Italy in lines – Master drawings by Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825)

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death, the Museum Casa di Goethe is dedicating an exhibition to Christoph Heinrich Kniep. This is the first monographic exhibition on the artist’s work in Italy and will offer a broad overview of his oeuvre and life. The exhibition features all creative phases of the artist in 42 works. In addition to the museum’s own master drawings, loans from the Goethe Museums in Weimar and Düsseldorf, the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Istituto centrale per la Grafica in Rome are also on display. The following themes will be presented: Kniep and Goethe in Sicily; the landscape view in contrast to the ideal landscape; the study of botany and its consequences on art; Kniep’s position in the community of German artists in Rome and Naples and his friendship with Tischbein and Hackert.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in German and Italian with an introduction by Gregor H. Lersch and essays by Claudia Nordhoff, Christoph Orth, Jutta Eckle and Andreas Stolzenburg.

An exhibition in collaboration with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar