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From Thursday, 31 October 2024, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden will present the exhibition ‘Admired, collected, exhibited. Disability in Baroque and Contemporary Art’. The exhibition is curated by Dirk Weber.
An iconic painting had been in the Elector’s Kunstkammer in Dresden since 1603. It depicts the foot artist Thomas Schweicker (1540-1602) from Schwäbisch Hall – a man who was born without arms and achieved national fame as a calligrapher.
The work was exhibited in the second room of the Kunstkammer alongside the portraits of the electoral family and friendly aristocratic houses. After the collection was dissolved in 1832, it became …
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Image above: Jakob Hoffmann, Bildnis des Thomas Schweicker, 1595© Kunstkammer Georg Laue, München/London, Foto: Jens Bruchhaus.
