The Städtische Galerie Dresden has a unique collection of portraits of artists from the 18th and 19th centuries - the so-called Carus Album. The album was probably created by the Dresden artist Jacob Seydelmann and his wife. Apollonia Seydelmann, herself a miniature painter, ran a salon in Dresden where artists, writers and scholars met. The collection contained drawings by friends and fellow artists of the couple, including the famous Dresden self-portrait by Caspar David Friedrich and a self-portrait of the artist Caroline Bardua, the only portrait of a woman by her own hand in the album. in 1856, the painter, doctor and art collector Carl Gustav Carus acquired the portrait collection and expanded the album to include portraits of artists to whom he had a personal connection and who were important to him as artistic role models. The self-portraits of Georg Friedrich Kersting, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Carl Vogel von Vogelstein were added. Carus also added his own portrait. At the end of the 19th century, the album from Carus' estate came into the municipal collections and was presented in the exhibition rooms of the City Museum. Over the years, the once highly esteemed collection fell out of favour with researchers and the public. Now, for the first time since the end of the war, all 37 portraits can be seen again in an exhibition.
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