Italian Landscape of the Romantic Era

Italian Landscape
of the Romantic Era
Pa i n t i n g a n d L i t e r at u r e
11 May – 21 August 2016
Bad Muskau · Neues Schloss
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna, Capri and the Bay of Naples,
­majestic silhouettes of lofty mountains, glittering expanses of sea,
dignified ancient architecture and Mediterranean flora: “il bel paese”
– the “beautiful country” as seen by writers and artists, is at the
focus of this special exhibition.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries travellers to Italy increasingly
focused on the perception of nature. Their encounters with southern
climes promised a substantial impetus for artistic development and
regeneration. Hence, the Italian landscape became a new ideal for
landscape gardens which spread more or less simultaneously from
England over the whole continent of Europe. One of the most important protagonists of this movement in Germany was Prince
­Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, whose park and castle in Bad Muskau
are an ideal venue for this exhibition.
His landscape park, which was begun in 1815, is now one of the most
beautiful in Europe and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site
since 2004. Indeed, the park itself was originally conceived as a kind
“These colours, this fragrance and distant
haze give the Italian landscape a strong
sense of ideality: weighty earthly things
in the distance ever dissolve in the fragrant
tinge that wafts lightly like a thought.”
Viktor Hehn (1813 – 1890)
Images from a journey through Italy and France
1839/40
Johann Carl Baehr (1801 – 1869)
View of the Aurelian Wall and the Baths of Caracalla
1834/35
Oil on cardboard, 26 × 39 cm
Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,
Gal. No. 2698 (detail)
Photo: Estel/Klut
adolf senff (1785 – 1863)
Portrait of an Italian Woman
1818
Oil on canvas · 93 × 71 cm
Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gal. No. 3171
Photo: Estel/Klut
w Carl Robert Kummer (1810 – 1889)
Indian Fig Cacti on Capri
1833
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard · 57 × 42 cm
Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,
Gal. No. 2246 A
Photo: Estel/Klut
Carl Rottmann (1797 – 1850) The Strait of Messina
1828
Oil on canvas · 62 × 103 cm
On loan to the Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Photo: Estel/Klut
of museum: “A park must be like an art gallery, every few steps you
should see a new picture.” (Pückler-muskau )
The special exhibition in the New Castle (Neues Schloss) features
more than 20 masterpieces – landscapes full of light by painters
such as Jakob Philipp Hackert, Ludwig Richter, Ernst Ferdinand
Oehme, Carl Rottmann and Carl Blechen. All these paintings reflect
the poetry of nature, the rich colours and forms found in the south.
Most of them are usually housed in the Dresden Albertinum and
are among the highlights of the Galerie Neue Meister; thanks to
the restoration of several paintings from the store room, their original radiance has been revitalised.
Selected writings by contemporary authors who also travelled
around Italy – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried
Seume, Madame de Staël and Wilhelm Waiblinger – enable the
Italian landscape to be experienced in a combination of genres.
An important starting point for such painted and written projections of this land of longing, Goethe’s “Italian Journey” was first
published in instalments in 1816, and so the year 2016 marks the
200th anniversary of its publication. It initiated a period of German fascination for the “land where the lemon trees bloom”
(Goethe ), a fascination which – with few exceptions and several
interruptions – extended into broad social circles and whose effect
is still felt today.
“The whole sky was covered with a whitish
haze of cloud, through which the sun,
without its form being distinguishable,
gleamed over the sea, which displayed the
most beautiful sky blue hue that one ever
could see.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
(On the way back from Sicily, 13 May 1787)
Italian Journey · 1816/17
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Saturday | 28 May 2016 | 5 pm
Liaison office of the Free State of Saxony | Wrocław (Poland)
(Events in German language)
From Bad Muskau with Love
Whit Sunday | 15 May 2016 | 1 – 6 pm
Schlossgarten and Neues Schloss
“Eichendorff and the Italian Landscape of the Romantic Era”
Music and reading in Polish by the actress Marta Klubowicz
Literature festival
With music performed by the Jacobus-Stainer-Quartett
(Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden)
Presenter: Friedrich Dieckmann (writer, Berlin)
1.30 pm, Reading by the author Klaus Müller (Rostock)
“Gehen um zu bleiben. Aus der DDR nach Italien – und zurück”
(Walking to stay. Out of the GDR to Italy – and back)
3 pm, Albrecht Goette (Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
reads excerpts from Goethe’s “Italian Journey” in the exhibition
4.30 pm, Reading by the writer Ingo Schulze (Berlin)
“Orangen und Engel. Italienische Skizzen”
(Oranges and Angels. Italian Sketches)
Family programme: 1.30 and 4.30 pm | Meeting point: Schlossplatz
A short tour of the exhibition serves as inspiration for
considering how landscape can be reflected in paintings or texts.
Afterwards, in the park, the participants create
their own view of a landscape in either words or pictures.
