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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. And one of the most striking works in the exhibition is a reconstruction of Facade for “Die Zeit” Newspaper, by Otto Wagner.Įgon Schiele’s women at Richard Nagy London (exhibition, 2011) The exhibition features many excellent examples of decorative arts, showing the strong juxtapositions between the two major designers of the period: Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann. “Vienna: Art & Design” also showcases Egon Schiele’s striking portraits (such as “Portrait of a Boy I – Herbert Rainer”) and erotic studies (such as “Nude with checked slipper”). The exhibition also includes a facsimile of the famous “Beethoven Frieze”. An important group of his paintings are displayed at the show, including four great female portraits: “Portrait of Emilie Flöge” (1902) from the Wien Museum, Vienna the “Portrait of Fritza Riedler” (1906) and the “Johanna Staude” (1917–18), both from the Belvedere, Vienna and the “Portrait of Hermine Gallia” (1904) from the The National Gallery, London.
Gustav Klimt is the main star of the exhibition. The press note of the exhibition starts with this suggestive paragraph: “ Stylish, provocative, rebellious and unforgettable – the world has seen nothing like Vienna in 1900“. The exhibition explores an extraordinary period of artistic and intellectual flowering, the Vienna Secession Movement. Vienna: Art & Design from the 1900s in Melbourne 300 great works by the greatest Viennese artists of the early 20th century -including Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka- are on display at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 18 June–09 October 2011.]]> Portrait of a Boy I (Herbert Rainer) 1910 Iraqis living in Ireland this evening held a victory parade in Dublin.The Beethoven Frieze: Central wall 1901-02 There were similar scenes in the mainly Shi'ite southern port of Basra and the northern Kurdish centre of Kirkuk. Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of some cities, firing in the air to celebrate the news.īlaring car horns and volleys of automatic rifle fire echoed across Baghdad as people drove around the city. He said that hopefully, stability would be restored to Iraq, with a new administration in place sooner rather than later. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said that his thoughts were with the Iraqi people, who had suffered great hardship during Saddam's vicious regime. The leaders of Russia, France and Germany, hailed his arrest as a turning point for the people of Iraq. In a direct message to the Iraqi people, he said that they would never have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein again.īut he warned that the capture did not mean violence in Iraq would end, or that the war against terror was over.īritish Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the shadow of Saddam has finally lifted from the Iraqi people, adding that it was they who would ultimately decide his fate. He said it was the end of the road for him and for all who killed and bullied in his name. In a broadcast a short while ago, US President George Bush confirmed the former Iraqi leader's capture and said he would now face the justice he denied to millions. While the former dictator is being questioned at an undisclosed location, the Iraqi Governing Council, to whom the coalition will hand over power next year, says that Saddam will be tried in a special court with a panel of five judges and international legal observers. Two Iraqis who tried to flee the scene were also arrested by some of the 600 American troops involved in Operation Red Dawn. Video pictures of the former Iraqi president after his capture, with long hair and a grey beard, were shown at a news conference as he underwent a medical examination. The US military said that Saddam was not injured in the raid and was in good health, although bewildered and disorientated. An orange and white taxi was parked nearby. With him were two AK-47 rifles, a pistol and $750,000. The toppled dictator surrendered to US forces after being cornered hiding alone in a hole in the ground under a hut near a farmhouse in the village of Ad Dawr. Saddam Hussein is tonight in American custody after being captured near his hometown of Tikrit last night.