazzling retrospective on the distinctive 19th century painter (October 1, 2016 to February 7, 2017).

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Coign of Vantage (detail), 1895, oil on canvas, 58.88 x 44.45 cm, Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty Eighty paintings have been assembled from private collections and museums around the world by curators Elizabeth Prettejohn, Head of Art History at the University of York, and Peter Trippi, a New York-based independent scholar of 19th century British art. “Alma Tadema: Classical Charm” is organized chronologically — from a teenage self-portrait to his late masterpiece The Finding of Moses which sold for a record smashing $36 million in 2010.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Finding of Moses, 1904, oil on canvas, 137.7 x 213.4 cm, Private Collection, courtesy Christie’s. Photo © 2016 Christie’s Images Limited Born in the village of Dronrijp in Friesland in 1836, Lourens Alma Tadema moved to nearby Leeuwarden with his Mennonite family at age three. After studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the ambitious painter set up a studio in Brussels. It was on his honeymoon to Rome and Pompeii in 1863 that he fell in love with antiquity.

Within a year or two, Alma Tadema was producing his first Roman-themed paintings. Inspired by the ruins of ancient Rome and Pompeii, his everyday scenes took on a mythic quality. The artist owned over 160 volumes of photographs of Greek and Roman antiquities. A selection of the antiquities he collected and his Italian sketches are on view. In 1870, recently widowed with two young daughters, Alma Tadema relocated to London where his Belgian dealer had a gallery. Roman antiquity was highly fashionable, and many English and American collectors were smitten by his exotic, seductive evocations of the classical world. He changed his name to Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The “Sir” followed in 1899 when he was knighted by Queen Victoria. The painter’s second wife Laura Theresa Epps, and his daughter Anna Tadema were also artists; the show features 18 of their works, along with dozens of drawings, prints, and studio objects. Many were gifts from AlmaTadema and his daughters to the Fries Museum. There are also watercolors and drawings of Alma-Tadema’s costume and stage designs for London productions of Coriolanus andJulius Caesar.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Amo Te Ama Me, 1881, oil on panel, 17.5 x 38.0 cm; 42.2 x 57.6 cm (frame), Collection Museum of Friesland, Leeuwarden

In the 1880s, the close-knit family moved to a stunning 66-room house and studio in fashionable St. John’s Wood. Decorated from top to bottom in Roman style, this “enchanted palace” attracted frequent guests and clients. A Hall of Panels featuring gifts from friends, including Sir Frederic Leighton and John Singer Sargent, has been reassembled. Reproductions of his works helped make Alma-Tadema famous internationally. A portrait of the etcher responsible, Leopold Löwenstam, recently resurfaced after more than a century on the BBC television program Antiques Roadshow. After Löwenstam fell in love with Alma-Tadema’s nanny, the artist gave the painting to her as a wedding present.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Portrait of Leopold Löwenstam, the etcher, 1883, oil on canvas, 52.1 x 64.7 cm, Private Collection, England

When Alma-Tadema died in 1912, the celebrated 74-year-old artist was buried at St Paul’s Cathedral. Shortly after his death, he abruptly fell out of favor. Art historians considered his paintings kitschy, but filmmakers were inspired by the luxe scenes of ancient Egypt and Rome. Hollywood directors Cecil B. DeMille, William Wyler and Stanley Kubrick looked to Alma-Tadema’s décor and costumes for their blockbusters Cleopatra, Ben-Hur, and Spartacus. More recently, director Ridley Scott studied Alma-Tadema for Gladiator. This connection is vividly illustrated in a spacious gallery where film clips play directly above Alma-Tadema’s colorful paintings. “Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm” travels to the Belvedere in Vienna next year (February 23 to June 18) and Leighton House Museum in London, former home and studio of Sir Frederic Lord Leighton (July 7 to October 29). The exhibition kicks off a calendar of events in Leeuwarden-Fryslân, chosen as the European Capital of Culture for 2018. From Amsterdam, Leeuwarden is an hour and ten minutes north by car and two hours and fifteen minutes by train. For more information, visit http://www.friesmuseum.nl/en/see-anddo/exhibitions/alma-tadema-1/ Susan Jaques’ recent biography, The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia was published in April by Pegasus Books.

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These articles were published after several press related activities organized by NBTC Holland Marketing. NBTC organized the press trip in collaboration with the Fries Museum, Merk FryslĂ˘n and Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018.