2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Pietro Graf Rotari, Mary Magdalene
(detail), 1753/55, Gemäldegalerie
Alte Meister
The Large Herculaneum Woman, 40 – 60 A. D.,
Skulpturensammlung
For the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden the years
2009 and 2010 will be marked by a series of major openings.
Spectacular special exhibitions such as “Wunschbilder”
(Ideals), “Verwandelte Götter” (Transformed Gods),
“Carl Gustav Carus” and “Mit Fortuna übers Meer” (Crossing
the Sea with Fortuna) – to name but the most important
– will attract visitors during 2009. In 2010 we will be
holding a number of jubilee exhibitions celebrating “450
Years of the Dresden Art Collections” and 300 years of
Meissen porcelain. The opening of the “Fürstengalerie” and
the “Türckische Cammer” will mark the completion of
further phases in the reconstruction of the Residenzschloss
during 2009. This will be followed in 2010 by the reopening
of the Albertinum. All the presentations will demonstrate
the unique character of the Dresden collections and their
works of art and attract visitors from all over the world
once again, just a few years after the opening of the Historisches
Grünes Gewölbe.
sELECTED PROjECTs sChEDULED
FOR 2009
Wunschbilder. sehnsucht und Wirklichkeit.
malerei des 18. jahrhunderts für Dresden (ideals. yearning
and Reality. 18th-century Paintings for Dresden)
Exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Semperbau, Zwinger
15th February – 2nd June 2009
Louis de Silvestre, Anton Raphael Mengs, Bernardo Bellotto
and Anton Graff are famous names that stand for a
Page 78: Carl Gustav Carus, Balcony in Naples, c.1829/30,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Maecenas introduces Augustus
to the Liberal Arts, 1743, State Hermitage, St. Petersburg
large number of artists and artistic trends to which 18thcentury
Dresden painting owes its extraordinary rank in
European art history. In the 18th century this city was a
place that attracted artists from many countries. Whilst
some came to Dresden themselves, others painted for
Dresden in Venice or Paris. Many of these works, which are
now to be found all over the world and proclaim the
splendour of the city on the Elbe in their respective museums,
have been loaned to Dresden for this exhibition.
They include top-quality portraits, vedute, landscape and
history paintings which have not been exhibited in Dresden
for many decades, if at all. Thus, the exhibition
presents an unprecedented overview of paintings connected
with Dresden.
Verwandelte götter – Die antiken skulpturen des Prado
zu gast in Dresden (Transformed gods – Classical sculptures
from the museo del Prado on View in Dresden)
Exhibition by the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
and the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Japanisches Palais
20th May – 27th September 2009
This exhibition brings together masterpieces from two of
the world’s top-ranking museums. It features around 70
classical sculptures from the royal collections of the Museo
Nacional del Prado in Madrid and from the Skulpturensammlung
of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,
both of which are among the most important antiquities
collections outside Italy. Together they document exemplary
key works of classical sculpture – from the Greek
Classical period to Late Roman art.