The Museum Georg Schafer presents Magic Nocturnal Moments. Carl Spitzweg and Artists From the Collection on view 27 November 2011 to 19 February 2012.
What did Carl Spitzweg visually expressive of the night and it was like to play a trick, this exhibition features numerous night pieces are first compiled into a separate group from the rich holdings. Friends of the night and Carl Spitzweg meet his interpretation of the Star of Bethlehem, the tattoo or the woman with a lantern. You will witness the Spitzweg’s gaze to a nocturnal rendezvous. The Museum Georg Schäfer will first make an attempt to present this night pictures of the collection complete. That of the visitors that closer to the late work of the artist will face, indicated at the Plantain specialist Jens Christian Jensen “. Since the 60s, Spitzweg intensely busy with night pictures, and in this field a championship reached the unforgettable images created” you get a thematically dense closed Overview Based on more than 60 works in a contemporary setting night. In accordance with the priorities of the museum’s collection Georg Schäfer occurs naturally in the presentation of the period in appearance, which had chosen the night of the key issues. Night pictures of German Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich and Gustav Carus take on contemplation, timeless sense of foundation in the sense of a penetrating pantheism. But the foray into the genre subject, far beyond the period of Biedermeier will also be undertaken with other motifs in this journey through the museum’s collection. Works of great masters of different schools and generations relate thematically: in addition there are Frederick Carus, Oehme, Lessing, Schwind, Lier, Schleich the Elder, Lichtenheld, Menzel, Diez, Hasenclever and others.. Nocturnal drinking scenes, moonlit landscapes, night caps, wisps and illumination to indicate: the night and the visibility of the 19th Century, it ran from the abstract, the belief in the eternity, locked up for the relativization of the darkness, the light radiating gas lantern, night amusement. – www.museumgeorgschaefer.de