Figur - is the name of our exhibition with works by Horst Antes, Willi Baumeister, Karl Horst Hödicke, Karin Kneffel, Walter Stöhrer and Cornelius Völker.

From Aru by Willi Baumeister, the perfect synthesis of the concept jumps out: An abstract figure is initially a black surface - and with every glance its weighting shifts. Sometimes we think we are witnessing a pipe shaft test, then a face appears, an almost violent gestural movement, and suddenly the surface rests completely in itself. And it is in this emergence of constantly changing levels of meaning that the face of the exhibition is realised.

Horst Antes, who removed the human figure from his paintings in 1982, puts it quite simply: ‘The house is the figure.’ Walter Stöhrer's alphabet of figures, as he says, allows beauty to be convulsive. Karl Horst Hödicke's watchtower bathes the limited world of the two German states in the most beautiful, deep blue, pale, picturesque light. The gracefulness of the skirts and the poignant world of dogs bathed in colour give us a new perspective on Cornelius Völker's works of art, which have become images. And the artistic masterpiece of a heroic landscape, at the centre of which stands the animal, the chicken, in all its manifestations, shows us the art of Karin Kneffel at its highest level.