Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel

Dresden 2023

The international loan exhibition Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel realised by the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) in collaboration with the Katrin Bellinger Collection took place in the spacious galleries of the Dresden Residenzschloss (8 July – 8 October 2023). The dynamic display of over 120 works, primarily drawings and prints, was conceived to take visitors on a journey across different historical periods and geographical contexts. From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, from Albrecht Dürer’s voyages to those of the young Nazarenes and beyond, the chosen drawings, sketchbooks and prints revealed experiences made on the road, telling of personal aspirations, friendships and exchanges nourished by travel. The display was comprised of three sections: “On the Road”, “Destination Rome”, and “Dresden”. Works selected from the rich holdings of the SKD were placed in dialogue with a substantial group lent by the Katrin Bellinger Collection. These were supplemented by a number of remarkable loans from institutions in Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Commissioned and loaned contemporary pieces, including Frozen Sky by Langlands & Bell, offered further inspiring perspectives on the topic of travel and connectivity.

The exhibition and catalogue were co-curated and edited by Stephanie Buck, Director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and Anita V. Sganzerla, curator of the Katrin Bellinger Collection.

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Thomas Rowlandson, London 1756 - 1827 London

An Artist Travelling in Wales, c. 1797

Pen and ink and watercolour over touches of pencil. On the artist's original wash line mount., 28.2 x 28.2cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 2019-044

Carlo Labruzzi , Rome 1748 - 1817 Perugia

The Colosseum from the Palatine Hill, Rome, late 1760s-1780

Pen and watercolour over traces of pencil, 37.5 x 54cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 2012-017

Johann Christian Reinhart , Hof 1761 - 1847 Rome

Farm in Connewitz near Leipzig, 1785-1786

Watercolour over pencil and ink on paper, 28.5 x 33cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 2018-045

Antoine-Félix Boisselier , Paris 1790 - 1857 Versailles

An Artist with a Sketchbook Perched in a Tree

Pen and brown wash, black chalk, and pencil, 15 x 10.7cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 1996-008

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc , Paris 1814 - 1879

The Artist Sketching While Trapped in a Crevasse, 1870

Watercolour heightened with gouache, 22.9 x 13.3cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 2017-003

Lambert Doomer, Amsterdam 1624 - 1700 Amsterdam

An Artist Seated by a Tree, Sketching a Belt of Trees, 1660

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 14.5 x 11.7cm Katrin Bellinger Collection, inv. no. 1992-001