Month: April 2011

September 9, 2005 – October 1, 2005

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1952, John Lurie moved to New York in 1976. With his brother, Evan, he formed the musical group The Lounge Lizards in 1978.

In the mid-80’s, Lurie scored and starred in the cult classic films Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law. He has scored countless films, and was nominated for a grammy for his score on Get Shorty. In the late 1990’s, Lurie directed and acted in his own television series, ‘Fishing with John’, which has been described as ‘Jacques Cousteau on LSD’. Lurie has been drawing and painting for 30 years.

Illness has caused him to stop playing music and for the last three years he has focused his creative energies, entirely on painting. Lurie adds: “I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me. I am not an Indian.”

November 27, 2008 – December 30, 2008

May 12, 2005 – July 5, 2005

April 8, 2005 – April 30, 2005

The gallery is priviliged to present, for the first time, key sculptural works from Ferdinand Anton’s private collection of Ancient American Art.

Ferdinand Antons great love of pre-columbian art began in the early 1950’s, during his time as a cultural correspondent for the BBC. Through Henry Moore, he became acquainted with the art of ancient american cultures. From 1949 to 2003 he received international acclaim for his archivements as an archaeologist, journalist, author, photographer, director, as well as uncompromising adviser and expert to collectors, museums and professionals. His numerous publications andcuratorial work for national and internatinal institutions contributed significantly to a renewed interest in the art of cultures that were largely forgotten or neglected.In showing selected works from his excellent private collection we hope to do justice to Ferdinand Anton’s great expertise and appreciation of art made by these facinating cultures.

February 4, 2005 – April 2, 2005

‘Aurora Argentina: From Santa Fé to Tucumán – Cyanotypes by Georges Poulet’ is the first exhibition of early photographs to be mounted by the Galerie Daniel Blau in its new premises on Munich’s Odeonsplatz. The cyanotypes of Georges Poulet (Paris 1848 – after 1921) take us on a journey through Argentina, showing us the country and its people as they tell the story of how a railway was constructed from Santa Fé to Tucumán in the remote mountains of north-western Argentina.

Between 1890 and 1894 Poulet produced two series of cyanotypes in Argentina, including some multipartite panoramas. The more than one hundred photographs show scenes in the city and port of Santa Fé, rivers, swamps, grassy plateaux, villages, workers and local inhabitants.

Poulet’s cyanotypes of the railway construction in Argentina convey the full flavour of the pioneering spirit so characteristic of the nineteenth century. They also reveal a desire to record technological processes in an artistic way. The misty blues of the cyanotypes bathe the views selected and arranged by the photographer in a quite special atmosphere, the elegantly written captions in red ink at the bottom turning each sheet into a unified whole.

The exhibition is accompanied by a copiously illustrated publication in German and English with essays by Daniel Oggenfuss and Pirkko Rathgeber and a catalogue of all Poulet’s Argentinian cyanotypes. The catalogue is available from the Galerie Daniel Blau.

October 13, 2004 – November 15, 2004

November 20, 2003 – January 23, 2004

June 1, 2001 – July 31, 2001

December 9, 2000 – January 27, 2001

September 8, 2006 – October 14, 2006