GROUP NAME: University of Central Oklahoma
OK 03/283A
TOUR TITLE: The German Expressionists

(Amsterdam to Munich)
TOUR DATES: Sun 11 - Thu 22, May 2003TOUR AIRPORT: Oklahoma City, OK

 
ITINERARY OUTLINEDAY 1 DEPARTURE FROM OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
DAY 2 ARRIVE AMSTERDAM (1 NIGHT)
DAY 3 AMSTERDAM - ESSEN - DORTMUND - DUSSELDORF (2 NIGHTS)
DAY 4 HALF DAY TRIP TO AACHEN - DUSSELDORF
DAY 5 DUSSELDORF - KOLN - BONN - FRANKFURT (2 NIGHTS)
DAY 6 HALF DAY TRIP TO MANNHEIM - FRANKFURT
DAY 7 FRANKFURT - STUTTGART (1 NIGHT)
DAY 8 STUTTGART - ULM - MUNICH AREA (4 NIGHTS)
DAY 9 MUNICH
DAY 10 MUNICH
DAY 11 DAY TRIP TO MURNAU & KOCHEL AM SEE
DAY 12 DEPARTURE FROM MUNICH

 
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
(ADMISSION COSTS INCLUDED)
AMSTERDAM: Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum
ESSEN: Museum Folkwang

DORTMUND: Museum am Ostwall

AACHEN: Cathedral, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst
DUSSELDORF: Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf
KOLN: Koln Cathedral (South Tower Ascent), Kathe Kollwitz Museum
BONN: Kunstmuseum Bonn

MANNHEIM: Stadtische Kunsthalle
FRANKFURT: Stadel Gallery, Museum Der Weltkulturen (Gallery 37)
STUTTGART: Staatsgalerie, Linden Museum
ULM: Munster, Walking Tour, Fisher’s Quarter, Ulmer Museum
MUNICH: Hofbrauhaus Show, Alte Pinakotek, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst,
Marienplatz, Neues Rathaus (Glockenspiel and Tower Ascent),
Nymphenburg Palace, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus,
Frauenkirche
KOCHEL: Franz Marc Museum

MURNAU: Castle Museum
"THE GERMAN EXPRESSIONISTS" 
DAY 1 DEPARTURE FROM OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Enjoy full meal service on your scheduled wide-bodied flight to Amsterdam.

DAY 2 ARRIVE AMSTERDAM (1 NIGHT)
Our guide will meet us at the airport and we will transfer to our hotel in Amsterdam. We will begin our sightseeing today with a tour of the Van Gogh Museum, with a marvelous collection of work by Vincent Van Gogh, of the world’s finest artists. Van Gogh, along with Edvard Munch, had a profound effect on the artists known as the German Expressionists. The museum houses a collection of paintings and drawings, including The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom at Arles. We will continue with a visit to the Rijksmuseum, one of Europe’s finest art galleries in Europe, offering an unrivalled collection of Dutch art. We will have time to explore the galleries, which include works by such masters as van Leyden, Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer.

DAY 3 AMSTERDAM - ESSEN - DORTMUND - DUSSELDORF (2 NIGHTS)
We will make an early morning start as we leave Holland and journey into western Germany. Our first stop today will be in Essen, the capital of the Ruhr region. We will visit the Museum Folkwang, which houses a major collection of 19th and 20th century painting, sculpture and photography. The collection includes works by Courbet, Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Heckel, Kirchner, Nolde, Perchstein, Kandinsky, Marc, Klee, Pollock and Rodin. We will continue on to Dortmund, an old Hanseatic town and the beer center of the Ruhr. We will visit the Museum am Ostwall, featuring works by the greatest exponents of German Expressionism, including Becker-Modersohn, Macke, Nolde, Muller, Barlach, Kolbe and Kollwitz. We will continue to Dusseldorf, our base for the next few evenings.

