Wir geben den Ton an / We Set the Tone Bilder der Musik von Mantegna bis Matisse / Picturing Music from Mantegna to Matisse

by Korbacher, Dagmar; Heroven, Catalina

• ISBN13: 9783731905936
• ISBN10: 3731905930
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-07-01
• Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag

Summary

The Kupferstichkabinett dedicates its fourth summer exhibition to a richly varied and entertaining theme: music as depicted in drawings and prints. The exhibition presents a selection of the museum’s most beautiful and humorous musical images, including prints and drawings by Andrea Mantegna, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Adolph Menzel, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, and Morgan O’Hara. In addition to the list of great artists featured, are the names of the great musicians and composers who are depicted in the various works, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Niccolò Paganini. Whole choirs and orchestras complement other soloist works; the repertoire ranges from opera to rock, via café music and jazz, with the recurring leitmotif being the special affinity between musical and pictorial expression in the graphic arts.

Author Biography

Dagmar Korbacher (born 1975 in Erlangen) is the curator of Italian, French and Spanish art before 1800 at the Kupferstichkabinett (museum of drawings and prints) of the State Museums in Berlin. Before joining the museum in 2010, she worked at the Gemäldegalerie of State Museums in Berlin, at Christie’s auction house in Amsterdam and at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and as a lecturer in art history at the University of Eichstätt. Dagmar Korbacher has curated various exhibitions of drawings and prints at the Kupferstichkabinett: “Botticelli and treasures from the Hamilton collection” (2015-2016, as well in London at the Courtauld Gallery); “Arcadia – Paradise on Paper. Landscape and Myths in Italy” (2014); and edited as well as contributed to various catalogs. Catalina Heroven studied History of Art and Romance Philology at Universität zu Köln. Before joining the Kupferstichkabinett (museum of drawings and prints) of the State Museums in Berlin in 2015, she worked at the Gemäldegalerie of State Museums in Berlin, at Klaus Wagenbach Publishing House, at the Cultural Section of the Chilean Embassy in Berlin and at the German Centre for the History of Art in Paris.