A selection from the most comprehensive and important private collection of German drawings and watercolors (assembled by Alfred Winterstein, 1898-1976) from the age of Goethe, this traveling exhibition, organized by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will explore the range and significance of drawings in Germany around 1800, from the age of Enlightenment through the romantic era until the early realism of Menzel.

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The exhibition curator is Hinrich Sieveking, curator of the Winterstein Collection, Munich. Consummate draftsmen like Caspar David Friedrich, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Johann Georg von Dillis, and Adolf Menzel will be represented in depth, as will romantic silhouettes by Philipp Otto Runge and his contemporaries, and architectural studies by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Leo von Klenze. Among the typically romantic subjects well represented in the collection are portraits, especially artists' portraits, landscapes, and the phenomenon of the English garden. Exceedingly rare in the private and public collections of the United States, these drawings and watercolors will afford the viewer an opportunity to study beautiful works from the greatest era of German draftsmanship. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue. Fuseli to Menzel is organized at the Harvard University Art Museums by William Robinson, Ian Woodner Curator of Drawings, and Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of Merck, Finck & Co., Privatbankiers, a member of the Barclays group, with additional support from the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Press Release.