175 years of art on the Trave - Part 2 of the Gothmund exhibition

175 years of art on the Trave - Part 2 of the Gothmund exhibition

Johann Wilhelm Corde's (1824 -1869) romantic Trave sketch from 1847 meets Heiko Jäckstein's (*1968) current work from the fishing village. The second part of the Gothmund exhibition can be seen in the Behnhaus Drägerhaus Lübeck museum from the end of August until December 30, 2023. Some key works from the first part of the exhibition remain. For example, the work "Village Idyll" by Ernst Eitner, the "Monet of the North", which shows the part of the fishing village that fell victim to a major fire in 1893. Gustav Wendling's "Nordic Fishing Village" (also called "Fishing Village Gothmund") from 1884 can still be viewed - but in a new context. This work now corresponds to Heiko Jäckstein's work "Gothmund 210 - Homage to Guschi" from 2022 and the resulting question of whether a fishing village remains a fishing village - after over 500 years of eventful village history - when the presumably last generation of those still active today two professional fishermen will end their working lives in the next few years? Another exhibition focus shows the expansion of industrialization, including a wonderful early work by the Gothmund-born artist Fritz Witt (1901 - 1994). His watercolor from 1981 deals with the Flender shipyard, a successful piece of Lübeck shipbuilding art. Meanwhile, Lübeck's industrial history - the end of the shipyard came in 2002.