The View Matters

Dresden Through the Eyes of Artists – A Journey Across the 20th Century

On the second floor of the Landhaus, the Städtische Galerie presents artistic views of the city of Dresden throughout the 20th century - with paintings from Gotthardt Kuehl to Siegfried Klotz.

It is not only from the famous »painter's angle« on Brühl's Terrace that artists since Bernardo Bellotto have repeatedly sought out original views of the city of Dresden and captured them on canvas. Due to its regional focus, the Städtische Galerie's collection contains numerous such works by well-known and unknown artists. Based on a selection of 56 paintings, we juxtapose retrospective views of the cityscape before 1945 with interesting images of the reconstruction of the 1950s and 1960s as well as individual approaches to unspectacular places in the urban fabric. The Elbe as the city's lifeline and its bridges through the ages play an important role.

The exhibition also provides an exciting overview of the development of painting from the realism of the late 19th century through impressionist, expressionist, neo-objective and socialist-realist tendencies to the stylistic openness of the 1990s.