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WIRD WELT DER FRAU SCHÖNSTE DIE 09.03.12 11:34 Staatliche KunStSammlungen Dresden · Jah reSbericht 2011 2011 Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Semper Building at the Zwinger Schloss Pillnitz, Bergpalais Page 5 Page 18 sPEcIAL EXHIBITIONs Foreword Back on public display at last: The “Canaletto View” Page 29 Page 19 Exhibitions in Dresden, Saxony and I N FOcUs The Dream of a King. throughout Germany Dresden’s Green Vault Page 42 Page 7 Exhibitions abroad The Art of the Enlightenment Page 10 A cHANGI NG The Power of Giving INsTITUTION FROM TH E Page 12 cOLLEcTIONs On the departure of The Third Saxon State Exhibition: Prof. Dr. Martin Roth via regia – 800 Years of Mobility Page 45 and Movement Page 21 Selected purchases and donations Motivated by cultural convictions Page 14 Page 50 Heavenly Splendour: Page 23 Selected publications Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald Ten years at the Staatliche Page 53 paint the Madonna Kunstsammlungen Dresden Selected restoration projects Page 16 On the departure of Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden. Dr. Moritz Woelk 1920s paintings from Dix to Querner Page 26 From Benedetto Antelami to Tony Cragg – Moritz Woelk in Dresden’s Albertinum Japanisches Palais Albertinum GRASSI Museum Leipzig SCIENTIFIc AN D VIsITORs NEWs I N BRI EF REsEARcH PROJ EcTs Page 77 Page 89 Page 59 The Future of Museums – youth Scientific projects and congresses held by the Staatliche collaborations Kunstsammlungen Dresden MUsEUM BUILDINGs Page 62 Page 78 Page 93 Provenance, research and Digital communication at the Art treasures – well protected! restitutions SKD – to be continued Page 80 Inviting and welcoming visitors – PROsPEcTs WITH KI N D sUPPORT the Marketing and Visitor Services departments Page 99 Page 67 Page 82 Special exhibitions in 2012 Societies of friends Exploring, discovering and Page 72 creating – Museum Education Sponsors and promoters APPENDIX Page 84 On a wave of success – visitor numbers Page 102 Institutions Page 104 EcONOMIc DATA Publication details Page 86 4 preserving and making accessible the treasures entrusted to them, but also by specifically imparting knowledge about them – for example through the project “Lernort Albertinum” (Learning in the Albertinum). Furthermore, the museums of the Staatliche Kunst- sammlungen Dresden have also become places of social debate, cultural exchange and encounters between very different artistic genres, providing important impulses for the future development of our cultural self-image. This development was greatly influenced by Prof. Dr. Martin Roth, who, during his term as Director-General from 2001 until 2011, developed successful strategies for the reorganisation of many aspects of the Staatliche Kunst- sammlungen Dresden in readiness for facing future chal- lenges. Many decisive events occurred during his term of office, such as the rescue of the art treasures from the disastrous flood of 2002, the internationally acclaimed opening of the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe in 2006, the merger with the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen and the reopening of the Albertinum during the anniversary year 2010. These were crucial years in which FOREWORD many major decisions were made and in which Martin 5 Roth turned the museums of the Staatliche Kunst- sammlungen Dresden not only into a widely known visitor For the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden the year 2011 attraction but also into a springboard for activities all over was characterised by a range of major exhibitions which the world, making Dresden an important location on the impressively reflected the diversity of the works of art in global map of cultural treasures. the collections and the themes with which they are However, the year 2011 not only saw the departure of the closely associated. They told stories about the cultures of Director-General, who has taken over as Director of the the north-west coast of Canada and about life along the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; shortly before the medieval via regia, they showed the heavenly splendour end of the year the name of the new Director-General was of the Vatican museums as well as the Neue Sachlichkeit announced. With the appointment of Dr. Hartwig Fischer art movement in 1920s Dresden. The exhibition that re- to this position, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ceived the most international attention was undoubtedly are now at the beginning of a new phase in their history, “Die Kunst der Aufklärung” (The Art of the Enlightenment), a phase which everybody is looking forward to with con- which was planned in association with the Staatliche fidence. Museen zu Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsgemälde- I should like to take this opportunity to thank Martin Roth sammlungen Munich and was opened in April 2011 at the and all the staff of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen National Museum of China in Beijing. Like no other project Dresden for the excellent work done over the past decade before it, this exhibition stimulated public debate about and to wish