From the Untold Story of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood to Caravaggio Meets Bernini, Here Are 13 Unmissable Museum Shows to See in Europe This Fall

There’s nothing like Europe in the fall. From Frieze in London
to FIAC in Paris, there’s plenty of art-market action and,
as the summer tourists leave town and the foliage outside
begins its colorful transformation, the season provides the perfect
setting to take in the culture at some of the world’s best
museums.

Adding to our round-up of must-see shows in 2019,
museums have now released their programming for the second half of
the year, and it promises great things. Curators and their
colleagues have pulled out all the stops to organize this fall’s
blockbuster art shows. Here are 13 must-see exhibitions opening
across Europe.

“Caravaggio & Bernini” at Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna

WHAT: Two Italian heavyweights of the Baroque period go
head-to-head in Vienna this fall when the city’s Kunsthistorisches
Museum pairs paintings by Caravaggio with sculptures by Bernini.
They are accompanied by a supporting cast of impressive
international loans of fellow “Baroquestars”
including Artemisia Gentileschi, Annibale Carracci, and
Nicolas Poussin.

WHERE: Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Vienna, Austria

WHEN: October 15,
2019–January 19, 2020

“Lee Krasner” at Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

WHAT: After a critically acclaimed debut
in London, this Lee Krasner survey heads to Frankfurt. The
comprehensive exhibition includes early self-portraits from the
late 1920s, nudes in char­coal, works from her renowned
“Little Images” series, as well as classic works painted after the
death of her husband, Jackson Pollock. The show, which is the first
of its kind to come to Europe in over 50 years, confirms the female
artist’s pioneering role in the development of Abstract
Expressionism.

WHERE: Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg, 60311
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

WHEN: October 11,
2019–January 12, 2020

“Pre-Raphaelite Sisters”
at National Portrait Gallery, London

WHAT: This exhibition focuses on the often
overlooked role of women in the male-dominated Pre-Raphaelite
movement. (It wasn’t called the “brotherhood” for nothing.)
Paintings, photographs, manuscripts, and personal items of 12 women
who were central to the movement, including artists Evelyn de
Morgan, Effie Millais, and Elizabeth Siddal will be on show. The
exhibition aims to shed light on these remarkable women who were
more than models and muses, but also artists in their own
right.

WHERE: National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin’s
Pl, Charing Cross, London WC2H 0HE, UK

WHEN: October 17,
2019–January 26, 2020

“Nam June Paik: The Future
Is Now” at Tate Modern, London

WHAT: Tate Modern is mounting a survey show of the
Korean-American artist Nam June Paik. In homage to Paik’s role as a
pioneer in the use of TV and video in art, the show promises to
turn the London galleries into a “mesmerizing riot of sights and
sounds.” Featuring more than 200 works spanning the artist’s
five-decade career, highlights include his renowned 1993
installation Sistine Chapel, as well as a nod to his
partnerships with other avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians
like John Cage.

WHERE: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG,
UK

WHEN: October 17,
2019–February 9, 2020

“Making Van Gogh” at Städel Museum,
Frankfurt

WHAT: The Städel Museum presents a major
exhibition—the largest in its history—focused on the Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh, deep-diving into his pioneering role and his
influence on German Expressionism at the beginning of the 20th
century. Aside from showing more than 50 works by Van Gogh and
another 70 artworks by Modernist artists, “Making Van Gogh” will
consider how German art dealers, collectors, critics, and museums
helped bolster the troubled painter’s career.

WHERE: Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

WHEN: October 23,
2019–February 16, 2020

“Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse
Drawings” at mumok, Vienna

WHAT: Eva Hesse’s rarely seen graphic works will be
presented at mumok, Vienna’s museum of modern art, this winter. The
show reflects the diversity of the American artist whose playful
practice spanned surrealism to conceptual art. It’s set to be an
expansive selection of works on paper, ranging from early
figurative studies to abstract-expressive scribbles. The works are
on loan from the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Ohio, where Hesse’s
archive is also located.

