Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever

Art educators from the Paintings Gallery and Exhibit Galerie will guide you through the exhibition, which is based on significant artistic examples 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. With interpretations of his work in art and music by Angelika Kauffmann, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Josef Abel, and Franz Schubert, the republican poet Klopstock was surprisingly still very present in the Habsburg Empire at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Guided tour in German

Afterwards, at 5 pm, the sound performanceThe Nascence of the Little Slaughterings by Ina Ebenberger and Amar Priganica will take place in the Paintings Gallery.
Duration: 45 min

An exhibition of the Art Collections in co-operation with the Exhibit Gallery curated by Alexander Roob

Alexander Roob studied painting at the University of the Arts Berlin and then worked as a comic artist, scene painter and church painter. Since 1985 he has been dealing with the principles of sequential drawing modes and hermetic emblematics in the course of his ongoing documentary drawing project CS. From 2000 to 2002, he taught graphic art at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, and later drawing and painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 2005, he and Clemens Krümmel founded the Melton Prior Institute in Düsseldorf that is dedicated to researching the history of reportage drawing and printing culture. In 2019 he and a work group at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart initiated a re-imagination of the lost magnum opus of William Blake, the painting The Ancient Britons.   

Registration required at +43 1 588 16 2201
or kunstsammlungen@akbild.ac.at
Guided tour fee: per person 5 Euro (excl. admission)
Meeting Point: Foyer of the Paintings Gallery

There are no costs for the sound performance at 5 pm apart from the entrance fee to the exhibition.