Freyberger, Regina
Treffpunkt Rom 1810: Die Geschichte eines Künstlerstammbuchs
Kataloge der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Vol. 68, ed. by Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
In 2019 Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel was able to acquire an unpublished “album amicorum” which the Livonian nobleman Wilhelm von Blankenhagen (1761–1840) collected in Rome in 1810. The collection includes over 30 drawings by such important artists as Thorvaldsen, Koch or the Lukas brothers Overbeck and Pforr. Russian and Livonian artists such as Matvejeff or Grass are represented, as are the English archaeologist and Greece traveler Dodwell. Like Schick or Rauch, most of the artists came from Caroline von Humboldt's circle.
The importance of the album for research is great. With an excellent basis of sources, it exemplifies the network of relationships between the artists of the Humboldt Circle.
Die Sammlung der Nationalgalerie zum langen 19. Jahrhundert: Erwerbung, Forschung, Dokumentation, Vermittlung
At the time of its founding, the National Gallery initially owned national and international art from the first half of the 19th century. Subsequently, the collection was expanded to include works from current art movements. On the occasion of the publication of the catalog of 19th-century paintings in 2017, a colloquium was held that focused on central aspects of the history of the Nationalgalerie’s collection. The lectures dealt, among other things, with various parts of the collection, with catalogs and documentation, with acquisition practices, with the plurality of modernity, with popularization and communication strategies. The contributions to this conference are now being made available to science and the interested public in this volume.
