The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg Hosts the Museum Kunst der Westküste.
With an exclusive selection from its exquisite art collection, the MKdW invites visitors to set sail on a visual voyage along the west coasts of Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Their journey’s port of destination is the beautiful island of Föhr in the midst of the UNESCO world heritage site of the Wadden Sea.
In their paintings and oil studies, the artists – including the famous Skagen painters Anna and Michael Ancher, Peder Severin Krøyer and Laurits Tuxen – recount the dangers of the high seas, but they also describe places on the beach and in the dunes where the “blue hour” can be enjoyed in the summertime. Norwegian artists like Kitty Kielland and Christian Krohg, by contrast, carry viewers off to the rugged coastal regions of the north. Along the Dutch coast, artists depict the activities pursued by fishermen and their families.
The exhibition is distinguished by the interplay of historical and contemporary art: Trine Søndergaard’s and Corina Gertz’s photographs as well as Volker Tiemanns’ sculpture The Wave enrich the dialogue on “Sea & Coast”through socially relevant current issues. Jochen Hein’s epoch-making triptych North Sea mesmerises viewers with its untameable elemental force.
Fig: Jochen Hein, Nordsee, 2003, © Museum Kunst der Westküste