DAY 4 HALF DAY TRIP TO AACHEN - DUSSELDORF
This morning we will journey to the German city of Aachen, forever associated with Charlemagne. We will begin with a visit to Aachen Cathedral, which was begun by Charlemagne in AD 800. Our guided tour will include Charlemagne’s Throne, the choir, the Hungarian chapel and the Treasury, the most valuable and celebrated ecclesiastical treasure north of the Alps. We will continue with a visit to the Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, a former umbrella factory now housing a remarkable collection of modern art. The building itself is a splendid example of Bauhaus style and the collection includes works by Paik, Antes, Lichtenstein, Borowsky, and Immendorf. We will return to Dusseldorf, where we will visit the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, one of the largest and most comprehensive museums in the Rhineland. The painting collection includes works from the Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter schools.

DAY 5 DUSSELDORF - KOLN - BONN - FRANKFURT (2 NIGHTS)
This morning we will journey south to Koln, one of Germany’s most beautiful cities. We will begin with a visit to Koln Cathedral, the spiritual and geographic heart of the city. Our tour of this magnificent cathedral will include an ascent of the South Tower, where we will have a splendid panoramic view of the city, as well as the Shrine of the Three Magi, the most important and valuable object in the cathedral. We will conclude our day with a visit to the Kathe Kollwitz Museum, which houses an impressive collection of the 20th century artists works. We will continue to the capital of Western Germany before reunification, Bonn. We will begin visit the Kunstmuseum Bonn, a triangular building flooded with light, which contains one of the most important art collections along the Rhine. The highlight of the museum is the collection of 20th century art, including works by Rhenish expressionists, most notably the painter August Macke, but also including works by Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst and Seehaus. We will continue to Frankfurt for the evening.

 
 
 
DAY 6 HALF DAY TRIP TO MANNHEIM - FRANKFURT
This morning we will make an early start and travel to Mannheim, the second largest river port in Europe located at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar Rivers. Upon our arrival, we will visit the Stadtische Kunsthalle, a museum concentrating on the works of the 19th and 20th century. Painting and sculpture are equally represented, including works by Rodin, Brancusi, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Beckmann, Heckel, and Ensor. We will return to Frankfurt, where we will take a tour of the Stadel Gallery, containing a fine collection from most European schools of painting, including works by Durer, van Eyck, Renoir, Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Beckmann and Kirchner. Our day will conclude with a visit to the Museum Der Weltkulturen, a museum dedicated to the many unique cultures found throughout the world. We will have the opportunity to vist both the Museum, focusing on culture and Gallery 37, which focuses on modern art from around the world.

DAY 7 FRANKFURT - STUTTGART (1 NIGHT)
We will continue south this morning, making our way to Stuttgart, a cultural center in Germany and home to the world famous car manufactures Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. We will begin our afternoon with a visit to the Staatsgalerie, one of the finest collections of German Expressionist works in Germany, including works by Kirchner, Barlach, Beckmann, Klee, and Feininger. We will conclude our afternoon with a visit to the Linden Museum, dedicated to fine arts and folk arts worldwide. The collection displays items from the Americas, the Pacific, the Middel East, the Far East and Southern Asia.

DAY 8 STUTTGART - ULM - MUNICH AREA (4 NIGHTS)
This morning we will continue our journey east to the city of Ulm, We will begin our morning with a Walking Tour beginning in the Fisher’s Quarter, with its little medieval houses and tree-shaded squares, and continuing past the Renaissance Rathaus dating from 1419, before stopping for a visit to the Ulmer Museum. The museum contains local works dating from the 13th century to present, including an interesting collection of 20th century art, including works by Picasso, Klee, Stella and Rothko. This afternoon, we will visit Ulm Munster, a German Gothic masterpiece featuring the tallest cathedral steeple in the world. Our tour of the mighty cathedral will include an ascent of the spire for a magnificent panoramic view of the town, the Danube, the plateau of the Swabian Jura and the Alps. We will continue on to the Capital of Bavaria, Munich. After dinner, we will attend a show at the world famous Hofbrauhaus.

