After the exhibition Dreams of Freedom. Romanticism in Russia and Germany has already been a great success at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the exhibition will also be on show in the Salzgassen Wing of the Albertinum Dresden from 2 October 2021 to 6 February 2022. It presents more than 140 paintings of the Romantic period, 70 of which are on loan from Russian museums, among them the State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow and the State Hermitage St. Petersburg. In addition, works from German museums such as the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Hamburger Kunsthalle will be on display, as well as documents and objects connected with the lives of the artists and other historical figures of the period. With Caspar David Friedrich, Alexei Venetsianov, Carl Gustav Carus and Alexander Ivanov, the focus of the exhibition is on outstanding Russian and German artists of the Romantic period, who deal with themes such as night landscapes, longing for Italy, religion and the freedom of art.
Dreams of Freedom deals with the upheaval at the beginning of the 19th century: the French Revolution, Napoleon as well as government efforts to restrict civil rights in Germany and Russia on the one hand - an artistic cosmos dominated by emotions with revolutionary potential on the other. The artists of the Romantic period combined their dreams of freedom with artistic individualism and social utopias. The special exhibition Dreams of Freedom aims to show the continuing impact of Romanticism and the themes associated with it in the present day. This includes, among other things, the question of the subject, a self-determined, free life, a home of one's own choosing, as well as threats posed by wars and the striving for emancipation.
