Exhibition THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE at the Kulturforum

THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE. Landscapes of the Weimar School of Painting in the Rasmus Collection

THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE
Landscapes of the Weimar School of Painting in the Rasmus Collection

The Hamburg-based Jürgen and Maria Elisabeth Rasmus Foundation is presenting landscape paintings by Theodor Hagen, Christian Rohlfs, Paul Baum, Carl Arp, Hans Peter Feddersen, Hans Olde and many others for the first time in Schwerin. The representatives of the Weimar school of painting led the way in the development of German landscape painting from Naturalism to Impressionism.

From around 1870, French open-air painting exerted a stronger influence on the artists studying at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Art in Weimar than at any other German art academy, directly through teachers such as Theodor Hagen.
The 70 paintings from the Rasmus Collection are accompanied by Mecklenburg representatives of the Weimar School of Painting such as Carl Malchin, Franz Bunke and Friedrich Wachenhusen from the collection of the Mecklenburg Foundation and from private collections. Paintings by Theodor Hagen, Franz Bunke, Alfred Heinsohn and Franz Bartels from the Schwaan Art Museum enrich the presentation.

The exhibition thus spans a broad spectrum: Landscape painters of the Weimar School from the various regions of Germany are presented. The broad spectrum of the paintings on display ranges from an open-air study showing an intimate view of an autumnal forest edge in the surroundings of Weimar to an impressionistically bright, shimmering picture of a spring day in Tuscany. The artists also found their motifs on their travels, for example on the Norwegian coast, in Belgium or on the island of Sylt. They created pictures of the meadows near the Mecklenburg artists' colony of Schwaan, but also in the south of France or Italy. They discovered nature and its special value at a time of increasing industrialization and encroachment on nature.

Duration of the exhibition: 25.5. - 24.8.2024

Admission: 7,- € / reduced 5,- €

Guided tours through the exhibition

with Dörte Ahrens: Thu. 29 May 15:00 // Tue. 17 June 18:00 // Tue. 15 July 18:00 // Thu. 24 July 14:00 // Fri. 1 August 17:00 // Wed. 13 August 18:00 // Thu. 21 August 16:00

with Olaf Both: Wed. June 11 16.00 // Wed. July 9 11.00

with Anne Grunert: Thurs. June 5, 11:00 // Sat. June 21, 11:00 // Thurs. June 26, 14:00 // Wed. July 2, 11:00 // Sun. July 13, 14:00 // Thurs. July 17, 14:00 // Tue. July 22, 11:00 // Wed. July 30, 14:00

Guided tour fee: €2 plus admission

Further guided tours by arrangement and free offers for schools (grades 10-12)

and vocational schools on request: Tel. 0385 55 55 27 or 0385 55 55 25