Supporting programme for the exhibition
Events can be booked from mid-March.
Tours with food & drink
Breakfast & Art
offers a more in-depth, special morning visit to the exhibition with an experienced colleague from our Education team. Afterwards, you will receive further insights into Whistler’s and Masuyama’s art over an international breakfast selection.
April 30 / May 6 / May 15 / May 19 / May 29 / June 3 / June 11 / June 16 / June 25 / July 3
as well as every Saturday, 10 am–12 noon
€25 (incl. breakfast)
Coffee Time & Art
offers a more in-depth, special afternoon visit to the exhibition with an experienced colleague from our Education team. Over coffee and cake, you will then receive further insights into Whistler’s and Masuyama’s art.
April 28 / May 7 / May 22 / June 5
2:30–4:30 pm
€20 (incl. drinks & cake)
After Work Art
is an evening visit to the exhibition with an experienced colleague from our Education team. Enjoy wine and finger food as you round off the evening.
May 5 / May 26 / June 23
5–7 pm
€25
4 Rooms – 4 Works – 4 Wines
is a special experience in which four works from four rooms are presented in more detail during an exhibition tour of around 45 minutes. Afterwards, a wine tasting with four delicious Ingelheim wines and four tapas will take place in the vinotheque of the Ingelheim Winzerkeller.
May 29
6–8:30 pm
€35
Public Tours
Important: The tours take place outside regular opening hours, which is why the rooms are no longer accessible on Thursdays and Saturdays after the tour. However, your ticket entitles you to visit the exhibition before the tour.
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Online registration is required.
Thursday 6:30 pm
Saturday 5 pm
Sundays and public holidays 10 am
Duration: approx. 60 min.
€5 plus €8 admission (€6 reduced)
Workshops
Have you always wanted to produce your own etching, from the preliminary drawing to the printed sheet? Then take part in one of our workshops!
“Scratched Traces”
A weekend workshop on the drypoint technique in the context of Whistler’s etchings
Scratches and lines are the essential elements of etchings. Starting from hand drawing, the aim of our workshop is to transfer a sketch or a drawn idea onto the metal plate and print the result as a hand pull.
Drypoint is the most original and immediate form of etching: it emerged in the Renaissance, was popular with the Impressionists, and is inherent in Whistler’s graphic œuvre.
Together we will explore Whistler’s prints and trace the lines between his hatchings and highlights. Your own sketches, drawings, and templates can also provide the impetus and inspiration for a first etching. The workshop will cover the basic terms of etching, handling the materials, the printing plate, and the etching needle. The resulting works will be discussed together at the end.
Good prior drawing skills and an interest in printmaking are an advantage. Please bring your own apron; your own printmaking tools may of course be used. Printing plates and etching needles, as well as paper and ink, will be provided.
Christian Weihrauch is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB).
Fri, 8 May, 2–5:30 pm + Sat, 9 May, 10 am–5 pm
+ Sun, 10 May, 10 am–1 pm
(Participants: min. 8, max. 12 people)
€250, incl. materials, excl. catering
“Scratched Traces”
A taster course on the etching technique
This one-day workshop teaches the fundamentals of etching and how to handle the materials, the printing plate, and the etching needle. After creating a small sketch, it is transferred to the metal plate and printed on paper as a hand pull. An interest in drawing and printmaking is an advantage.
Please bring your own apron; your own printmaking tools may of course be used.
Printing plates and etching needles, as well as paper and ink, will be provided.
With a member of our Education team.
Fri, 15 May / Sun, 14 June
10 am–5 pm on each date
(Participants: min. 8, max. 12 people)
€60, incl. materials, excl. catering
Special
“Day & Night of Art”
Family time & cultural experience
This year, we are turning day into the Night of Art. From 11:30 am we offer guided tours for adults; from 3 to 6 pm an varied indoor and outdoor programme starts for children, parents/grandparents, and all other visitors; and from 6 to 11 pm we will once again celebrate the Night of Art with all kinds of delights for the eyes, palate, and ears.
Fri, 12 June, 11 am–11 pm
free admission to the exhibition and all events
Curator-led tours
Curator’s Tour
Together with the curator, you will discover and explore selected exhibits by Whistler and Masuyama, learn interesting details about how the exhibition came about, and what special considerations had to be taken from the initial concept through to opening. Further questions will then be discussed over a glass of wine.
