„Too beautiful!“. Der englische Blick auf den Rhein
In the organizer's words:
In 1845, the British Queen Victoria took a cruise on the Rhine with her German Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Overwhelmed by the romantic river landscape, she wrote in her diary about the Drachenfels: "Too beautiful!". However, the two royals were by no means the first Britons on the Rhine. 2024 also marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, whose poetry helped the Rhine to achieve unprecedented popularity.
This gave rise to an exhibition in which the Middle Rhine Museum and the Siebengebirgsmuseum Königswinter are jointly devoting themselves to the discovery of the Rhine landscape by British tourists and artists in the 19th century. Following the course of the Rhine, paintings by British artists show the important stops made by travelers along the Rhine. In addition to paintings and watercolors by well-known artists such as Clarkson Stanfield, Samuel Prout and David Roberts as well as William Turner, caricatures are on display that document the British passion for travel and that established a perception of the typical tourist that still has an impact today.
Although these well-known English painters and writers shaped today's image of the English on the Rhine, the majority belonged to completely different professional groups. One aim of the exhibition project is to broaden the view and, in addition to the experiences of the celebrities, to tell characteristic episodes with lesser-known protagonists. The exhibition is intended to take into account the travel experiences of women as well as men and to portray both the typical and the unusual.
In cooperation with the Siebengebirgsmuseum Königswinter and the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz
Location: Special exhibition
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