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Schleswig (dpa) - The state museums Schloss Gottorf (Schleswig-Holstein) are dedicating themselves to the Berlin artist Christopher Lehmpfuhl from Sunday with a large-scale show.
The monographic retrospective, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, will for the first time
ever show the "best of" Lehmpfuhl's 25 years of creativity, announced the Museum of Art and Cultural History in Schleswig on Friday.
The large summer exhibition will show 154 works by Lehmpfuhl - from early works from his time at the Academy in Berlin, when he was a master student of Klaus Fußmann, to current paintings from the “Neue Heimat” cycle. This is his most personal cycle, said Lehmpfuhl on Friday. It differs noticeably - in black and white - from the other, colourful works, forms a kind of counterpoint.
In it, the artist processes the death of his parents, who died a few weeks apart in 2018.
The pictures were created in the studio, painted with a brush, using photographs of the father as a template.
This is an unusual approach for an artist who normally only paints outside with his bare hands using a lot of oil paint. Lehmpfuhl estimates that up to 40 kilograms of paint are used in some paintings.
These works will probably never dry out completely.
Painting with the hands and the generous application of paint creates works that appear almost three-dimensional.
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Other focal points of the show are landscape paintings, for example from the high Alps and the coast, as well as city views, including a multi-part, 14-meter-wide panorama of Berlin's Schlossplatz.
That Lehmpfuhl also masters the small format is shown, among other things, by works from his student days painted on small strips of canvas.
The show is rounded off by watercolors and prints from Lehmpfuhl.
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