Since the opening of the Museum Franz Gertsch, the artist Franz Gertsch and his wife Maria Gertsch-Meer have successively incorporated all of his woodcuts up to 2013 into the collection. The museum is thus alone in possessing a complete set of this important part of Franz Gertsch's artistic production.
The exhibition "Cut in Wood – Franz Gertsch. The Donation" features woodcuts and paintings by Franz Gertsch dating from 1983 to 2014. The visitor will receive insights into around 30 years of his work as an artist and a substantial idea about the whole of his in part monumental woodcuts. The survey concludes with the new painting "Waldweg" [Forest Path] that takes up and interprets a familiar theme from his woodcuts. It concerns a Tuscan landscape interspersed with flickering light and sun spots that is closely related to the woodcut "Waldweg (Ausblick)" [Forest Path (Prospect)] (2006). This is not the only point where the close links between the artist's painted and printed oeuvre are made evident.
Along with the monumental woodcuts and selected paintings to be shown from September in the large exhibition spaces, the Print Room will be included in November. The small-format woodcuts find a fitting exhibition site here, rounding off the survey of the collection of woodcuts in the possession of the Museum Franz Gertsch.
The exhibition was curated by Anna Wesle in collaboration with the artist.
