THE NETHERLANDS The Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14 Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 530 87 55 CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH AND THE GERMAN ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE 20.9.08 - 18.1.09 The Hermitage Amsterdam is to end its stay on Nieuwe Herengracht with a remarkable finale. For the first time ever all the works by Caspar David Friedrich from the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg will be loaned for a special exhibition focusing on this renowned German artist. His paintings and drawings are at the centre of the exhibition, but they are surrounded by works by contemporaries, predecessors and followers. They all present aspects of the Romantic landscape and illustrate the special ties between these painters , with Friedrich at the fore, and Tsar Nicholas I. Particularly noteworthy are the watercolours by Carl Fohr, which have not been shown or published before and were discovered during the preparations for this exhibition, the last to be held in the Neerlandia building. Afterwards the Hermitage Amsterdam will move to the adjacent Amstelhof. This second phase will open before the summer of 2009. The present premises will be converted into the Hermitage for Children. IMAGES OF ST PETERSBURG 7.6.08 - 24.8.08 The exhibition 'Images of St Petersburg', which includes over 100 photographs from the Hermitage collection, provides a unique opportunity to see life in St Petersburg in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the city was still the capital and lively centre of the Russian empire. The basis of the collection consisted of the large numbers of photographs from the private apartments and libraries of the Winter Palace, property of the last Tsars – Alexander III and Nicholas II – and their families. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 these were supplemented by the nationalised photography collections originating from the palaces of families such as those of Counts Bobrinsky and Stroganov.