Pictures by Otto Sander Tischbein (OST)
About BEING on the road: Pictures by Otto Sander Tischbein from Neuenhagen near Altenhagen, near Tützpatz, near Krusemarkshagen, near Pripsleben, near Thalberg, near Altentreptow, and: near Stavenhagen
"The roads are perfectly paved, and from the gates of the city there are direct highways to Hamburg, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg." Fritz Reuter. A sentence that leads out of the provinces. Who wouldn't want to take these roads of freedom, of being unbound? At all times, people have been drawn to faraway places - only to return in the end, most of the time.
I have seen all these places and many more. With the eyes of a painter, I followed in the footsteps of my colleague, the Goethe painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Always striving to capture on canvas what I had seen and experienced. The endless stream of people from all over the world that passed me by. In the early 2000s, I created a series of paintings in a wide variety of formats, probably around 100 panels. And the work is still going on. Admittedly in a different form.
Pictures of BEING on the road. Away from home, and on those same roads, richly rewarded back home. To a small, very familiar town or village, if that's what it is.
Michel de Montaigne, a French essayist from the 16th century, born in the village of Montaigne near Bordeaux, wrote - and this is where WE meet - "I do not love being, I love being on the road." I think Fritz Reuter would have signed this sentence without any ifs or buts. There is more to these few words than you might initially think.
So let's go...
The vernissage will take place on August 24 at 3 p.m. in the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum. The exhibition can be viewed until January 25, 2025.
