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The European Foundation for Fine Arts (TEFAF) has announced that the Neue Galerie in New York (United States) and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) (Belgium) are the beneficiaries of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF). ).
The grant is aimed at preserving artistic and cultural heritage. With funding from TEFAF, the Neue Galerie in New York will restore ‘City Among Vegetation’ (The Old Town III) (1917) by Egon Schiele (1890-1918), a work that the museum received as a gift in 2006.
“Egon Schiele completed ‘City Among the Greens’ about a year before his death, in October 1918, and it is an outstanding and unusual example of Austrian Expressionist landscape painting. All of us who work at the Neue Galerie are very grateful for receive this grant from TEFAF’s Museum Restoration Fund. The restoration of City Among the Greens ensures that the Neue Galerie will be able to safely preserve and present this extraordinary work by Schiele for many years to come,” said the director of the Neue Galerie New York, Renée Price.
For its part, according to TEFAF, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp will use TEFAF funds to restore ‘Two girls like Saints Agnes and Dorothea’ (c.1650), by Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689), a work that the gallery has owned it since 1910. Although Wautier was highly regarded during his lifetime, the painting was initially attributed to an anonymous master before being awarded to Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614-1654). It was not until 2003 when PY Kairis demonstrated, for stylistic reasons, that it was undoubtedly a work by Wautier.
“In the 17th century, Michaelina Wautier made a name for herself as an artist in a wide variety of genres. She did not limit herself to classically feminine subjects, such as still lifes or portraits. Since the early 2000s, Wautier has been making a name for herself again. It is natural that she also she figures prominently in the museum among the works of her contemporaries. This year, we restored Two Girls along with Wautier’s Portrait of a Young Man. Treating works by the same artist at the same time has previously been shown to add value to research projects and restoration”, said the general director of the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Carmen Willems.
