Excursions & Hikes, Exhibition
Exhibition opening on May 25 at the Kulturforum
Sunday, 25/05/2025 / 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM / Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein-Haus
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
We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening on Sunday, May 25, at 11.30 a.m. in the Kulturforum.
The following will speak:
Dr. Florian Ostrop | Mecklenburg Foundation
Dörte Ahrens | Kulturforum SHH
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer | Jürgen and Maria Elisabeth Rasmus Foundation
Music: Johanna Lorenz, harp | Joanne Meech, violin
Admission to the exhibition opening is free.
About the exhibition
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
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