Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

advertisement for “Pfund’s Yoghurt”,
c. 1900, Kupferstich-Kabinett
42 of the House of Wettin in 1547 and the
measures undertaken by Elector August
to define his claim to power in the public
arena.
• Hugo Erfurth und Josef Hegenbarth. Eine
Künstlerfreundschaft (Hugo Erfurth and
Josef Hegenbarth. A friendship between
two artists)
Exhibition by the Kupferstich-Kabinett
Josef­Hegenbarth­Archiv, Calberlastraße 2
14th October, 2010 – 13th January, 2011
The Dresden Kupferstich­Kabinett holds
around 300 photographs by Hugo Erfurth,
one of the most important representatives
of portrait photography in the first
half of the 20th century. The collection includes
a group of works from the estate of
Josef Hegenbarth – testifying to a friendship
between the artist and the photographer,
who worked in Dresden until 1933.
Hegenbarth had received a total of 29
photographs from Erfurth in exchange for
some drawings and watercolours. The
exhibition presented a selection of these
photographs. Portraits of fellow artists
such as Gotthard Kuehl, Oskar Zwintscher
and Hans Thoma were included, as well as
role portraits of actresses and dance
photographs of the Wiesenthal sisters.
Eberhard Havekost, Cushion, 2010,
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Berlin/Dresden
• Kunst für die Straße – Plakate aus dem
Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen
Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Art for the
Street – Posters from the Kupferstich-
Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden)
Exhibition by the Kupferstich-Kabinett in
association with the Dresdner Volksbank
Raiffeisenbank and the KUNSTFORUM
foundation of the Berliner Volksbank
Dresden, Villa Eschebach
27th October, 2010 – 21st January, 2011
This exhibition presented, for the first
time, a comprehensive overview of poster
art held in the Kupferstich­Kabinett. The
focus was on artistically designed posters
from the period before 1914 which were
intended for advertising purposes in business
and tourism or as publicity for art
exhibitions, thus providing examples of
the different groups of works at various
stages of the collection’s development.
Kurt Furchtner, Nutcracker, c. 1900,
Museum für sächsische Volkskunst
• Ausstellung | Eberhard Havekost
(Exhibition | Eberhard Havekost)
Exhibition by the Galerie Neue Meister
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Brühlsche
Terrasse
13th November, 2010 – 6th February, 2011
At the centre of Eberhard Havekost’s artistic
activity is critical reflection concerning
our present­day world, in which we are
saturated with images. He explores the
visual perception of the objective world
and its pictorial abstraction. He scrutinises
the visual rhetoric of media images
and the typical image types which condition
our everyday consumption of images.
In his paintings, he constantly analyses
the subjective view of reality. He dispels
faith in the homogeneous appearance of
reality through divergently perceived images.
In his works, he combines methods
which he had already developed in earlier
groups of works: reflecting or matte projection
surfaces, frontal views and
changes of perspective, and analysis of
culturally standardised design.
• “Weihnachten im Jägerhof: Überraschung!”
(“Christmas in the Jägerhof: Surprise!”)
Exhibition by the Museum für Sächsische
Volkskunst
Jägerhof, Köpckestraße 1
27th November, 2010 – 30th January, 2011
Getting into the Christmas spirit by visiting
the Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst
is a popular tradition in Dresden.
The time­honoured Jägerhof with its
quaint vaulted rooms is decorated every
year with a multitude of individually designed
Christmas trees. Folk artists demonstrate
their skills. In the crafts room,
visitors can paint and try their hand at
various crafts. In 2010, after having been
closed for nearly a year for refurbishment,
the museum had some special Christmas
surprises on offer: it had been made
barrier­free and a lift installed, and the
ground floor had been completely
r evamped, with new perspectives on
traditional contents.
Three hand puppets from the
“Kaspertheater” of Christian
Heinrich Niedermeier, Museum
für sächsische Volkskunst mit
Puppentheatersammlung