Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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Eliseus Libaerts, Parade armour
for Man and Horse made for King
Erik XiV of sweden, 1562, …
Gu eSt eXH I B ItIonS I n …
… Detail: Hercules fighting Ladon, the
guardian of the Garden of the Hesperides
SouS l’ÉGIDe De MARS . Armures des princes d’europe
16th March – 26th June, 2011, Paris, Musée de l’armée,
Hotel National des Invalides
The Rüstkammer will be contributing three major works
to this exceptional exhibition entitled “Sous l’égide de
Mars”, namely the parade armour for man and horse
made by the Antwerp goldsmith Eliseus Libaerts for King
Erik XIV of Sweden, along with another armour by Libaerts
purchased by Elector Christian II of Saxony in the early
17th century, as well as the armour known as the Savoy
Armour, which came to Dresden in 1588 as a gift from
Duke Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy. It will focus on the manufacture
of magnificent armour with figural decoration
made in workshops north of the Alps in the second half of
the 16th century. For the first time, parade arms and armour
in the Mannerist style from the princely armouries
of Dresden, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Vienna will be
brought together and compared with the engravings on
which their designs were based.
On view in Beijing: Caspar David Friedrich, Dolmen
under snow, 1807, …
Die Kunst der Aufklärung
(the Art of the enlightenment)
1st April, 2011 – 31st March, 2012, Beijing,
National Museum of China
Exhibition by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Munich
During the Enlightenment in Europe, art gained a new
significance. Technical developments and social change
accelerated the distribution of images in all public spheres.
The artist turned into a public authority, a genius and a
revolutionary. The idea that art can change people and
society became a key principle animating the age. The
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Munich will be making this fascinating era the
subject of a comprehensive exhibition in association with
the National Museum of China. To mark the opening of
this museum, which will then be the world’s largest museum,
the three German museum alliances will be presenting
a joint exhibition entitled “The Art of the Enlightenment”.
With loans including masterpieces by Friedrich,
Füssli, Gainsborough, Watteau, Piranesi and Goya, they
will be presenting the art of the Enlightenment in nine
sections extending from painting, sculpture and graphic
art to handicrafts and fashion to precious scientific instruments.