Living landscapes - a journey through German art

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Masterpieces from the State collections of Dresden, Munich, and Berlin showcase a “Journey through German Art” over the last 200 years. The interplay between landscape and human figure—the “living landscape”—has been a significant theme since German Romanticism. This journey highlights works by renowned artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter, and Carl Gustav Carus from the Romantic era, alongside Expressionist figures like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Otto Mueller, and Emil Nolde, as well as contemporary artists including K. H. Hödicke, Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, and Markus Lüpertz. Each of these artistic movements serves as a reference point in the histories of Dresden, Berlin, and Munich, which also reflect the evolution of their respective art collections. The exploration of the relationship between man and nature, and between subject and space, reveals diverse and often surprising dimensions from the 19th to the 21st century, providing a rich narrative throughout the book.