With Dr Katharina Henkel, Curator
Tue, 28 April, 4:30 pm / Tue, 12 May, 5 pm / Wed, 20 May, 4:30 pm / Tue, 2 June, 6 pm
approx. 2 hours each
€20
Art in & Lunch to go
The curator will introduce four of her favourite works by Whistler and Masuyama—briefly and to the point. To refuel, all participants will then receive a “lunch to go” with a sandwich, water, and fruit.
With Dr Katharina Henkel, Curator
Wed, 13 May / Wed, 3 June / Thu, 11 June
12:30–1 pm on each date
€12 (incl. lunch bag)
Expert tours
“James McNeill Whistler and his printmaking work”
The American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker Whistler, with his penchant for an eccentric lifestyle, always wanted to define for himself what it means to be an artist. With his paintings, etchings, and lithographs, he is regarded as a pioneer of new and innovative artistic techniques and created remarkable visions of modernity in London, Paris, and Venice. As one of the most influential artists of the 19th century, this not only earned him a prominent place, but also made him an important trailblazer for the art of the 20th century.
Dr Andreas Stolzenburg is Head of the Print Room at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and an expert on the 19th century.
Sun, 26 April, 10:30 am–12 noon
€16
“Of Cold Needles and Lithographic Limestone”
The printmaking techniques of James McNeill Whistler
For his graphic work, Whistler preferred etching and lithography. During the tour, you will not only learn more about both processes through selected examples, but also experience a live demonstration of these two printing techniques.
Dominik Gußmann is Head of the Print Workshop at the Haus der Stadtgeschichte in Offenbach am Main and a specialist in etching and lithography.
Sat, 16 May, 11 am–12:30 pm / Tue, 9 June, 5–7:30 pm
€16
Talks on Whistler
Tip! With your ticket you can visit the exhibition before the talks. From 6 pm, Room 3 will have restricted access in preparation for the talks.
“Whistler on the Bridge of Sighs”
The Venice prints of the renewer of the black art as icons of the lagoon city
Whistler’s Nocturnes paintings from Venice are world-famous, but his graphic series also created in the lagoon city are less well known. Yet these sheets rank among the masterpieces of the Etching Revival—a renaissance of the graphic arts at the end of the 19th century—and in turn inspired Alfred Stieglitz, one of the most important photographers of modernity, to create his iconic images of the city on the water.
The talk traces the defining influences on Whistler’s Venice prints as well as his impact on other artists.
Dr Stefan Trinks heads the arts section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) and is a private lecturer in art history at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Wed, 29 April, 6:30–8 pm
€16 (exhibition visit included until 6:30 pm on this day)
“Whistler’s Shadows”
Whistler is best known as a painter and etcher. As a lithographer, however, he produced works of remarkable delicacy—sensitive portraits of souls or big-city moods that seem as if accompanied by music. He creates landscapes of a day not yet awakened, sketches dancers with a whisper of a line, or gently accompanies the quiet dying of his wife in loving portraits.
Like the artists of international Impressionism—Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Signac, Eugène Carrière, or Joseph Pennell—Whistler, too, was fascinated by shadow as something intangible. As a lithographer, Whistler enters into dialogue with their works and yet remains an unmatched solitary figure.
Dr Anna Maria Pfäfflin is a curator at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin and an expert on the 19th century.
Wed, 10 June, 7–8:30 pm
€16 (exhibition visit included until 6:30 pm on this day)
Talk and a look behind the scenes
Tip! With your ticket you can visit the exhibition before the talks. From 6 pm, Room 3 will have restricted access in preparation for the talks.
“From cradle to grave, life is a transport problem”
From the daily work of an art inspector
Unnoticed by laypeople, extremely elaborate art transports are repeatedly carried out for exhibitions. To ensure that the exhibits arrive undamaged at their destination, many aspects must be considered during planning: How are fragile paintings, the Blue Mauritius, or delicate glass objects packed? And how can gigantic steel sculptures, antique terracotta figures, or the mask of Tutankhamun be transported in the best possible way? The evening offers highly fascinating behind-the-scenes insights into exhibition venues and their sometimes spectacular art transports.
Matthias Szarata is an art inspector at the Hasenkamp fine art shipping company and has been contributing his impressive expertise to the company for 60 years.
Wed, 24 June, 7–8:30 pm
€16 (exhibition visit included until 6:30 pm on this day)
