Heinrich Hintze. Meticulously put into the picture

To date, both the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation and the Potsdam Museum have presented 19th century landscape and architectural painting in numerous exhibitions. The artist Heinrich Hintze himself has so far only been represented in survey exhibitions in Potsdam and Berlin. This is all the more astonishing as the artist's painterly and graphic oeuvre, apart from the formally and technically brilliant realization of his chosen subjects, unites the entire spectrum of the beauty of Potsdam's cultural landscape. Like few of his contemporaries, Hintze was also able to capture impressions of his numerous travels on paper and thus create artistic connections between the most diverse geographical regions. Gerd Bartoschek, former curator of the painting collection at the SPSG and an expert on 19th century landscape painting, recognized the gap in research and took on Hintze's work in a multi-year research project.

At the heart of the exhibition and the catalog are the objects that Hintze designed: paintings, watercolors, prints and paintings on porcelain. The SPSG has the most extensive collection, from which most of the works presented here have been selected. They are complemented by a number of interesting exhibits from other museums and private collections.