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Leonhard Sandrock – German Impressionist and Industrial Painter
The German impressionist Leonhard Sandrock (1867-1945) is an insider tip. His extensive but largely unknown work testifies to a high level of painterly skill and displays a fascinating thematic variety. While Fritz Overbeck as a landscape painter dedicated himself to the pure depiction of nature, Leonhard Sandrock as a chronicler of a rapidly advancing industrialization painted ports and railway stations, steel mills, and industrial plants at the same time.
The Overbeck Museum dares to juxtapose the works of the two contemporaries: in a way, Overbeck’s storm clouds over the Teufelsmoor mirror Sandrock’s smoke oozing out of the funnels of steam locomotives. What the peat farmers in rural costume used to be for the Worpswede painters, the steelworkers involved in welding are for Sandrock.
These juxtapositions feature the contrastive development of art around 1900: on the one hand there is a nostalgic view that disregards the increasing mechanization of everyday life and highlights the yearning for nature, and on the other, there is a belief in progress and urban development, which construes the “brave new world” of technology as a subject that is on a par with nature. This exhibition is a cooperation with the KITO and the Heimatmuseum Schloss Schönebeck, where works by Leonhard Sandrock are also on display. It presents an unjustly forgotten German impressionist and at the same time paints a multifaceted picture of the period around 1900.
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