ART STORIES New acquisitions in the Casa di Goethe collection

6 February 2026 – 12 April 2026
5 February 2026, 7 p.m. Opening

Welcome words

Gregor H. Lersch, Director of Casa di Goethe
Andreas Krüger, Head of the Cultural Department of the German Embassy Rome
Konrad Heumann, Head of the Manuscripts Department at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift and member of the board of ASKI e.V.
Claudia Nordhoff, Research Officer at Casa di Goethe

The Casa di Goethe is opening its art repository and presenting new additions from recent years. These include artists from Goethe’s circle, such as Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein and Jakob Philipp Hackert. They are represented in the exhibition with extraordinary drawings that are being shown here for the first time. In addition, greater attention is being paid to the German artists’ association in Rome in the 19th century, whose historical library is preserved in the museum: the paintings of these artists, including Oswald Achenbach and Wilhelm Brücke, are now increasingly finding their way into the collection. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the works of Filippo de Pisis, Henry Moore and Claudia Berg open up new perspectives on Goethe’s work. From the 18th century to the present day: a broad artistic spectrum that illustrates the Casa di Goethe’s collection activities.

Bild: Wilhelm Brücke, Vollmond über dem Golf von Neapel mit ausbrechendem Vesuv, 1847, Casa di Goethe © Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome (Enrico Fontolan)