Dresdner Kupferstichkabinett: For your birthday, only the most Beautiful

copper engraving cabinets suffer under their traditional name, in the public perception, deadlines, therefore is a shadow existence; much better you would have

Dresdner Kupferstichkabinett: For your birthday, only the most Beautiful

copper engraving cabinets suffer under their traditional name, in the public perception, deadlines, therefore is a shadow existence; much better you would have called, quite simply, chambers of wonder. Because in them you can see what the art world holds together in the Innermost: all of the precursors (study sheets), and also after-effects (reproduction graphics) of what belongs to the Canon of our images of knowledge and, not least, also a good part of this Canon itself, the graphic, so everything that is not painted. About the silver pen portrait of a man from the fifteenth century, made by Jan van Eyck as a template for a thank God well-preserved paintings, his only surviving drawing at all, and at the same time, thanks to the painting is the earliest clearly zuschreibbare any artist outside of Italy. And what a great one! Only those gems, unfortunately, are extremely sensitive. The last Time that we were able to see Van Eyck's silverpoint drawing, is for a number of years.

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Now, though. If not once a month. Then you must for reasons of conservation, back in the Dark. From mid-July to you again, and it will be nine more leaves of the green forest, Mengs, Toulouse-Lautrec, Maratti, Erhard Altdorfer, Ludwig Richter, Frederick, Oehme, and Mondrian works from six centuries, which, in addition to the stupendous quality in common: they belong to the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden. The celebrates up-to-date three-hundred-year-old premises with an exhibition in the own look. The offers only about two hundred objects from half a Million in the stock, but you could spend days in. And since even the most famous – and most sensitive to be shown pieces that changes every month and the occupation of the so-called "treasure chamber", a small exhibition of Rarissimi in the great exhibition of Rara. A wall of the chamber, in the chamber of wonders.

The comfort after the Disappearance of the first guests

Who's not coming before mid-July to Dresden, is comforted on the loss of ten leaves, with Andrea del Verrocchio, Cranach, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Klimt, or Tübke. Or with Sofonisba Anguissolas alleged self-portrait, the eye-to-eye with the most famous Renaissance artist. To see for the whole duration of the exhibition Holbein's preparatory drawing for his portrait of Charles de Solier, and Menzel's enchanting boys study to his Piazza d’Erbe, both of which are masterpieces in the Dresden art collections. The copper engraving Cabinet, was understood for centuries as a Supplement and as a training Institute for budding artists. Only in the nineteenth century incipient understanding of drawing as an Autonomous work of art in today's self-consciousness of the former service facility was built.

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based in Dresden, for instance, names such as Marlene Dumas, Eberhard Havekost, Gerhard altenbourg, or Asger Jorn – local as well as international art, but on a world level. On Japanese wood Miniatures, cuts, and Indian. And in works of photography, who came here in Dresden for the first time to the Museum in honor of: in 1898, under the main head of the copper engraving Cabinet, Max for lehrs. He and nine of his colleagues since 1720, welcoming visitors from small portraits out at the beginning of the Wunderkammerwegs. And if you are reading, to whom these sheets owe – among other, Anton Graff, Friedrich Preller, Emil Orlik, Otto Dix or Stefan Moses, then one gets immediately the esteem of artists for an Institution teaches, preserves, and shows, to which their own is based Can.

300 years of Collecting in the present. In the Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden; up to 12. September. Then from the 23. October to to 31. January 2021 in The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. The catalogue of exemplary texts to 83 objects to the exhibition costs 29,50 Euro.

Date Of Update: 01 July 2020, 10:20