The exhibition "Unverklungen" at the Overbeck Museum honours the graphic designer and artist Jobst von Harsdorf, who taught at the University of the Arts Bremen from 1961-1989.
Press release of the Overbeck Museum:
Unverklungen - Jobst von Harsdorf on his 100th birthday
Jobst von Harsdorf (1924-2018) was many things at once: artist, lecturer and mentor, lithographer, draughtsman and painter, commercial graphic designer and professor of applied graphics at the University of the Arts in Bremen. His works, which he created with the lithographic stone, probably the heaviest artistic material, are characterised by a remarkable lightness. However, it was not only the visual arts that were close to his heart; music and literature, nature, architecture and travelling also provided him with constant inspiration for his diverse and multifaceted work, even into old age.
Jobst von Harsdorf would have been 100 years old this year. The Overbeck Museum is honouring the artist with an exhibition that brings together numerous works from different creative periods and in this way shows how his artistic work still resonates today.
Opening of the exhibition "Unverklungen"
on Sunday, 18 August 2024 at 11.30 am
Speaker: Dr Katja Pourshirazi, Director of the Overbeck Museum.
Musical accompaniment:
- Johanne von Harsdorf-Fürstenau, piano
- Anette Slaatto, viola Helge Slaatto, violin
Admission is free.
Guided tours
with museum director Katja Pourshirazi
- Sunday, 01 September at 11.30 a.m.
- Sunday, 29 September at 11.30 a.m.
Birthday party
Art talk with Dorothee von Harsdorf and Katja Pourshirazi
Wednesday, 16 October at 3.00 p.m.
10 euros
Guided tour with music
with museum director Katja Pourshirazi
Johanne von Harsdorf-Fürstenau, piano, and Annette Slaatto, viola
Sunday, 27 October at 3.00 p.m. (finissage)
Improvisations for the exhibition
Matinee concert with piano improvisations
to pictures by Jobst von Harsdorf
Effie Falkenroth, piano
Sunday, 22 September at 11.30 a.m.
Further information can be found here.