Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

… and a pair of shoes belonging to the
philosopher immanuel Kant
Die Macht des Schenkens – Gaben am sächsischen
Herrscherhof in Dresden und im Großen Haus der
Kwakwaka’wakw (the power of Giving – Gifts at the
Saxon Court in Dresden and in the Big House of the
Kwakwaka’wakw)
22nd April – 28th August, 2011, Alert Bay, U’mista
Cultural Centre, Cormorant Island, British Columbia
Cooperative exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and the U’mista Cultural Centre
of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation in Canada
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the
U’mista Cultural Centre will be exchanging objects from
their holdings relating to the culture of gift­giving. Dresden
will be assembling a selection of representative diplomatic
and personal princely gifts and display objects
from the Saxon court in Dresden to go on show at the
U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay. They include work
tools from the Kunstkammer, parade weapons and tournament
armour from the Rüstkammer as well as vessels
and figures from the Grünes Gewölbe and the Porzellansammlung.
These objects demonstrate the interest in business, the
desire for chivalric and allegorical display, the magnificent
courtly entertainments and passion for hunting of the
Saxon rulers in the Early Modern period. The exhibits will
attract admiration not only on account of their value and
originality, but also because in coming from Dresden they
bear witness to important European rulers, aristocratic
families, court administrators and artists.
Hans anthoni Linds “Nautilus ship on wheels”,
1603 – 1609, on display in Qatar
Bartolomaio Cividale (blade), detail of
the rapier, 1610, on view in alert Bay
Das Grüne Gewölbe zu Gast im Museum of
Islamic Art in Doha (Katar)
(the Grünes Gewölbe exhibition at the Museum
of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar)
20th October, 2011 – February, 2012, Doha,
Museum of Islamic Art
In this museum, designed by the internationally renowned
architect I. M. Pei and opened in 2008, outstanding examples
of Saxon treasury art dating from the 16th to the 18th
century held in the Grünes Gewölbe are to go on show.
Needle­sharp photographic reproductions of the walls of
the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe will convey an authentic
impression of the original arrangement of the works of
art. Thanks to a special technical process developed by the
Dresden architectural photographer Prof. Jörg Schöner
specially for the Grünes Gewölbe, these large scale reproductions
will combine with the precious objects in the
exhibition to create a fascinating ensemble.
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