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Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the
desire to explore beyond the confines of one’s home has provoked
a truly astonishing outpouring of creativity, much of which was
captured through drawings and prints. Comprising over 100 such
works, Connecting Worlds: Artists& Travel will be the first
exhibition to approach the subject through the lens of artists’
experiences of travel from the Renaissance to the nineteenth
century, before the establishment of the railroad and use of
photography as a means of recording changed these experiences
deeply. A collaboration between the Kupferstich-Kabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Katrin Bellinger
Collection, London, the exhibition will include works by major
artists, lesser known professionals as well as amateurs, mostly
from Northern Europe, amongst them Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein
the Younger, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Wenceslaus Hollar, Zacharias
Wagner, Valentin Klotz, Maria Sibylla Merian, Angelika Kauffmann,
Franz Pforr, Augusta von Buttlar, Julie von Egloffstein, Ludwig
Richter, and Friedrich Preller the Elder. Divided into three
sections, “On the road”, “Destination Rome”, and
“Dresden”, the exhibition begins by exploring artists on the
road and what they regarded as important to record in sketchbooks
and individual sheets. The second section looks at Rome as one of
the most important destinations for Northern travellers, with its
incomparable remains of antiquity and as the seat of the Catholic
Church that celebrated its religious and administrative life
through processions and public spectacle. The journey ends in
Dresden, as a centre for collecting, cultural exchange and
glamorous festivities, ambitiously competing with other
international courts since the time of Augustus the Strong. A
different kind of travel, made possible by collecting images and
stories of landscapes, flora, fauna, and cultures previously
unknown in Europe, is explored. This section closes with the story
of the Indonesian Romantic artist Raden Saleh, who first visited
Dresden in 1839, and was warmly welcomed by the Saxon court. The
richly illustrated catalogue will feature essays by an
international panel of experts addressing such topics as the uses
of artist sketchbooks across time, written and visual accounts of
travel in books and prints, encounters with the Ottoman world,
travel and collecting at the Saxon court.
This groundbreaking reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and
Old Women' album will offer rich insights into the artist's
concerns and preoccupations and will immeasurably deepen our
understanding of the artist. With its themes of witchcraft, madness
and nightmares, the predominant imagery of the album offers a
particularly important perspective on the development of Goya's
interest in old age and its relationship to the fantastic and
diabolical.
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