Feuerbachs Zimmer

Feuerbachs Zimmer was created in 1992 for a solo exhibition at Werkstatt und Galerie Wilfriede Maaß in Berlin. Three large-scale wall paintings combined painting and ceramics into spatial installations.

The starting points were Anselm Feuerbach’s Plato’s Symposium and drawings by William Blake. Figures, vessels, and ornamental forms were removed from their historical contexts and brought together within a new pictorial space.

The ceramics were not placed as objects in front of the paintings but became part of the composition itself. Painted and physical objects merged into a single spatial image. In 1992, Christoph Tannert described this relationship as a Raumbild—a spatial image in which the painted ceramic vessels continually shift the viewer’s perspective.

Thirty years later, one of the wall paintings was reconstructed for Zerbrechlich! Ton, Scheibe, Bild: Künstlerkeramik at the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst in Cottbus, bringing painting, ceramics, and space together once again.

Feuerbachs Zimmer
3 June – 4 July 1992
Werkstatt und Galerie Wilfriede Maaß, Berlin

Reconstruction, 2022
Zerbrechlich! Ton, Scheibe, Bild: Künstlerkeramik
12 March – 26 June 2022
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus

Presse
Christoph Tannert, “Der Künstler als fellow traveler“, Neue Keramik, 6/1992
Christoph Tannert, “Abgesang auf den gefrosteten Blick. Referenz: Klaus Killisch“, neue bildende kunst, Berlin, 6/1992, PDF