History and culture: The exhibition “Meeting with Hoffmann” in Moscow

March 2, 2016 in the White Hall of the Library for Foreign Literature (Moscow) is opened the exhibition "Meeting with Hoffmann", organized jointly with the Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum within the framework of the Exhibition Center of the Library "Word and Image" and dedicated to the 240th anniversary of his birth the great German writer E.-T.-A. Hoffmann.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann is a classic of German literature, one of the greatest romantic writers, who formulated the essential trends of romanticism. Contributing to the development of the world and, in particular, Russian literature, the first mystic in European literature, he became well-known in Russia in the 20s of the XIX century and had a significant impact on the Russian classics such as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov. Hoffmann, since the XIX century, was one of the most translated and published foreign authors in Russia.

The Kaliningrad History and Art Museum is a member of the International Society of E.-T.-A. Hoffmann. In the period from 2006 to 2015 museum specialists created a cycle large-scale art exhibitions, dedicated to the works of the writer. The exhibition "Meeting with Hoffmann" visited Bamberg, Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig - the city is connected with the life and work of Hoffmann. At the initiative of the Exhibition the exhibition will be on display for the first time in Moscow, in the Library for Foreign Literature.

The exhibition presents materials about the fate of E.-T.-A. Hoffmann and the little-known pages of his biography, as well as works by artists of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vilnius, dedicated to the controversial, sublime and passionate nature Konigsberg romance. At the exhibition the viewer will have an opportunity to see the film adaptation of the works of E.-T.-A. Hoffmann.

The exhibition will run till March 27, 2016.