Johann Georg Bergmueller
dal 16/2/2005 al 17/4/2005
Segnalato da
16/2/2005
Johann Georg Bergmueller
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
One of the most important German artists of the transitional period from late-Baroque to the Rococo. Approximately 50 drawings will vividly reveal his importance as a drawer. Swiftly executed preliminary sketches and carefully worked, water colored commissioned models for frescoes, precise engraving templates for altar works and ceiling paintings all provide a look at the richly facetted world of his art.
(1688-1762) - The Drawings
Johann Georg Bergmüller (Türkheim 1688-1762 Augsburg) is considered to be one of the most important German artists of the transitional period from late-Baroque to the Rococo. Bergmüller was simultaneously known for his work as a painter, drawer, fresco artist, engraver, publisher and art theoretician. For the first time ever, an exhibition is set to be devoted to Johann Georg Bergmüller’s hand drawings. Approximately 50 drawings will vividly reveal his importance as a drawer. Swiftly executed preliminary sketches and carefully worked, water colored commissioned models for frescoes, precise engraving templates for altar works and ceiling paintings all provide a look at the richly facetted world of his art.
Those works on loan will include, among others, galleries and collections in Vienna (Albertina), Basel, Vaduz, Stuttgart, Augsburg and Salzburg. The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich itself holds the largest individual inventory. In turn, these works stem from the important collection of Bavarian drawings of Felix Harms (1758-1810).
A smaller exhibition within the exhibition will take a look back at Felix Harm’s art prose and collecting activity. The exhibition is a cooperative project with the Barockmuseum Salzburg. A catalogue raisonne of all of Bergmüller’s drawings will be published.
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