Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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The Fascination of Collecting:
drinking vessel in the form of a
ship, c. 1600 …
The exhibition “Neue sachlichkeit
in Dresden” will include
such works as the “Girl in a Fur
Coat” by Wilhelm Lachnit, 1926
…
Die Faszination des Sammelns. Meisterwerke der
Goldschmiedekunst aus der Sammlung Rudolf-August
oetker (the Fascination of Collecting. Masterpieces
of the goldsmith’s art from the Rudolf-August oetker
Collection)
21st September, 2011 – 22nd January, 2012,
Exhibition by the Grünes Gewölbe, Residenzschloss
For a period of four months, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden will be presenting a selection of outstanding
works of the goldsmith’s art from the collection of the
Bielefeld entrepreneur Rudolf­August Oetker, who would
have been 95 years old in September. His outstanding
collection enjoys an international reputation and provides
a broad overview of German goldsmith’s art. The approximately
70 works on view consist mainly of drinking vessels
from the Renaissance and Baroque periods created by
famous masters from Nuremberg, Augsburg, Hamburg
and Dresden, as well as unusual objects produced outside
these major centres of goldsmith’s art. The exhibition will
present a unique opportunity for a larger audience to appreciate
these treasures, which are seldom on display. A
richly illustrated catalogue published by Hirmer­Verlag
will accompany the exhibition.
One of the aims of the curators of the exhibition is to cast
light on different aspects of goldsmiths’ works in order to
view the phenomenon of “goldsmith’s art” in its artistic
and cultural­historical context. The significance of these
prestigious goblets as status symbols for the Nuremberg
patricians will be highlighted, as well as the function of
drinking vessels in the form of ships or windmills which
were an indispensable element of courtly table culture.
Hans Kellner, “Löffelholtz goblet”, c. 1594 – 1599
… and Willy Wollf’s “Love for
sale”, 1932
The exhibition will also focus not only on the diversity of
technical mechanisms but also on the inexhaustible fantasy
of goldsmiths, whose creations help to shape our idea
of a bygone culture.
neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden. Malerei der Zwanziger
Jahre von Dix bis Querner (new objectivity in
Dresden. painting in the 1920s from Dix to Querner)
1st October, 2011 – 8th January, 2012, Exhibition by the
Galerie Neue Meister in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
In the 1920s, painters depicted reality with cool distance
and razor­sharp precision. In Dresden, the art style known
as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) took on a specific
character of its own: biting irony was combined with an
elegance reminiscent of the Old Masters. The fastidious
training in drawing provided at the Dresden Art Academies
moulded a whole generation of artists. Otto Dix, Otto
Griebel, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Bernhard Kretzschmar,
Wilhelm Lachnit, Kurt Querner, Willy Wolff and many others
still shape our image of the Weimar Republic through their
portraits of working women, street children, war invalids
and prostitutes in the Saxon capital. As a result of a research
project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, works by
more than 80 artists are being brought back together for
the first time in the city where they were produced. The
starting point is the rich collection of the Galerie Neue
Meister, with numerous museums and private collectors
providing additional works by well­known and newly discovered
artists for the exhibition in the Lipsiusbau.
The exhibition is to be sponsored by the Sparkassen­
Finanzgruppe.