Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever

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. 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. 

An exhibition of the Art Collections in co-operation with the Exhibit Gallery

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.   

Guided tour in German

Limited number of participants
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