A painter on a journey: Edwin Rosemann
Special exhibition, 15 July to 15 August 2021
The exhibition provides an insight into the artist’s legacy of Edwin Rosemann (1938–2015). The selected pieces focus on the artist’s travels and wanderlust.
Edwin Rosemann spent his childhood in Gdansk during the Second World War. In 1945, as a seven-year-old, he experienced the drastic expulsion from his homeland.
As a teenager in the early GDR, Edi began to devote himself autodidactically to painting. However, due to a lack of opportunities, his talent could not be nurtured either at that time or after he had fled to the West. Instead, he completed an apprenticeship as a flat painter in Hamburg.
Nevertheless, he continued to develop his skills as a fine art painter. It helped him to escape from everyday life and was characterised by the search for home and a growing wanderlust. In 1958, Edi decided to emigrate to Switzerland with his future wife Ingrid. Over the years, the Zurich Oberland became his chosen home. Many paintings show, true to detail and colourful, his love of nature and the landscapes through which he used to hike.
Nevertheless, he was always drawn to faraway places. From the mid-70s to the 80s, Edi spent several years in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Libya. In addition, there were a few trips to Africa and Asia as well as countless trips to Greece, Tuscany and the Baltic Sea. In Rosemann’s pictures, those landscapes seem more distant than ever, especially during the Corona pandemic. The exhibition is intended to send visitors on a mental journey – to remote places in the world or even to places that some people dream of.
Come along on a journey, escape from the here and now through these images and discover the creative change in style that once left an unexpected but lasting mark on the life of an artist on their paths.
