Affluence aux expositions sur Caspar David Friedrich lors de l'année anniversaire
Published: Sunday, Apr 28th 2024, 15:01
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The run on Caspar David Friedrich continues unabated - and in several places in Germany at the same time. Following the success in Hamburg, tickets for the exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin are now in high demand. Long queues formed outside the building in the heart of the capital on the opening days. The Hanseatic city of Greifswald has also been dedicating a special exhibition to its most famous son since Sunday in the 250th anniversary year of the world-famous painter and German Romantic (1774-1840). Another exhibition will follow in Dresden in the fall.
The Alte Nationalgalerie was already expecting around 20,000 visitors after the first eight days on Sunday. A total of around 75,000 individual tickets have been sold in advance for the exhibition, which runs until the beginning of August. In addition to the online contingents, which are quickly booked out, the museum is holding some of the tickets for day visits to the tourist hotspot Museum Island. Many interested visitors waited patiently for access to the "Infinite Landscapes" exhibition. "We are delighted with the enormous response from the public to our Caspar David Friedrich exhibition," Ralph Gleis, Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie, told dpa in Berlin.
"Monk by the sea" and "Chalk cliffs on Rügen"
Following the success in Hamburg, where works by the most important painter of German Romanticism have attracted around 335,000 visitors in recent months, the visiting hours on Berlin's Museum Island have already been extended. In addition to the famous pair of paintings "Monk by the Sea" (1808-1810) and "Abbey in the Oak Forest" (1809-1810), well-known works such as "The Sea of Ice" (1823/24) and "Chalk Cliffs on Rügen" (1818/1819) can also be seen. In total, more than 60 paintings and 50 drawings from Germany and abroad are on display in cooperation with the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
The Berlin exhibition is part of a series of thematically independent shows to mark the anniversary year at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. The three museums have the most important collections of Friedrich's works in the world.
Extensive collection on the life of the artist in Greifswald
Since Sunday, the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald has been home to what it claims is one of the most extensive collections of paintings, drawings, prints, letters and other original documents from the artist's life. According to a spokesperson, the museum has seen a significant increase in visitors since the start of the anniversary year. The special exhibition entitled "Caspar David Friedrich. Lifelines", which runs until the beginning of August, presents visitors with 103 works, including 61 originals by Friedrich and 33 works by his contemporaries. A number of the exhibits are on loan.
Saxon Switzerland as an open-air studio
In Saxony, you can trace the famous Romantic in a slightly different way. The Caspar David Friedrich Trail in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains takes you past places that once inspired the artist. The tour, which is around 15 kilometers long, has a total of twelve stations and the panels were redesigned to mark the 250th birthday of the famous visitor. Friedrich lived in Dresden for more than four decades from 1798 until his death. He was repeatedly drawn from the royal seat to the surrounding area, and from 1799 he hiked in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. At least 19 visits are documented, during which he drew, studied nature and the landscape, said Nicole Hesse from the Saxon Switzerland Tourism Association. "He later drew from this pool when composing his paintings."
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