Saint Petersburg as Franz Liszt saw it

10 Aug — 1 Dec 2024 at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, United States

21 October 2024

Ferdinand Victor Perrot, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, The building of Saint Petersburg’s old stock exchange, ca. 1840. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

Ferdinand Victor Perrot, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, The building of Saint Petersburg’s old stock exchange, ca. 1840. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

This exhibition is organized in conjunction with the American Liszt Society Festival at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music October 13 - 16, 2024. The event celebrates the legacy of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886). This year’s edition of the festival focuses on the idea of the “composer-pianist” and highlights Liszt’s visits to Russia in the 1840s.

Our exhibition features works on paper from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection showing Russia at the time of the great musician’s visit. Large lithographic prints feature cityscapes of St. Petersburg, while small hand-colored ones picture genre scenes and different occupations: coachmen, porters, water carriers, innkeepers, street peddlers.

All these prints were issued by the same publisher, Giuseppe Daziaro (1796 – 1865). Daziaro held shops in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris and Warsaw. He also collaborated with the French printer Lemercier à Paris. Within their sweeping vistas, the large cityscapes contain figures and scenes that find close parallels in the small prints.

(Curator: Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art)

Georgia Museum of Art

Georgia Museum of Art

The Georgia Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Georgia, in Athens, is both an academic museum and the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; and growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art.

Location

Athens, United States

Founded in

1982

Samuel Friedrich Deitz, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Bolshoi theater in St. Petersburg, ca. 1840. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

Ferdinand Victor Perrot, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Academy of fine arts, ca. 1850. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

Adolf Besemann, Jacomme and Cie, Daziaro Publishing House, Theatre of Empress Alexandra, ca. 1844. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

Samuel Friedrich Deitz, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Bolshoi theater in St. Petersburg, ca. 1840. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art
Ferdinand Victor Perrot, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Academy of fine arts, ca. 1850. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art
Adolf Besemann, Jacomme and Cie, Daziaro Publishing House, Theatre of Empress Alexandra, ca. 1844. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

Ferdinand Victor Perrot, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Academy of fine arts, ca. 1850. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art
Adolf Besemann, Jacomme and Cie, Daziaro Publishing House, Theatre of Empress Alexandra, ca. 1844. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art
Samuel Friedrich Deitz, Imprimeries Lemercier, Daziaro Publishing House, Bolshoi theater in St. Petersburg, ca. 1840. Courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art

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