Exhibitions:
Baltic Biedermeier
September 19, 2009 – August 29, 2010
The exhibition introduces the heyday of Baltic German art and culture, and examines the manifestations and meanings of the local culture in the first half of the 19th century, on the basis of Estonian and Latvian art collections. As is sometimes said, art created in the era of Biedermeier, which was mainly connected with the German language space, was classicism adjusted to the world-view of the bourgeoisie. In this view of the world, the central ideas were the family, intimacy, matter-of-factness, and withdrawal from the social world into the domestic sphere, which is typical of times between tumultuous events. Due to the corporative social order and closedness of society at the time, these traits were particularly amplified in the nobility culture of the Baltic provinces, where personal relationships extended more widely than the immediate family and the whole Baltic German public life had a familial character.
Road to Reval
February 13 – March 21, 2010
"Road to Reval" is another successful cooperation project between the Mikkel Museum and various private collections and galleries. The exhibition presents important examples of Estonian and Baltic painting treasures, brought to Estonia with the help of the St Lucas Gallery. The exhibition includes works by K. T. von Neff, J. Hagen-Schwarz, E. Liphart, O. Hoffmann, E. von Gebhardt, E. Dücker, G. von Bochmann, J. Köler, A. Weizenberg and many others.
Several paintings displayed at the exhibition still belong to the St Lucas Gallery, while others belong to the collections of some local art collectors. The exhibition also includes the most valuable purchase of the Art Museum of Estonia in 2009: three family portraits by the 18th century master Michael Ludwig Claus.
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