European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Compiled by Michele Ray Austria Vienna Prague ,i.1 f 00 Art and culture atthe court of Rudolph ii museum of Fine arts until feb. 26. France Paris Gauguin grand palais until april 24. Some 300 works by Paul Gauguin. Italy Naples Poidom a Caravaggio Between Naples and Messina Capo Ironte museum until feb. 15. Rivoli 25 works of the 60s by Jannis Kounellis Castle museum of contemporary Arl until feb. 12. Urbino masterpieces for Urbino Palazzo Bellomo until March. The Netherlands Amsterdam Young american artists exhibition steel Ink museum until feb. 26. Drawings of the Terborgh family Rijk museum until March 13. Switzerland Bern world of the collage Kuns museum Bern until feb. 12. Exhibit features the works of surrealist Max Ernst. Zurich Egon Schiele and his times Kuns thaus until feb. 19. United kingdom London Leonardo a Vinci artist and scientist Hayward gallery Southbank Center through april 16. Lawrence of Arabia National portrait gallery until March 12. Italian Art in the 20th Century Royal Academy of arts until april 9. West Germany Berlin masterpieces from the Guggenheim museum in new York National Galerie until March 19. Bielefeld Joseph buys the secret Block for a secret person in Ireland Kun Thalle until feb. 26. Bonn 40 years of the Federal Republic of Germany academic Center feb. 16. Cologne the flight of the Boomerang 40,000 years of Australia Rautenstrauh Joest museum until feb. 26. Modem artists from the Peoples Republic of China Galerie Werner Melletis until feb. 28. Dortmund in the Shadow of the Sun museum am Ostwall and an exhibit of 1,000 years of russian religious Art has been extended in Wiesbaden West Germany. Museum fur Kunst und  until feb. 26. Art of the Canadian indians and eskimos. Frankfurt German porcelains from the baroque museum fur Kuns Handwerk until feb. 12. Guido Reni and Europe Praise and posthumous Fame Shirn Art gallery until feb. 26. Hamburg from Seelen Tuch to Gol Schatz Sumatran textiles Galerie fur Kunst aus Sud Ostashen until feb. 25. Hannover egyptian Art Kestner museum until april 16. Mainz contemporary bookplates from the Peoples Republic of China Gutenberg museum until March 12. Mannheim treasures from Sao Paulo from Courbet to Picasso Sta Tische Kun Thalle until March 5. Munich Munich 1918/19 revolution through the Eye of the camera stad museum until March 12. The Art of old Australia Staat Liches museum fur Volke Kunde until april 16. Niernberg German Gol Smithing Germani Sches National museum until March 26. Stuttgart Frank Stella Staat Galerie Stuttgart until feb. 12. Wiesbaden 7,000 years of russian Art museum Wiesbaden extended until March. Calendar compiled by Michele Hay Austria alternative dutch 11-City tour ice skating Marathon Weissensee Kanten feb. 11. Third International Johnnie Walker ice Golf tournament Weissensee Kanten feb. 17-19. Italy carnival in Milan through feb. 11. Switzerland International horse race on the St. Moritz Lake St. Moritz feb. 12 and 19. 50th grand prix St. Moritz feb. 12 and 19. Carnival Parade Basel feb. 13. United kingdom Jorvik Viking festival York through feb. 25. Events Range from Viking combat to the burning of a longboat. Scottish boat caravan camping and Leisure show scottish exhibition and conference Center Glasgow Strathclyde feb. 10-12. West Germany Cut 89, International caravan and motor touring show Hamburg feb. 11-19. International film festival Berlin feb. 10-21. Eighth International dogsled races Clau Sthal Zell Erfeld har feb. 11. Snow sculpture contest Altenau har feb. 14-18. Gauguin exhibit draws crowds to grand palais by Marilyn August associated press some 300 works by Paul Gauguin the French Painter who rejected the comforts of Middle class life to pursue Art in the polynesian wild have gone on show at the grand palais in Paris. It is the first major retrospective of his work in 40 years. Gauguin which runs through april 24, is a $2 million co production involving the grand palais the Art Institute of Chicago and the Washington National gallery of Art. Those . Galleries presented slightly different versions of the show last year. The French have not had a comprehensive look at Gauguin since 1949, and they have wholeheartedly embraced his works. The show has been billed As the blockbuster Art event of the season daily drawing an estimated 6,000 visitors. Critics say the show s highlight Are 11 paintings on loan from the Hermitage museum in Leningrad and Moscow s Pushkin museum. Those works which rarely leave the soviet Union include pastorale Tahiti Ennes 1892a brightly coloured bucolic scene which Gauguin called his Best tahitian Effort. With its Flat surface exotic Flowers and sensuous women in native dress the work sums up the essence of Gauguin. The distorted perspective and bold use of color which he once called a profound mysterious language a language of the dream would later influence works by Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse and other 20th-Century masters. The show begins with Gauguin s Early work including Effet de Neige 1883a Winter Village scene reminiscent of Claude Monet s la pie. In the Early years when working As a respectable stockbroker and painting on the weekends Gauguin tried to master impressionist techniques. Later reacting against realism he would reject them altogether opting instead for mystery and exoticism. Gauguin sought a primitive naturalness where Ever he went and became dependent on it for stimulation. In 1886, he left Paris for Pont Aven in Brittany. There his Eye and Brush focused on the elaborate headpieces worn by the native women. Two years later he went to Aries in Southern France where he painted the same sunflowers and haystacks Van Gogh immortalized. Later during two different stays in the South Pacific he depicted the tribal rituals and superstitions of True  besides bringing together so Many remarkable paintings executed after 1895, when Gauguin left France never to return the Paris exhibition features two important works that were not displayed in Washington or Chicago. In the vision after the Sermon Jacob wrestling with the Angel 888gauguin experimented with pure color and reduced All forms to their outlines. In papa Moe 1893 he portrayed a native woman drinking water from a Jungle source against a Lush background of tropical Flora and Fauna. Also on show is Aita Tamari Valine Judith the Pahari 1893-94a bizarre portrait of a naked polynesian adolescent posing with an Orange Monkey. Anna the javanese As she was known was 13 years old when she became Gauguin s mistress and she accompanied him Back to France from the South Pacific after his first stay there. On a visit to Brittany the flamboyantly dressed Gauguin Anna and her Monkey were laughed at by sailors prompting the artist to pick a fight. He sustained a broken foot and was bedridden for weeks. Anna left him returned to Paris and robbed his studio of paintings and other valuables leaving him practically destitute. The show ends on an optimistic note the monumental door Frame sculpted in Redwood and taken from the hut in the Remote South Pacific Island of Marquesas where Gauguin died miserable and alone in 1903 at the age of 55. Carved with Flowers and nude native women it bears the inscription the House of pleasure and sums up Gauguin s life Credo be in love and you will be  20 stripes Magazine february 9, 1989