Ströher Collection
Permanent exhibition
Raimund Girke
18 March until 26 June 2022
Current exhibitions
Raimund Girke - Sound of Silence Retrospective
18 March until 26 June 2022 Raimund Girke – Sound of SilenceRetrospective This year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the painter Raimund Girke. To commemorate the occasion, the MKM Museum Küppersmühle will honor the artist with a wide-ranging exhibition showcasing an oeuvre spanning nearly 50 years and underlining his significant contribution to German painting after 1945. Starting out exploring in gestural-informal abstraction, toward the end of the 1950s Raimund Girke moved on to develop nearly monochrome pictures. He narrowed down his palette to include only a few colors and handled them as apparitions of light, which he structured rhythmically in various ways, often to the extent of creating an optical irritation. Increasingly refining his brush stroke led Girke to finally abandon any form of painterly gesture in the 1960s. In applying an airbrush and using nearly exclusively white, he achieved an evenly homogenous distribution on the canvas.…
Ströher Collection
Highlights from the Ströher Collection, one of the most important and extensive collections of German art after 1945, are on display at the MKM on a good 5,000 square metres. The focus is on painting. The collection comprises central positions of art development in Germany, from the immediate post-war period to the present.
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