Hartwig Fischer every success for the start of the role of culture and museums in international relations. his term of office in Dresden! Despite the very different views expressed in the course of I hope everyone who wishes to recall the events of 2011, a this debate, it demonstrated the role of museums as fascinating year in the sphere of the arts, will enjoy reading beacons which have a defining influence on the art and this report. culture of a whole country. Over the past few years, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden have matured into Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine von Schorlemer just such an institution. They not only provide identifica- Saxon State Minister for Science and the Arts tion points for Dresden and Saxony but have come to be regarded as symbolic of Saxon culture and history, both throughout Germany and internationally. At the same time they assume social responsibility by not only researching, In focus Page 6: A visitor in front of the “Oehme family’s Home Theatre”, c.1800, from the Puppentheatersammlung “The Art of the Enlightenment” in Beijing, the first visitors to the exhibition Federal Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle and Liu Yandong, State Councillor for Culture of the People’s Republic of China, open the exhibition in the National Museum of China on 1 April 2011 THE ART OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Friedrich, Gainsborough, Goya, Graff, Greuze, Hogarth, 7 Kauffmann, Pesne, Piranesi, Tischbein, Vernet and Watteau. In order to do justice to the different aspects and themes It is the most extraordinary and the largest-scale interna- of this highly significant period, the exhibition tour was tional project in which the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen divided into nine sections. The section entitled “Court life Dresden have ever been substantially involved: the exhibi- during the Age of Enlightenment” formed a kind of pro- tion “Die Kunst der Aufklärung” (The Art of the Enlighten- logue, focusing on the Baroque and Enlightenment courts ment), which was opened at the National Museum of in Berlin, Dresden and Munich. The section called “Perspec- China in Beijing on 1 April 2011. Conceived and organised tives of Knowledge” considered the immense influence in association with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the of the natural sciences on life during this period and its Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich and the effects on artistic perspectives. The section on “The Birth National Museum of China, this was the first interna- of History” showed a new awakening of historical aware- tional exhibition to be shown in the newly renovated ness in the 18th century. Fascination not only with past building located on Tiananmen Square. Opened by Fed- ages but, in particular, with foreign and exotic cultures eral Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle and Liu Yan- was the theme in the section entitled “Far and Near”, dong, State Councillor for Culture of the People’s Republic which also considered relations between Europe and of China, the year-long exhibition provided Chinese and China. Under the title “Love and Sensibility” attention international visitors with a sound and multifaceted view was focused on how the meaning of love, friendship and of the Enlightenment as a European cultural epoch. Even empathy changed during the course of the 18th century, though the exhibition is to stay open until March 2012, it as did also attitudes to landscapes and natural forces – a is nevertheless possible to make a provisional appraisal at process which was investigated in the section called “Back the end of 2011. to Nature”. The theme of “Dark Sides” drew attention to the sinister aspects of unfettered rationality, as expressed The exhibition for example in Goya’s “Caprichos”. The next section, In an area covering 2700 m² of floor space, the exhibition “Emancipation and Publicity”, showed how the ideas and presented around 600 objects illustrating the full spec- images of the Enlightenment were circulated by means trum of the arts during the Enlightenment period – from of the nascent mass media. masterpieces of painting, printmaking and sculpture to Towards the end of the exhibition tour, attention was handicrafts and costumes, and even to scientific instru- drawn to contemporary art, raising the question as to the ments. The objects on loan included works by Chodowiecki, significance of 18th-century ideas for artistic creativity Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, Director- General of the Staatliche Museen zu In 2009 the signing of the Cooperation Agreement took place Berlin, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schrenk, Director- in the presence of German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela General of the Bayerische Staats- Merkel and the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in Berlin gemäldesammlungen Munich, and Visitors looking at the painting “Portrait of Prof. Dr. Martin Roth, Director-General Heinrike Dannecker”, 1802, by Gottlieb Schick of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, before the opening of the exhibition 8 today.