BURGDORF.- Lichtenstein and Warhol, Rothko, Richter and many others visit Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf – the Museum Franz Gertsch is realising a large-scale exhibition with a total of 69 top works by 30 artists from the collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, and other lenders. The works include paintings, works on paper, prints and photography. The exhibition takes place in all rooms of the museum with the exception of the Cabinet and allows visitors to view Franz Gertsch's work in the context of the art of his time.


A leading figure of photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (born 1930) has created monumental portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail over the course of a career spanning more than a half-century, which has proved of increasing influence upon subsequent generations.


Lichtenstein and Warhol, Rothko and Richter in Burgdorf – the Museum Franz Gertsch is putting on an expansive exhibition with 45 top pieces by 29 artists from the collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. The paintings, works on paper, prints, and photographs are on display in all the museum’s rooms, aside from the Cabinet.

This time, the museum is not showing Franz Gertsch’s work in separate rooms in a second exhibition. Instead, the Louisiana collection has been interspersed with 24 chosen paintings, woodcuts, and aquarelles by Gertsch, which have either never been presented in Burgdorf, or only rarely or a long time ago, thereby enabling viewers to see the house artist reflected in the art of his time. Movements such as Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Hard-Edge Painting, Shaped Canvas and Color Field Painting, as well as figures and landscapes in contemporary painting and photography, but also significant solo positions feature in this presentation.

The exhibition was curated by Anna Wesle and is accompanied by a comprehensive German and English catalogue with art historically informed contributions by several authors. The catalogue, published by Hatje Cantz, is now available in the shop. Visitors can also look forward to a diverse supporting and educational programme.

The represented artists in alphabetical order:

Josef Albers (1888–1976, DE), Mamma Andersson (*1962, SE), Per Bak Jensen (*1949, DK), Ross Bleckner (*1949, USA), Chuck Close (1940–2021, USA), Peter Doig (*1959, GB), Sam Francis (1923–1994, USA), Andreas Gursky (*1955, DE), Auguste Herbin (1882–1960, FR), Shara Hughes (*1981, USA), Asger Jorn (1914–1973, DK), Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003, AT), Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015, USA), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018, DK), Konrad Klapheck (1935–2023, DE), Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997, USA), Morris Louis (1912–1962, USA), Gerold Miller (*1961, DE), Sigmar Polke (1941–2010, DE), Jackson Pollock (1912–1956, USA), Gerhard Richter (*1932, DE), Mark Rothko (1903–1970, USA), Cindy Sherman (*1954, USA), Qiu Shihua (*1940, CN), Frank Stella (1936–2024, USA), Thomas Struth (*1954, DE), Victor Vasarely (1906–1997, FR), Andy Warhol (1928–1987, USA), Troels Wörsel (1950–2018, DK), and Franz Gertsch (1930–2022, CH).


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