In the spring exhibition 2025, works from the Spielmann-Hoppe Collection and Art Foundation in Hamburg, works by Friedel Anderson, Eduard Bargheer,
The "Reisblätter" from the collection of the Sielmann-Hoppe Art Foundation comprise around 40 watercolors, pastels, drawings, etchings and lithographs. They take visitors to the exhibition to Italy, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, London and New York, but also to Hamburg and Berlin. Spielmann writes about Kokoschka's travel pictures: "Kokoschka's mode of representation in his travel lithographs appears painterly and generous; the expansive view, which extends beyond the narrow field of vision, was just as important to the draughtsman as the sky that spans the scenery. In these lithographs, he made use of his experiences from his painted travel pictures."
The Foundation's selection, made by Anka Kröhnke, is juxtaposed with works by Waldemar Rölser, Louise Rölser and Walter Kröhnke from the Rösler-Kröhnke studio collection. They complement the spectrum of travel destinations around France and Spain, but also around the North and Baltic Sea. "Waldmar Rösler created, as his friend Kurt Badt, one of the most important German art historians of the 20th century, wrote, 'a new image of nature'. The critic Karl Scheffler attested to his creation of a 'new art world full of non-objective beauty'. In summer, Rösler painted in Klein Kuhren in East Prussia, in winter he captured in Berlin how industrialization was taking over the city from the outskirts - in paintings as well as in charcoal drawings and lithographs, which unfold an extraordinary painterly quality in softly modulating black and white," says art historian Dr. Regina Erbentraut.
Visitors to the "Reiseblätter" exhibition will experience a fascinating and always surprising variety of works by extraordinary artists.
