Exhibition Views 2007
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September 22 - January 20, 2008 Gottlieb Welté is the most important artist, who worked in Estonia in the late 18th century, but until now neither Estonia nor his hometown Mainz possessed a comprehensive overview of his artistic output. The exhibition Rococo in Estonia is the first international summary of Gottlieb Welté's work. The basic milestones of his career have been reconstructed, although there still remain many white areas and question marks. His works, accomplished mostly in small format, represent rococo and transition to early classicism. In Estonia, he painted figural staffages on large Põltsamaa landscapes and depicted Estonian peasants in the 1780's; in Mainz and Frankfurt-am-Main he was known mostly as an etcher and a landscapist. Welté was a typical artist of the Enlightenment – pensive, developing and nonconformist. Exhibition curator: Anne Untera |
