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1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded. 1876 – Fürstenzug created. 1878 – Opera house rebuilt. 1889 Albertinum built. [3] Dresden Botanical Garden created. 1891 – Dresden City Museum founded. 1893 – Blue Wonder bridge constructed. 1895 – Dresden Funicular Railway begins operating. 1897 – Dresden Central Station built. 1898
Prague Street (German: Prager Straße) is an oil-and-collage-on-canvas painting by the German painter Otto Dix, executed in 1920, which depicts the Prager Straße in Dresden, shortly after the First World War. It is held at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, formerly known as Galerie der Stadt. [1]
Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. [3] The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. [2] Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg.
Dresden is today reestablishing the cultural importance it held from the 19th century up until the 1920s when it was a centre of both fine and visual arts, architecture and music. During that period, famous artists such as Richard Wagner , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Dix , Oskar Kokoschka , Richard Strauss , Gottfried Semper and Gret Palucca ...
From the beginning, white porcelain was sold to the Dresden freelance decorators and across Europe. Likewise, not only self-made but also purchased white porcelain was painted and sold there. [citation needed] The flower modeller Carl August Kuntzsch (1855–1920), a son-in-law of Thieme, played a key role in the company's success.
In mid-March 1920, right-wing opponents of the Weimar Republic instigated the Kapp Putsch in Berlin. In the demonstrations that broke out against it across Saxony, the worst violence occurred in Dresden, where 59 protesters were killed by government troops.
King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony followed him into abdication when workers' and soldiers' councils were set up in the cities of Dresden, Chemnitz and Leipzig. Within the newly formed Weimar Republic, on 1 November 1920, the Kingdom of Saxony was reorganized into the Free State of Saxony [4]
The Dresdner Sezession (Dresden Secession) was an art group aligned with German Expressionism founded by Otto Schubert, Conrad Felixmüller and his pupil Otto Dix in Dresden, during a period of political and social turmoil in the aftermath of World War I. The group's activity spanned from 1919 until its final collective exhibition in 1925.