Between Dresden and St. Petersburg. Artist Twin Brothers von Kügelgen

For the first time, it is possible to get an excellent survey of the works by the Kügelgens that can be found in German and Russian museums, as well as in private collections. Works have been lent to the exhibition by the following institutions: the State Hermitage, the Pavlovsk Palace and Park, the Dresden State Art Collections – the New Masters Gallery and the Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, the Dresden City Museum, the Kügelgenhaus – Museum of Dresden Romanticism, the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, the University of Tartu Library, and many private collections in Germany and Estonia. Along with the loans from St. Petersburg and Dresden, the pride of Estonia’s art heritage is also on display. This includes views of Tallinn commissioned from Karl von Kügelgen by the tsar and Gerhard von Kügelgen’s portraits of the great men of German literature – Goethe, Herder and Wieland – which belong to the University of Tartu and are some of the most internationally renowned works of art in Estonia.

Photo: Stanislav Stepaško