Hauptstraße
Tree-lined baroque pedestrian boulevard with townhouses, sandstone statues and a Romantic-era museum.
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This guide to Hauptstraße in Dresden's Neustadt stops at number thirteen, the townhouse where the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen lived with his family from eighteen-oh-eight to eighteen-twenty. It follows a portraitist whose rooms drew Goethe's attention and Caspar David Friedrich's friendship, and one March evening when he set out from his studio in Loschwitz toward home. Best heard on the boulevard facing the house, where you can read the old inscription along its roof.
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