2025

This exhibition presents significant artistic works that exemplify this epochal shift from the Enlightenment to the irrationalism of the Storm and Stress movement and Romanticism. For the first time, the immense influence of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on the fine arts and music of his own age is explored.

In parallel to the exhibition Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever, a selection of the collection's holdings, featuring numerous highlights, continues to be presented in the Paintings Gallery under the motto Considering the Collection.

The publication of a comprehensive inventory catalogue of around 200 Italian, French and Spanish artworks of the Paintings Gallery is the occasion for a new focus on Italian and French art in the first three exhibition rooms. In addition, highlights from Bosch to Rembrandt and Rubens to Waldmüller will be on display as part of the format Considering the Collection.