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Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to the present.

Not a traditional survey, this exhibition instead presents 18 works by the two best-known painters from Dresden: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), the key voice of German Romanticism; and Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), one of the most significant German artists working today. The works by Friedrich include his 1807-1808 masterwork, Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar), while Richter is represented by 12 abstractions from 2005.

Twelve other paintings by such artists as Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Christian Dahl, Otto Dix and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff are interspersed throughout the museum’s permanent collection of paintings. These juxtapositions address diverse aspects of German art between 1800 and World War I, including Romanticism and the sublime, and the interrelationships between Germany’s artistic heritage and European culture at large.

An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with Gerhard Richter, accompanies the exhibition.