In honour of the artist's 100th birthday, curated by Kay Heymer (Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf)
Gerhard Hoehme would have been 100 years old this year. On this occasion Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is showing 'da war jemand', the second major exhibition in the gallery of works by the artist, who died in 1989. We are very pleased that we were able to win the distinguished Hoehme connoisseur Kay Heymer as curator for this exhibition. He heads the collection of modern art at the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, and is responsible for the catalogue raisonné of the artist‘s paintings and objects on behalf of the Gerhard and Margarete Hoehme Foundation.
Gerhard Hoehme was an artist who constantly searched and researched. For him it was all about finding new images and new statements in an existentialist way. He used as many formal means and materials as possible and revealed their particular expressive potential. For him, the picture was not a right-angled, limited object; it extended into space as well as into the world of thought. This is especially apparent in his ‚Fensterbilder' (window paintings) group of works, which are rebelling against the limits of the frame. For Gerhard Hoehme, language also became a material of his pictures, as he got to the bottom of the meaning of terms. For him language was a cosmos that oscillated between the scriptural gesture and the poetic openness of words. In many of his pictures, words, sometimes whole sentences, but also gestural calligraphy appear. His reverence for the poet Paul Celan, who was his age, and who, in theface of...