Exhibitions Archive
Fritz and Hermine Overbeck – Stages of Their Lives
Fritz and Hermine Overbeck have become known as a painter couple in Worpswede. But their life is marked by far more stations than just their stay at the village in the Teufelsmoor: In addition to their long-term center of life in the north of Bremen at Vegesack, their biography also encompasses trips to Sylt and Föhr, to Davos, to the Rhön, to Itzehoe and Aschersleben.
Their work is defined not only by North German landscapes with birches and moor canals, high skies, and wide horizons. Their oeuvre is also characterized by dunes and breaking waves, snow-capped mountains, city views, and glacial rock formations. The paintings and drawings by Fritz and Hermine Overbeck, as well as numerous extant letters, photographs, and documents, testify to the eventful life of the artist couple in many different places.
In a new compilation of their works, including many works rarely shown publicly, supplemented by letters and documents from the archive of the Overbeck Museum, a journey along the stations of their lives emerges – and thus at the same time a multifaceted picture of the lives and works of Fritz and Hermine Overbeck.
The exhibition marks the culmination of the couples’ 2019 anniversary, in which both – Fritz and Hermine Overbeck – celebrate their 150th birthday.
Das Overbeck-Museum wird gefördert von:
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