Highlights
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13 Sep 2011 to 29 Jan 2012My Culture Planner
Art in Wuppertal
Alfred Sisley—The Von der Heydt-Museum celebrates the "true impressionist"
Alfred Sisley felt that aside from the object of the painting—the motif—the most interesting thing about a landscape is movement, life. To create the illusion of life was the most important thing in a work of art for him. We see it in his brushstrokes. more...
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1 Jan 2011 to 31 Jan 2012My Culture Planner
Art in Essen
The Permanent Collection of the Ruhr Museum in Essen
The Ruhr Museum has no comparison. A natural history museum, archaeological museum, historical museum, architectural museum, and perhaps a local heritage museum would have to come together. Ruhr Museum is a hybrid as its director Ulrich Borsdorf likes to emphasize. more...
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29.01.12 11:00 amMy Culture Planner
Music in Leverkusen
Jürgen Hocker at Museum Morsbroich
The era of music machines experienced its first golden epoch in the 1920s, when the mechanical virtuosity of the self-playing piano took hold of composers such as Stravinsky. But the real Big Bang followed twenty years later when ... more...
Venues
Schlosstheater Moers
Schlosstheater Moers is Germany’s smallest municipal theater, the initiative of Holk Freytag who became founding director in 1975. Freytag’s committed experimental theater and his ensemble attracted a lot of interest before he moved on to the playhouse in Wuppertal and then Dresden. The ancient Gree more...
