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Specials 2012
Important exhibitions and recent building and installation projects of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden will be visited by the participants 2012. All visits are accompanied by curators of the exhibitions.
The Sistine Madonna. Raphael´s iconic painting turns 500! This major exhibition celebrates the commission by pope Julius II of this painting, 500 years ago. Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance from some of the most renowned collections in the world are to be assembled in Dresden, where they will underscore the uniqueness of Raphael´s creation.
The plans for the oncoming (2013) innovative presentation of the collection of weaponry and armour in the immense and imposing Riesensaal (Giant´s Hall) in the Residenzschloss will be discussed. The newly opened Türckische Cammer (Turkish Chamber) in the Residenzschloss, featuring the unique collection of ornamental objects, weaponry, representative tents and horse-trappings from the Ottoman empire. The renovated and in 2010 reopened Albertinum, now dedicated to the fine arts of the 19th, 20th century and to contemporary art. It combines in an innovative way, the monumental architecture of this ancient building with an impressive, newly designed spacious roof, spanning the whole of the previously open courtyard where the depots and conservation departments of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen are housed as if suspended in the air. The newly opened study-depot, featuring the important collections of Middle-eastern, Greek and Roman antiquities in the Albertinum, will be visited and discussed.
In October 2011, the Bundeswehrmuseum (Museum of Military History) in Dresden opened its premises with a presentation of the collections according to a totally new concept. In an internationally much acclaimed presentation, the museum shows its collections according to the concept of “the history of violence”. The renowned architect Daniel Libeskind designed an impressive and provocative front that extends into the exhibition rooms, for the monumental 19th century building of the museum that will be visited and discussed.
Dresden was in the early 20th century one of the major centers in Europe where modern art was shaped, even though the conservative conventions of taste of the court and the bourgeoisie still prevailed in the city. In the course, there will be given attention to these important developments that so clearly run parallel to the last phase of the decline and fall of the monarchy (1918) .
The works of the expressionist painters of The Brücke will be discussed and viewed in a study in the Albertinum.
In Hellerau we will visit the workshops and garden city. Here, Richard Riemerschmid and Karl Schmidt cooperated in the design and the production of furniture and elements for interior decoration in which artistic merits and the use of machines and handcraft were combined. Their concept of living and working was realized in Hellerau, the first garden city in Germany (1910). Hellerau, with its integration of the workshop, the Festspielhaus and the garden city, embodies the ideas of the Reform Movement for labour, culture and living in a rural environment. This unique ensemble is well preserved and after the reunification of Germany has renewed its dynamic role, with the new workshop as the motor of this process.