Die Topoi

Caspar David Friedrich broke new ground as a landscape painter, characterized by a striking emptiness of pictorial space and a high degree of emotionality. From today, three works by Thomas Ruff from the Hoffmann Collection are on display in the Friedrich Room in the Albertinum. Ruff distances himself from traditional landscape painting by using images whose technical and scientific origins make up a large part of their effect. In them, worlds appear that are not accessible to the human eye: Stars in the cosmos, the surface of Mars or an atomic bomb explosion.