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German Romantic Art for Russian Imperial Palaces
This exhibition will bring twelve masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich from the State Hermitage Museum's collection in St. Petersburg, together with work by his German contemporaries. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was the leading artist of the German Romantic movement, notable especially for his symbolic and atmospheric treatment of landscape. Friedrich and his contemporaries are almost totally unrepresented in British public collections, however the Hermitage holdings from this great period of German art have no equal outside Germany, and even rival the best there. Fittingly this exhibition marks the 150th year of the opening of the New Hermitage in 1852, which marked the culmination of Tsar Nicholas I's reign. The richness of the Hermtage's German collection is due to the enthusiasm of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, sister of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. This exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore this remarkable patronage that makes Nicholas I one of the outstanding formative influences on the character of the Hermitage collection. As well as the main focus of Friedrich's work the exhibition will include a series of gouaches by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) commissioned for Alexandra by her brother Friedrich Wilhelm, paintings by Friedrich Johan Overbeck (1789-1869), Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839) and Leo von Klenze (1784-1864) the architect of the New Hermitage in St. Petersburg. The exhibition is generously supported by Donald and Jeanne Kahn. website design by Adaptive Technologies |
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