Russian romance in Dresden

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The exhibition of Russia and Germany “Dreams of Freedom” opened in Dresden. It is represented in the Dresden museum Albertinum. The project includes two exhibitions, one in Moscow and the other in Dresden.

The Russian Ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechaev, announced the exhibition, which was dedicated to Romanticism, calling it “an outstanding Russian-German project”.

The designer of the exhibition for Moscow and Dresden was the American architect Daniel Libesund. 

“I’m probably the right architect for this exhibition: I’m from Poland, which is right between Russia and Germany. Working on this project during the pandemic became a real freedom: it crosses borders – geographical, social, political, connecting people”, –  Libesund said about his project. 

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The curators of the exhibition in Russia were Lyudmila Markina, head of the 18th and first half of the 19th century painting department of the Tretyakov Gallery, and Sergei Fofanov, researcher at the Tretyakov Gallery; on the German side, Holger Birkholz, curator of the Albertinum museum.

The exhibition was inspired by romanticism in art. Modern art was added to the art of the nineteenth century to express the relevance of the ideas of Romanticism today.

The era of Romanticism is at a new stage of development in modern art and is associated with the search for spiritual as well as creative freedom: many scholars consider this period as a point of reference in the formation of the modern worldview of current generations. 

The exhibition is divided into different themes: “Love,” “Motherland,” Friendship” and so on. The “Religion” section is home to the “Sistine Madonna” – a very high quality copy by Alexei Markov, acquired for the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. And opposite her you can see another version of Raphael’s masterpiece by Ferdinand Zapf painted on porcelain.

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The project “Dreams of Freedom” includes two exhibitions in Moscow and Dresden. German and Russian romantics used common language to express the experience of the dramas of loneliness, cruel love, disillusionment and new hopes.