WHERE: mumok, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna,
Austria

WHEN: November 16,
2019–February 16, 2020

“Carlos Amorales – The Factory”
at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

WHAT: The first-ever retrospective exhibition in
Europe of the work of Carlos Amorales will open this winter in
Amsterdam. One of the most important contemporary artists in
Mexico, Amorales started his career as a student of the Gerrit
Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademiein in Amsterdam in the
1990s. The exhibition includes installations, paintings, and
drawings, as well as animations and sound works.

WHERE:  Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, 1071
DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands

WHEN: November 23,
2019–April 26, 2020

“Tell me about yesterday
tomorrow” at the Documentation Centre for the History of
National Socialism, Munich

WHAT: The project “tell me about yesterday tomorrow”
seeks to bring together contemporary art that deals with collective
memory. Organized by the German curator Nicolaus Schafhausen,
the former director of
Kunsthalle Wein, more than 30 artists will react to
complexities in German history, and present how social
radicalization is a global issue. The exhibition will be held in
the Documentation Centre in Munich, a city that was seen as the de
facto capital of the Nazi movement after Hitler’s failed Beer Hall
Putsch brought him to wider attention. The documentation center is
built on the site of the former “Brown House,” which was once the
headquarters of the National Socialist party.

WHERE: Documentation Centre for the History of
National Socialism, Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 Munich,
Germany

WHEN: November 28,
2019–August 30, 2020

 “Albert Oehlen & Caroll
Dunham – Trees” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

WHAT: The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will show the US artist
Carroll Dunham in dialogue with German artist Albert Oehlen,
juxtaposing the two artists for the first time. Each will present
their individual interpretations on the subject of trees, a motif
that both have returned to repeatedly in their work. While Dunham’s
movement-filled works tend to picture trees in bloom, Oehlen’s
trees are leafless, with roots dominating the scene.

WHERE: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz 4,
40213 Düsseldorf, Germany

WHEN: November 30,
2019–March 8, 2020

“Masterpieces from the
Collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen: From Delacroix to
Beckmann” at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

WHAT: The collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany
will be presented to a Spanish audience for the first time in a
wide-ranging presentation spanning works from the Romantic era to
Impressionism, late Impressionism, and Expressionism. Works by
German Impressionists, such as Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth,
will be shown alongside French Impressionists like Claude Monet,
Edgar Degas, and Pierre-August Renoir, giving an overview of the
movement across different areas in Europe.

WHERE: Guggenheim Museum, Abandoibarra Etorb.
2, 48009 Bilbao, Spain

WHEN: October 25,
2019–February 16, 2020

“Defiant Muses: Delphine
Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s
and 1980s” at Museo Centro de Arte, Madrid

WHAT: The Museo Centro de Arte in Madrid is paying
homage to history’s “Defiant Muses” in a new show that will
explore the legacy of feminist video collectives and the histories
connecting cinema, video, and feminism in France. The show will
include artworks, photographs, and archival documents that touch on
the intersection between activism and feminism. Audiences will
learn about the Lebanese-born French actor and film director
Delphine Seyrig, an activist known for her idealized and
sophisticated femininity. Together with other activist filmmakers
on the French scene, Seyrig was instrumental in film becoming an
emancipatory tool for the feminist movement.

WHERE: Museo Centro de Arte, Calle Santa Isabel, 52,
28012 Madrid, Spain

WHEN: September 25,
2019–March 23, 2020

“Tiepolo” at
Staatsgallerie Stuttgart

WHAT: To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the
death of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the Staatsgallerie Stuttgart is
pulling out all of its impressive holdings of Tiepolo works. With
additional loans of paintings, drawings and prints from all over
the world, the show will cover an entire range of the career of the
Venetian master.

WHERE: Staatsgallerie, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße
30-32, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

WHEN: October 11,
2019–February 2, 2020

“Leonardo da Vinci” at the Musée du
Louvre, Paris

WHAT: Despite fierce political tussling over
agreed loans to the French museum from the Italian state, the
Louvre’s Leonardo
blockbuster is a go. Marking the 500th anniversary year of Leonardo’s death at
Amboise in the Loire Valley, the museum is presenting five large
paintings and 22 drawings by Leonardo in its collection (nearly a
third of his entire body of work), along with an array of
impressive international loans, including drawings from the Royal
Collection of Queen Elizabeth II.

WHERE: The Louvre, Rue de
Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France

WHEN: October 24–February
24, 2020

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