2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

PARTNERs FROm ThE bUsiNEss WORLD
The consummate craftsmanship of Saxon watchmakers:
the hand-engraved balance cock
AmbAssADORs FOR DREsDEN
As A CiTy OF ART AND CULTURE
A. Lange & Söhne have been official sponsors of the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006. With
impressive museum openings and outstandingly curated
exhibitions, the art collections again and again stimulate
interest and draw worldwide public attention to Saxony’s
wonderful cultural heritage. Our involvement is born of
our enthusiasm for top-quality artistic and cultural
achievements and our appreciation of their significance
for society. Top-level art projects and musical creativity are
therefore at the focus of our activities aimed at the promotion
of culture. In keeping with our company’s self-image,
we provide funds both to support efforts aimed at the
preservation of cultural traditions and to promote new,
innovative projects. All our endeavours are based on the
conviction that technical craftsmanship and artistic processes
emanate from the same source: creativity.
In 2008 the ambassadorial role of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden came to the fore in the process of
dialogue with China. This is an exciting sphere of activity
for the A. Lange & Söhne trademark, which has its roots in
Dresden and regards itself as an ambassador on behalf of
cultural tradition. In the year in which we entered onto the
Chinese market, the building of bridges between China
and Germany was an important motive for our support of
the two major exhibition projects at the National Art
Museum of China in Beijing, which opened new perspec-
Prof. Dr. Martin Roth and Fabian Krone, Lange CEO, at the opening
of the exhibition at the National Art Museum of China
tives on German art and contributed towards the presentation
of Dresden both as a city steeped in tradition and
as a centre of contemporary art and artists.
With ambitious projects such as the reopening of the
Galerie Neue Meister, the Türckische Cammer and the
restoration of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden will be able to develop
their ambassadorial function on behalf of Saxony
even further and reinforce Dresden’s image as a top-ranking
cultural centre. We look forward to being able to continue
making an active contribution to this important and
worthwhile work.
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