The Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald first time an exhibition of Danish art works of Romanticism, the art collector and patron Christoph Müller has donated to the museum. On Saturday in the museum 70 works of to see “Copenhagen School of Painting”.
43 the images are from the holdings of 374 works that Müller had donated to the museum in April. They are supplemented by photos from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. There, the exhibition was also seen before. The show in Greifswald will be open until November 27
“For us this is a great happiness”, curator Birte Frenssen said Friday. “The donation is the largest increase since the museum opened. “the national Museum, whose art collection puts a special focus on those born in Greifswald romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), had previously possessed no artwork Danish painter, Frenssen said,” Here, Friedrich studied in Copenhagen “
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Among the works are about images of Jens Juel and Nicolai Abildgaard, who were Frederick teacher. Also born in Wolgast painter Philipp Otto Runge and born in Güstrow Georg Friedrich Kersting had been influenced by the painters of Copenhagen.
Frenssen said the exhibition was an “appetizer” for the planned future permanent exhibition works from the donation. The images are expected to be shown in 2018 in the planned Landesmuseum “Gallery of Romanticism”.
Christoph Müller (77), former owner of the Swabian Tagblatt had begun a few years ago with the gathering of Danish Romanticism , The images are already the second collection of art patron who goes to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 2013 handed Müller, who lives on Rügen, the State Museum Schwerin his collection with 155 works by Dutch masters from the 16th to 18th centuries. In April he had replied to the question about the reason for the donations: “For rich people, there is only one decent way to spend money. To collect for museums”
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