Bus transfer from Dresden to Bad Muskau
(Departure: 10 am, Return: 6.15 pm)*
Saturday | 4 June 2016 | 11 am
Guided tour through the exhibition
(with a sign language interpreter)
Saturday | 11 June 2016 | 4.30 – 6 pm | Neues Schloss | Festsaal
Painting in Focus: Lecture series I
4.30 pm, “Painting and literature: The Italian Landscape
in the competition between the arts?”, Andreas Dehmer
(SKD, Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister)
5 pm, “Italian landscapes in a new light. Restored treasures from
the Dresden Albertinum”, Marlies Giebe (SKD, Restoration workshop
of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Galerie Neue Meister)
5.30 pm, “Saxony in Rome. Artists’ lives at the Caffè Greco”,
Claudia Maria Müller (SKD, Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister)
Beforehand: 4 – 4.30 pm short guided tour through the exhibition
Bus transfer from Dresden to Bad Muskau
(Departure: 12 noon, Return: 6.15 pm)*
Sunday | 19 June 2016 | 11 am
Saturday | 28 May 2016 | 11 am
Guided tour through the exhibition
Guided tour through the exhibition
Saturday | 25 June 2016 | 4.30 – 6 pm | Neues Schloss | Festsaal
Saturday | 28 May 2016 | 4 pm | Orangerie
To Wrocław with Love
A bridge to the European Capital of Culture
 part of the German-Polish Park Festival
Under the heading “Eichendorff and Italy” Tom Quaas (Staatsschauspiel Dresden) reads poems and passages from Joseph von Eichendorff’s novellas “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” (Memoirs of
a Good-for-Nothing) and “Das Marmorbild” (The Marble Statue)
Beforehand: 3 – 3.30 pm short guided tour through the exhibition
Family programme: from 4 pm, Meeting point: Orangerie
A short tour of the exhibition serves as inspiration for considering
how landscape can be reflected in paintings or texts.
Afterwards, in the park, the participants create their own view
of a landscape in either words or pictures.
Bus transfer from Dresden to Bad Muskau
(Departure: 12 noon, Return: 6.15 pm)*
Painting in Focus: Lecture series II
4.30 Uhr, “German-Roman views from an Italian journey.
The landscape book of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld”,
Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick (SKD, Kupferstich-Kabinett)
5 pm, “Roman acquaintances. German artists in the Eternal City”,
Christine Follmann (SKD, Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister)
5.30 pm, “Landscape à la Lorrain. Pückler in Italy. Italy in Muskau”,
Stephan Dahme (SKD, Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister)
Beforehand: 4 – 4.30 pm short guided tour through the exhibition
Bus transfer from Dresden to Bad Muskau
(Departure: 12 noon, Return: 6.15 pm)*
Guided tour through the exhibition
Sunday | 3 July 2016 | 1.30 and 2.30 pm | Neues Schloss |
Special exhibition rooms
Lyrical landscapes
 part of the event “Open Air and Picnic”
Live poetry readings with works by Goethe, Tieck, Grillparzer and
Waiblinger relating to the Italian landscape
Recitation: André Kaczmarczyk (Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
Beforehand: 1 – 1.30 pm short guided tour through the exhibition
Bus transfer from Dresden to Bad Muskau
(Departure: 10 am, Return: 6.15 pm)*
Sunday | 21 August 2016 | 4 pm | Neues Schloss | Special exhibition rooms
Taking stock: Yearning for Italy in painting and
literature
Discussion with Andreas Dehmer, Heike Biedermann, Stephan Dahme
(SKD, Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister)
Monday | 11 July | Monday | 18 July 2016 | 10 am
School holiday programme “Conquering views!”
A short tour through the exhibition serves as inspiration for
­“conquering” your own view in the park. You create this by painting
at specific viewpoints and visual axes in the landscape.
Register at the Muskauer Park Tourist Centre | Neues Schloss:
[email protected] or Tel. +49 (0) 357 71 / 631 00
In a special photographic competition entitled “Ansichten erobern!”
(Conquering views), we invite visitors to capture their own perspectives
and landscape views of Bad Muskau on camera and to send them to
[email protected] or share them under #MeineLandschaft.
Suitable templates and further information can be found in the exhibition.
* For the events on 15 and 28 May, on 11 and 25 June and on 3 July 2016
a bus transfer service (max. 48 pers.) from Dresden to Bad Muskau
and back is on offer. Meeting point in Dresden: Tzschirnerplatz 2
Costs: adults € 10, children up to the age of 16 € 5 | Register at:
[email protected] or Tel. +49 (0) 351 / 49 14 20 00,
any ­remaining tickets will be available on the bus.
Italian Landscape of the Romantic Era
PAINTING AND L ITERATURE
An exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
in cooperation with the “Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau” foundation
Bad Muskau | Neues Schloss | 11 May – 21 August 2016
OPENING HOURS
Daily 10 am – 6 pm
Admission
€ 4 per person
€ 2 concessions (school pupils, students, apprentices, disabled persons)
€ 3.50 for groups (15 or more persons)
€ 1.75 for groups at the concession rate
(school classes, teachers / escorts of school classes free of charge)
€ 8 Family ticket (2 adults + children)
Holders of an SKD annual ticket as well as members of Societies of Friends
of the SKD will be granted an admission ticket at a reduced rate (€ 2)
when purchasing a combination ticket (Castle tower and special exhibitions) in the New Castle (Neues Schloss) in Bad Muskau.
Address | Contact
“Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau” Foundation
Tourist Centre
Muskauer Park | Neues Schloss
02953 Bad Muskau
Telefon: + 49 (0) 357 71 / 631 00
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.muskauer-park.de
Information
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Telefon: +49 (0) 351 / 49 14 20 00
Fax +49 (0) 351 / 49 14 20 01
[email protected]
www.skd.museum
Cover: Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797 – 1855) · Villa d’Este in Tivoli, 1833 · Oil on canvas · 57 × 85.5 cm
© Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden · Gal. No. 2219 G (detail)
Photo: Hoffmann
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As at: April 2016, subject to alterations | design: www.sandstein.de
Sunday | 3 July 2016 | 11 am