DAY 9 MUNICH
This morning we will begin with a visit to the Alte Pinakotek, one of the world’s great art museums with a large and important collection that represents the greatest European artists from the 14th through the 18th centuries, including Raphael, Tintorretto, Durer, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Monet and Van Gogh. We will also visit the Frauenkirche (Cathedral of Our Lady), a church destroyed in the bombings of 1945. Completely restored, this simple Gothic style church is still one of the city’s finest landmarks. We will conclude our afternoon in the Marienplatz in the heart of the Old City. We will ascend the tower of the Neues Rathaus for a beautiful view over the city. The famous square also features the Altes Rathaus, dating from the 15th century and the marvelous Glockenspiel on the façade of the Neues Rathaus, which performs a miniature tournament, with enameled copper figures moving in and out of the archways.

DAY 10 MUNICH
This morning we will visit Nymphenburg Palace on the outskirts of Munich. This splendid palace, complete with lakes and hunting lodges, was once the residence of the Bavarian kings. The rococo Banqueting Hall contains vivid frescoes based on mythological themes, and the ‘Gallery of Beauties’ displays portraits of the loveliest women of the time of Ludwig I. There will be time to see the elegant coaches in the carriage museum and to stroll in the formal gardens before returning to Munich. We will continue with a tour of the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich’s State Gallery of Modern Art, housed in the west wing of the Haus der Kunst. The museum contains a comprehensive collection of 20th century art and sculpture, with the largest portion dedicated to German art including the Expressionist school. We will view important works by Klee, Kirchner, Marc, Schmidt Rottluff and Beckmann, as well as Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, and Dali.

 
Our final visit today will be the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, a museum, containing the works of Munich painters of the 19th century and the avant-garde Blauer Reiter Collection. This movement, born in the tumultuous period just after WWI is represented by its founder members, Kandinsky, Marc, and Kubin, as well as works by Klee, Jawiensky, and Macke.

DAY 11 DAY TRIP TO MURNAU & KOCHEL AM SEE
Today we will make an excursion to Murnau to visit the Castle Museum which house works by various 19th and 20th century artists. We will conclude our afternoon at the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See. Here we will view works by Franz Marc and his colleagues from the "Blue Rider" group, like Kandinsky, Muenter, Macke and Klee.

DAY 12 DEPARTURE FROM MUNICH
Your enjoyable and rewarding tour will come to an end as your guide accompanies you to the airport for the return flight home. 
 
COSTS AND REF#:
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
OK 03/283A
SUBJECT TO AIRFARE CONFIRMATION
*TOTAL COSTS:
40-59 PAYING:
$2,589


30-39 PAYING:
$2,664


20-29 PAYING:
$2,742


16-19 PAYING:
$2,861


12-15 PAYING:
$2,988


10-11 PAYING:
$3,079


(A) Airport taxes are included and there are no registration fees, optional excursions or adult supplements for your group.
(B) Once full payment has been acknowledged we guarantee there can be no price increase for any reason whatsoever.
WHAT IS INCLUDED:
* Round trip airfare with a major carrier on guaranteed dates and airport taxes * Accommodation in 3 star and Superior 2 star Tourist Class Hotels with private facilities in twin and some triple rooms
* Continental breakfast and dinner throughout* All transportation by private coach and capital city pass for group sightseeing on public transportation
* All excursions and admissions as per your itinerary* The exclusive services of a full-time Tour Manager/Guide who will accompany your group 24 hours a day
* The expertise and perspective of Local Guides for
5
specialist guided tours* All taxes
THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE:
* Lunches or beverages with meals* Visas (if required)
* Travel insurance - Each passenger must be covered by Health Insurance while abroad on a Casterbridge Tour. Casterbridge
offers a comprehensive Travel Insurance Policy which includes full Health, Cancellation and Property coverage costing $6 per
day for 18 years or below, $8 for group members aged 19 - 60 and $12 per day for any individuals aged 61 -75 (insurance
coverage is gratis for all free group leaders and does not cover anyone over the age of 75)
* European currency rate guaranteed to 1EURO = $
1.100