Iran’s ‘Kupal’, ‘The Fox’ receive Philippines’ Cebu awards
Two Iranian films ‘Kupal’ and ‘The Fox’ won awards at the 7th Cebu International Film Festival in the Philippines. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain is presenting ‘Van Gogh to Picasso: The Thannhauser Legacy’, featuring the celebrated Thannhauser Collection gifted to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and marking the first time the majority of the collection as such leaves New York to be exhibited elsewhere.
The show includes 50 works by a number of the most well recognized Impressionists, Post-impressionists, and modern masters, such as Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh.
Thannhauser Collection is a bequest of 19th- and early-20th-century art given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation by Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser.
Justin K. Thannhauser was the son of the German art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser, who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Justin K. worked alongside his father
Directed by Kazem Mollaie, the feature film ‘Kupal’ took the Special Jury Prize while Sadeq Javadi’s short animated piece ‘The Fox’ grabbed the best short film award at this festival. ‘Kupal’ narrates the story of a hunter and taxidermist who goes through an unfortunate incident by trapping himself in his basement with little food and no water, having in the flourishing gallery and helped build an impressive and versatile exhibition program that included the French Impressionists and Post-impressionists and regularly featured contemporary German artists.
For example, the Moderne Galerie presented the premier exhibitions of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (New Artists’ Association of Munich) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), both of which included Vasily Kandinsky, in 1909 and 1911, respectively. The Thannhausers also mounted in 1913 one of the first major Pablo Picasso retrospectives, thus initiating the close relationship between Justin K. Thannhauser and Picasso that lasted until the artist’s death in 1973, artdaily.com reported.
An ambitious businessman, Justin K. Thannhauser opened a second gallery in Lucerne in 1919 with his cousin Siegfried to survive by using creative and desperate means. The storyline of Kupal and the tagline is, ‘you can’t be alone in this world!’
‘The Fox’ is about a young and lively fox that is caught by a hunter when experiencing its first love. The hunter puts a bell around the fox’s neck and returns it to the woods. The bell prevents the fox from hunting and leading a normal life in the woods and it soon realizes that its only way to survive is to be tamed and go back to the hunter.
Cebu International Film Festival, according to the event’s website, aims to gather global filmmakers to celebrate the art and craft of filmmaking, promoting valuable cross-cultural partnerships, and sharing inspirational stories across the globe.
The seventh edition of the festival was held from September 18-23 in Cebu, the Philippines. Rosengart. Eight years later, the highly successful Thannhauser galleries relocated their Munich gallery to the thriving art center of Berlin. There, the dealer organized major exhibitions of the work of such artists as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet. Business operations were nonetheless hindered in the next decade with the establishment of a Nazi government bent on purging the ‘degenerate art’ of the avant-garde.
Thannhauser gallery in Berlin closed in 1937, shortly after Justin K. Thannhauser and his family immigrated to Paris. Thannhauser eventually settled in New York in 1940 and established himself as a private art dealer.
Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic innovation paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim. In appreciation of this shared spirit, Justin K. Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including more than 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which owns and operates the eponymous museum in New York. Selections from the Thannhauser Collection have been on view at the Guggenheim since 1965.
A bequest of ten additional works received after the death of Hilde Thannhauser, Justin’s second wife and widow, in 1991, augmented the Guggenheim’s holdings and enhanced the legacy of this family of important art dealers. This landmark presentation of the Thannhauser Collection at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will not only trace the development of modernism at the turn of the century, but also underscore the Thannhauser family’s steadfast support of experimental art.