„Das Riesengebirge. Die Künstlerkolonie Schreiberhau”. Gemäldegalerie Dachau, 07.11.2008-08.03.2009. Omówienie wystawy
"Das Riesengebirge. Die Künstlerkolonie Schreiberhau". Gemäldegalerie Dachau, 07/11/2008-08/03/2009. Overview of the exhibition

Summary/Abstract: Artists’ interest in the Karkonosze Mountains (Das Riesengebirge) began already in the period of Classicism when such artists as Ch.F. Nathe and S.C. Christoph Reinhardt made their views popular in coloured engravings. Among the nineteenthcentury painters who preserved the Karkonosze landscapes C. D. Friedrich, J.Ch.C. Dahl or Ludwig Richter should be mentioned. However, the greatest popularity of the Karkonosze Mountains among artists came after World War I when A. Nikisch, H. Oberländer and F. von Jackowski settled in Szklarska Poręba. They established St Lucas Artistic Society of Creators, which gathered many artists arriving mainly from Wrocław, but also from other German centres. The group’s activity was presented within the exhibition held by The Painting Gallery and The District Museum in Dachau. The exhibition showed over fifty works of painting (P. Aust, W. Fechner, M. Hagedorn, C.A. Heinisch, F. von Jackowski, E.W. Knippel, A. Nikisch, H.E. Oberländer, W. Oltmansam, M. Uhling, A. Wasner, P. Weimann, G.H. Wichmann and J. Wichmann’s among others), as well as their teachers’: A. Dressler, C.E. Morgenstern and M. Wislicenus. There were also presented some works by the artists not strictly bound to the artists’ colony in Szklarska Poręba (e.g. E.H. Compton), and some sculptures by C. dell’Antonio and O. Wache who were active mainly in a wood-carving school in Cieplice.The exhibition presented works of high artistic value created by the members of the artists’ colony from Szklarska Poręba, which often come from private collections. Good exposition of the works in the spacious interior of one of the Gallery’s rooms let the organisers create a complete image of a stylistically varied group of the Silesian landscape painters. Too little information on the group’s activity is partly completed in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue.The exposition is completed by another exhibition taking place in the nearby District Museum, related to the legend of Rübezahl – the Karkonosze Spirit of the Mountains, which presents numerous examples of the legend’s reception in the 19th– and 20th-century culture, not only in German language countries.

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