Lektionen / Lessons

Lecture series

The format Lektionen / Lessons offers contexts and background information on the artworks of the exhibitions in the Paintings Gallery.

Lectures on the exhibition Wild Apollo's Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever.
Dates and information will be added on an ongoing basis. 


19.5.2025
18 h
Anatomy Hall

Dietmar Rübel
Ossian und die europäische Traumzeit, oder: Der Beginn der Moderne als Retromanie

(in German)

20.5.2025
18:30
Atelierhaus

Klopstock’s Sound and Ossian’s Voices
Song Recital & Lesson


Lecture (in German) by Michael Auer and Poems by Klopstock, Macpherson, Hunter, set to music by Bach, Gluck, Haydn, and Schubert, sung by Tia Pikija (soprano) and Daniel Sauer (baritone), class Florian Boesch; Jelena Pešić (piano), class Markus Hadulla; in cooperation with mdw – universität für musik und darstellende kunst wien;

In addition to the program, a guided tour with curator Alexander Roob will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Paintings Gallery.
Josef Abel, Klopstock’s Arrival in Elysium (detail), 1805
© National Gallery Prague 2024


Lektionen / Lessons online

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History Painting
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