Jul 4 – Aug 30, 2025
online only
Light models shapes, creates atmosphere, tells stories.
In our summer exhibition “Play of Light”, we invite you to immerse yourself in the multi-colored world of light and trace its changing manifestations - in paintings, watercolors and graphics from Impressionism to the present day.
On display are works by artists who have each depicted light in their own unique way.
Klaus Fußmann and Christopher Lehmpfuhl capture the radiant landscapes and the shimmering summer air in powerful brushstrokes and impasto surfaces. Hermann Hesse shows the quiet poetry of Mediterranean moments of light in his fine watercolors.
Henri Edmond Cross, one of the main representatives of pointillism, breaks light down into its colored components. In Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's work, we encounter light in expressive colors and brushstrokes. Hans Purrmann lets the southern glow of light shine in his richly colored paintings, while Lesser Ury captures the urban play of light in the big city during a walk in the park, in nocturnal reflections or rain reflections. Finally, Max Liebermann makes the summer light glow in shimmering beach and garden pictures.
In Heinz Mack's works, light itself becomes the material. His reliefs, mirror objects and light installations refract, reflect and transform the light in ever new ways - it becomes visible, tangible, almost physical. Mack makes it possible to experience what light means in 20th century art: movement, energy and transcendence.
Especially now in summer, when the days are long and the shadows are short, the exhibition is an invitation to consider light not only as a physical phenomenon, but also as a carrier of emotion, time and place, and to be captivated by its narrative power through our fine selection of artworks.
