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

Song Recital / Lesson

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;

Lecture by Michael Auer
Klopstocks Sound und Ossians Stimmen
(in German)

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

Considering the Collection & Cranach’s Holy Productivity
An Insert by Klaus Scherübel (26.6.2024–16.2.2025)

History Tales. Fact and Fiction in
History Painting
 (27.9.2023–26.5.2024)

Considering the Collection &
King Vulture An Insert by Willem de Rooij (8.3.–20.8.2023)

The Purloined Masterpiece
Images as Time Machines
(7.4.2022–29.1.2023)