With this exhibition, the Leonhardi-Museum is once again devoting itself to its special "Drawing Art" section and at the same time continuing to weave the web of Dresden art connections: some of Kettner's students, such as Hanns Schimansky and Holger John, as well as successors to his professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, such as Elke Hopfe and Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler, have already been on show in our museum.
Dr Fröhlich-Schauseil spoke at the opening of the exhibition on Friday 30 November at 8pm.
"Regardless of what his work meant to the artist himself and how it was understood in the temporal context of the half-century from 1943 to 1992, Gerhard Kettner's drawings allow us to experience something of the uniqueness of the individual person and their perception. Right to the end [...] it is the bodies and faces of people that are of enduring interest both as an occasion for drawing and for contemplation in a double sense."
- ANKE FRÖHLICH-SCHAUSEIL -
Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil has written a detailed essay on the exhibition and compiled it and the accompanying catalogue together with Bernd Heise, with great help from Marlies Giebe. The exhibition also includes loans from the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art and private collections. Around 65 drawings from all phases of Kettner's oeuvre will be on display, as well as a number of sketches.
