2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Caspar David Friedrich, Two men
contemplating the moon, 1819/20,
Galerie Neue Meister
Fifty works by major artists from the period
1800 to 1940 which determine the
character of the Dresden collection, ranging
from the Romantic period to Neue
Sachlichkeit, were selected for this exhibition
at the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
The show included works by such
artists as Lovis Corinth, Conrad Felixmüller
and Ludwig Richter, as well as Wilhelm
Leibl and Max Liebermann. The exhibition
was an expression of gratitude and appreciation
for the return of the Dresden
works of art, which had been transported
to the Soviet Union in the wake of the
Second World War and were returned during
the period 1956 – 1958. At the same
time, it was a contribution to the
strengthening of cooperation with museums
in the successor states to the Soviet
Union. For years now, this museum dialogue
has found expression in joint research
projects, loan exchanges, conferences
and exhibitions.
• Captured Emotions – Baroque Painting
in Bologna 1575 – 1725
Exhibition by the Gemäldegalerie Alte
Meister and the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles
16th December 2008 – 3rd May 2009
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
This exhibition was made possible by
twenty-seven masterpieces from the
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister supplemented
by 17 additional works from the J. Paul
Annibale Carracci, Madonna enthroned with
St. Matthew, 1588, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Getty Museum and other Californian collections.
The focus was on the discovery
of emotions by 17th-century artists. They
made a decisive contribution to the rhetoric
of painting by succeeding in capturing
the whole range of human emotions in
the gestures of their subjects. That is why
the title “Captured Emotions” was chosen
for this jointly curated exhibition, through
which the successful collaboration between
Dresden and the Getty was continued.
• Reconstructing Identity:
The Statue of a God from Dresden
Exhibition by the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles
18th December 2008 – 1st June 2009
The Getty Villa, Malibu
This exhibition by the Getty Villa in Malibu,
which belongs to the J. Paul Getty Museum,
featured a further enigmatic piece of
classical sculpture following the presentation
of the Herculaneum Women, which
were on display there until October 2008.
The male statue, which was severely damaged
in the Second World War, was pieced
together from countless fragments and
reinterpreted by a research colloquium.
Known since 1600, the sculpture was considered
to be a depiction of Alexander the
Great, Antinous or Dionysus. After the
reopening of the Skulpturensammlung in
Dresden it will once again be one of the
museum’s special attractions.
View of the exhibition “Among Gods and Men”
at the Museo Nacional del Prado
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