Exhibition | Beyond The Medici: The Haukohl Collection
Given that the exhibition has been on tour since 2018, it’s laughable that I’ve missed it for so long. The latest iteration is now on view in Phoenix under the title Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection. –CH
Beyond The Medici: The Haukohl Collection
Kuntsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, 20 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 10 February — 8 September 2019
Musèe National d’historie et d’art, Luxembourg, 16 October 2020 — 21 February 2021
Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, June — September 2021
Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, 23 September — 31 December 2023
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 24 February — 24 August 2024
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1 February — 18 May 2025
Phoenix Art Museum, 28 August 2025 — 26 July 2026
Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection presents more than 30 examples of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts drawn from the most important Florentine Baroque art collection outside of Italy, assembled over more than 40 years by Houston-based art collector and co-founder of the Medici Archive Project Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl. Featured artworks by local Florentine artists and artists living across Europe reflect Florence’s flourishing art industry, as well as the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Medici Grand Dukes on the Renaissance and Baroque movements.
The catalogue is available from Distributed Art Publishers (Artbook) . . .
Federico Berti, ed., Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-8836641284, $60.
Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Houston-based art collector and cofounder of the Medici Archive Project, has built America’s largest private collection of Florentine baroque paintings from the 17th to 18th centuries. The paintings, drawings, textiles, and sculpture illustrated in the collection document the Medici patronage and artists of the period. Particular attention is paid to the Dandini Family of painters: Cesare, Vincenzo, Pier and Ottaviano. Essays by Eike Schmidt, James Bradburn, Federico Berti, Fabio Sottili, and Francesco Scasciamacchia address a broad overview of collecting and history of the period.
New Book | Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound
The four central musicians are not from the eighteenth century, but the instruments are! From Simon & Schuster:
Kate Kennedy, Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (New York: Pegasus Books, 2024), 480 pages, ISBN: 978-1639367504, $35.
A cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents—a feat brought to life in this brilliant new book.
In this luminous narrative, Kate Kennedy, a writer and cellist herself, weaves together the story of four cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfortune. The stories are those of the forgotten Jewish cellist Pál Hermann, who is likely to have been murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania during the Holocaust; Lise Cristiani, another forgotten performer, who is considered to be the first female professional cello soloist and who embarked on an epic concert tour of Siberia in the 1850s taking with her a Stradivarius cello that can be seen to this day in a museum in Cremona in northern Italy; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz and survived spells in both that camp and in Bergen-Belsen; and Amedeo Baldovino of the Trieste piano trio, whose ‘Mara’ Stradivarius was lost in a shipwreck in the River Plate between Buenos Aires and Uruguay but later recovered from the water and repaired.
Kate Kennedy is one of the foremost critics of twentieth-century music of her generation and is frequently heard on Radio 3. She is an Associate of the English Faculty at Oxford, where she lectures on twentieth-century literature and biography. She is the author of Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, co-director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and director of the Centre for the Study of Women Composers.
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