2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Conductor Zubin Mehta admires the
“cherry stone” in the Neues Grünes Gewölbe
Franz Beckenbauer in the Weißsilberzimmer
of the Historisches Grünes
Gewölbe
honoured with the “Exhibition of the Year” award in 2007.
This new accolade pays tribute to the continuous excellent
work of the Director and his staff. In addition to the museum’s
painstaking research and excellent educational
work, the prudent acquisitions policy came in for explicit
praise. From 15th to 19th June 2008 the congress of the
“International Advisory Committee of Keepers of Public
Collections of Graphic Art” took place in the Kupferstich-
Kabinett. At this meeting the Dresden museum played
host to the Directors of the 50 most renowned graphic
collections in the world. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Holler, Director
of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, was elected the new President
of the “Committee”.
50 years of gallery Concerts
Compared with the 450th anniversary that the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden will be celebrating in 2010, the
fifty years of the Gallery Concerts seem rather modest. And
yet this is indeed a noteworthy anniversary. The motivation
for initiating this series of concerts on 6th December 1958
was the hope that the concerts broadcast from a city that
was still dominated by ruins and expanses of rubble would
contribute to the return of a semblance of cultural normality.
The Gallery Concerts, which were initially broadcast by
the radio station Deutschlandsender and are now aired by
Deutschlandradio Kultur and organised in assocation with
the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, began at the time of the
return of large numbers of Dresden paintings from the
Soviet Union and the rebuilding of the Sempergalerie. The
jubilee concert on 5th December 2008 featured the renowned
Sächsisches Vocalensemble conducted by Matthias
Jung.
Chamber singer Christa Ludwig in front of
the mirrored wall in the Pretiosensaal
His Serene Highness The Prince
of Monaco Albert II with
Prof. Dr. Dirk Syndram in the
Neues Grünes Gewölbe
guests in the grünes gewölbe
• The Prime Ministers of the German federal states
during the Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz in Dresden
on 22nd October 2008
• H.S.H. The Prince of Monaco Albert II
• Franz Beckenbauer
• Stephen G. Breyer, Judge at the Supreme Court of the
United States of America
• Erica Claus, embassy counsellor of the Canadian
Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany
• Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr., President of Forbes
magazine
• Prof. James J. Heckman, economist, Nobel laureate
(for economics) in 2000
• H. E. Harry Helenius, Ambassador of Finland to the
Federal Republic of Germany
• Dr. Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the German
Bundestag, and Dr. Bernard Accoyer, President of the
French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)
• Steffi Jones, President of the Organising Committee
for the Women’s Football World Cup 2011
• Stephan J. Kramer, General Secretary of the Central
Council of Jews in Germany
• Christa Ludwig, Kammersängerin (»chamber singer«)
• Marie-Luise Marjan, actor
• Zubin Mehta, conductor
• Ingrid Noll, writer
• Michael Stipe, vocalist of the band R.E.M.
• H. E. Toshiyuki Takano, Ambassador of Japan to the
Federal Republic of Germany
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