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From 11 September 2025, the Haus am Lützowplatz will present the exhibition HERBST by the painter Ruprecht von Kaufmann. The show features new works as well as selected earlier pieces by the artist, addressing the themes of transience, change, and inner reflection. With a distinctive figurative style and multi-layered colour compositions, von Kaufmann invites the audience to immerse themselves in an atmospherically dense pictorial world.
In this project, the artist links current social and political developments with those of the Weimar Republic around one hundred years ago. The parallels are numerous and often unsettling: in the 1920s, dissatisfaction with the political system grew, economic upheavals led to ideological radicalisation, hatred, and the persecution of dissenters.
Today, we are once again experiencing a period of profound upheaval—marked by an unending series of crises at the end of the fossil-fuel industrial age. Once again, democracy seems under threat: through the rise of right-wing populist forces and the growing danger of war in Europe. Against this …
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Image above: Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Party – Triptychon, 2025, Öl, Collage (Mylar) und Draht auf Linoleum / oil, collage (Mylar) and wire on linoleum, 182 x 405 cm, Copyright the artist.
