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    Carl Piepho, Am Wehr (At the Weir), c. 1903/04
    Public domain. Private collection. Photo: Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf

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    Am Wehr

    Carl Piepho painted it around 1903/04. It probably depicts his wife Barbara. Within four years, the picture travelled from Munich to Barcelona.

    1. 1904 Munich
    2. 1905 Venice
    3. 1907 Barcelona

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    At the conservation centre

    In autumn 2026 the painting was examined at the Restaurierungszentrum, the conservation centre of the city of Düsseldorf. Painting and frame are in stable condition. Piepho painted in oil on canvas, 78 × 62.5 cm: thinly in the dark passages, but with impasto and visible brushwork in the dress and the water. An orange-yellow layer follows the motifs and, in the dress, the waterfall and the houses, acts like a glaze that deliberately modulates the yellows and whites. Whether it is by Piepho’s own hand or an aged varnish cannot yet be said for certain.

    Am Wehr at the Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf, 2026: unframed on the copy-stand wall, framed on the copy-stand wall and on the work table
    Public domain. Private collection. Photos: Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf (unframed), private

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    Exhibition, Düsseldorf

    Jörg Immendorff

    The first comprehensive retrospective in Düsseldorf, the city where he studied and taught: around 120 works from five decades.

    Kunstpalast, Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 10, 2027

    Black-and-white photo: Jörg Immendorff in a cap and leather jacket stands in front of a brick wall, holding a long-haired rabbit in his arms.
    John McIver, portrait of Jörg Immendorff in Auckland, New Zealand, 1987, Atelier Immendorff. Photo: E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tōmaki, © John McIver, © Nachlass Jörg Immendorff
    Painting: in front of a bar with the sign “Zum Immendorff”, five men sit at green tables, a fire burning on one of them. In the foreground, a woman with a blond braid seen from behind and a pig lying on the floor.
    Jörg Immendorff, Café, 1990, oil on canvas, 140 × 160 cm, Sammlung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf im Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Photo: Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf – LVR-ZMB – Stefan Arendt, © Nachlass Jörg Immendorff

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    Artist portraits

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    Painting: view into a large coffee house with a red carpet, columns and chandeliers; on the left ladies in feathered hats at tables and a waiter, on the right a gentleman in tails reading a newspaper at a marble table; in the background crowded tables in warm light. Monogram and date 13. II. 00 lower right.

    Wilhelm Schreuer, Im Café Cornelius (At the Café Cornelius), 13 February 1900, oil on board, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, B 1254 · Public domain. Photo: Jula2812, Wikimedia Commons

    New portrait · November 12

    Wilhelm Schreuer

    He never drew from life. Whatever Wilhelm Schreuer saw on the parade ground, in a café or in the street he kept in his head and painted at home, in three or four days, on a wet, tonal ground.

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    Land Art

    Art made in the landscape itself, often far from museums and on a vast scale. The movement emerged in the USA in the late 1960s. The best-known work is Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” of 1970, a spiral of rock and earth in the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

    Mixed technique · Papier collé · Pettenkofer process

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