An exhibition in the Lothar Fischer Museum brings Lothar Fischer’s “Enigma Variations” into a contrasting interplay with Ernst Barlach’s “Frieze der Listenenden” – an encounter that will probably never be seen again.
Here are eight slim, larger-than-life sculptures made of plaster and Styrofoam. There is a group of nine sculptures made of oak, each still impressive in size at just over a meter high. While some are seemingly archaic art figures that make the viewer ponder what they could represent, others already tell him what he sees through their titles: a dreaming woman, a believing man, a pilgrim. And yet each of these sacred prototypes hides its existential secret.