Schattenspringer

Schattenspringer

Variations of woodcut in the 20th and 21st centuries

01/09/—03/11/24

 

Arthur Ahnert, Gerhard Altenbourg, Grit Anton, Franca Bartholomäi, Andrzej Bobrowski, Peter August Böckstiegel, Marianne Britze, Jan Brokof, Gudrun Brüne, Hermann Bruse, Conrad Felixmüller, Petra Flemming, Helmut Gebhardt, Ryszard Gieryszewski, HAP Grieshaber, Klaus Hack, Sella Hasse, Eugen Hoffmann, Werner Hofmann, Christa Jahr, Hans Jüchser, Ingo Kirchner, Stefan Knechtel, Käthe Kollwitz, Thea Kowař, Rolf Kuhrt, Andrea Lange, Reinhold Langner, Maria Laufer-Herbst, Heide-Marlis Lautenschläger, Zbigniew Lutomski, Kurt Magritz, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Heinz-Detlev Moosdorf, Gerhard Kurt Müller, Franziska Neubert, Walek Neumann, Siegfried Otto-Hüttengrund, Lothar Rericha, Wilhelm Rudolph, Karin Sakrowski, Herbert Sandberg, Werner Schinko, Gustav Schmidt, Fritz Schulze, Helena Scigala, Erik Seidel, Herbert Seidel, Heinz Tetzner, Peter Thiele, Karl Völker, Christoph Voll, Hans-Georg Wagner, Christine Wahl, Susanne Werdin, Werner Wittig

 

 

The exhibition brings together woodcuts from the last hundred years from the BLMK collection as well as a few loans. The woodcut printing technique is part of relief printing. Knives and burins are driven into the wood, gouges are buried in the grain. Once the motif has been cut, the relief-like printing block is rolled with paint. The raised parts are printed.

 

The woodcut is part of Germany’s intangible cultural heritage because of its technical sophistication. The classic black and white printed from a printing block varies in color woodcuts to create a variety of color nuances. The exhibition also features color gradients of iris printing that merge into one another, white line cuts, filigree wood cuts or combination prints with linocut. The craftsmanship with which the finest lines are engraved into the wood can be admired, as can works roughly carved into the wood with modern technical equipment. The transitions to sculpture have long since become fragile. Independent sculptures can also be used as three-dimensional printing blocks.

 

A wide variety of motifs are shown: figurative works, portraits and intimate couple scenes, drawings of wars and crises, religious and mythological motifs, still lifes and interiors, cityscapes as well as abstractions and free form experiments. Stylistically, there are links to the elegant, flowing ornamental forms of Art Nouveau or the merciless distortions of expressionism. But the influences of Bauhaus and Constructivism can also be traced in the exhibition, as well as current positions in contemporary art.