The State Hermitage is home to the most significant collection of the works of Caspar David Friedrich outside of Germany.
This exhibition will be devoted to the Romantic artist himself, his connections to the Prussian royal and Russian imperial families, and also the topic of the many years of friendship that linked the German painter and the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, a popularizer of German Romantic literature and fine art in Russia and of Russian culture in Germany.
The exhibition focusses on Friedrich’s works kept in the Hermitage and other Russian museums. Additionally, it is planned to show Zhukovsky’s graphic art and the works of other artists who were in close creative contact with him. The chronological limits of the exhibits will be defined by the period when Friedrich and Zhukovsky were creatively active.
