From 24 August 2024, two exhibitions on the Albertinum and the the Kupferstich-Kabinett deal with the determine of Caspar David Friedrich.
Supply: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden · Picture: Caspar David Friedrich, “The Great Enclosure” or “The Ostra Enclosure”, 1831. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden.
Dresden was Caspar David Friedrich’s dwelling for 40 years. He took a eager curiosity within the works within the metropolis’s well-known Gemäldegalerie and contributed to modern artwork debates. That is the place he created his main works, now internationally famend as among the most vital examples of German Romanticism.
In his artworks, Friedrich juxtaposes tutorial traditions with the personal sources of inspiration he found on countryside walks by means of Dresden’s shut and extra distant environment.
The exhibition within the Albertinum (24 August 2024–5 January 2025) presents Friedrich’s work. His landscapes discover the realms of the feelings in a way in contrast to some other artist earlier than him. Seeing the complete vary of his inventive works will supply insights into the matters that preoccupied him: nature, faith and politics. Presenting them alongside work by his function fashions – the nice panorama artist Jakob Ruisdael, Salvatore Rosa and Claude Lorrain – and by his contemporaries gives a singular technique of exploring numerous aspects of Romanticism.The exhibition within the Kupferstich-Kabinett (24 August–17 November 2024) will centre upon the inventive course of behind his drawings, which show nice sensitivity accompanied by a excessive degree of precision. For Friedrich, strolling and drawing have been intently linked. His intense deal with the countryside and devotion to depicting it in his drawings stay palpable to this present day. The exhibition will present the paths he walked and encourage viewers to observe in his steps.
