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Stadttheater Fürth, built by the architects Fellner and Helmer 1901/1902. © John Hammond

Reinhard Schlüter & Heinz Thurn

TRAUMPFADE + ZEITENLÄUFE

DREAM PATHS + THE COURSE OF TIME

Stadttheater Fürth

Königstr. 116, 90762 Fürth, Germany

20.03. - 03.05.2022

Vernissage: Sunday 20.03.2022

Virtual Tour

Artworks

Reinhard Schlüter

Nr.	Titel	Technik	Maße H x B in cm	Preise in €
	Foyer
69	Me and my World, die Welt des Donald Trump;	Acryl, Lwd	70x50	785
70	Setter mit abgeknabbertem Coronavirus (nach Albrecht Dürer)	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	70x50	900
71	Banker's War Room	Acryl, Lwd	60x80	800
72	Ente in der Pose von Coco Chanel	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	60x40	540
73	Renaissance-Gans (nach Raffael)	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	60x40	600
74	20er Jahre 2.0 – Opernball	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	60x120	1.200
75	Bistrot - Begegnung durch Zeit und Raum	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	70 x 100	1.140
76	Gans mit Tennisball (nach Leonardo da V.)	Acryl, Lwd	60x40	600
77	Die Ente mit dem Fisch (nach Leonardo da V.)	Acryl, Lwd	60x40	640
78	Metamorphose des Federico da Montefeltro	Acryl, Lwd	50x40	400
79	Metamorphose der Battista Sforza	Acryl, Lwd	50x40	400
80	Die Gans in Gold (nach Gustav Klimt)	Acryl, Lwd	60x40	640
81	Gans in der Pose der Kaiserin Sissi	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	60x40	540
82	Metamorphose des Franziskus	Acryl, Lwd	100x80	1.000
83	Deutschland im April 2020 (#KunstvsCorona)	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	50x40	640
84	Sasha 3	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	60x40	400
85	Das Lämmlein mit der Perle (nach Vermeer)	Acryl, Lwd	50x40	640
86	Choupette und die Metamorphose ihres Herrchens	Acryl, Lwd	70x50	800
87	Metamorphose der Anna Wintour	Acryl, Lwd	70x50	540

	2. Rang links
88	Perspektivwechsel	Acryl, Lwd	70x120	640
89	Die Unterweisung (frei nach François Clouet)	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	80x100	1.200
90	Wolfsdämmerung	Öl, Acryl, Lwd	70x100	1.000

Irrtum vorbehalten.

Artist Profile

Reinhard Schlüter

Reinhard Schlüter's passion for writing, drawing and painting began in early childhood and continued all through his life. While working as a construction engineer he published more than 1500 cartoons in newspapers and magazines. In the 1990s he gave up his career as an engineer and started professional writing (primarily books and radio broadcasts, e.g. for the "Bayerischer Rundfunk", the Bavarian Broadcast ) and 15 years later professional painting - the latter by specializing in Old masters' style. The central themes inhis artistic work are portraits and "animal metamorphoses”. Reinhard Schlüter lives and works in Fürth (Bavaria).

Artworks

Heinz Thurn

Nr.	Titel	Technik	Maße H x B in cm	Preise in €
	Foyer
51	Schöne Zeiten	Holzschnitt	56 x 78.5	2.800
52	Tryptichon	Collage	27 x 81	1.800
53	Die Diskussion	Holzschnitt handkoloriert	22 x 14.5	680
54	Machen wir´s jetzt in der Nacht oder erst am Tag	Holzschnitt	29.5 x 42	1.800
55	Venus und der Schwan	Holzschnitt handkoloriert	22 x 14.5	680
56	Der Augenblick	Holzschnitt handkoloriert	22 x 14.5	680
57	Evolution	Acryl	30 x 24	1.200
58	Blitz und Donner	Holzschnitt handkoloriert	22 x 14.5	680
59	Geburt eines Planeten	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
60	Die Bootsfahrt	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
61	Australische Vision	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
62	Skandinavische Vision	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
63	Die Überfahrt	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 111	8.800
64	Schottische Vision	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
65	Traum des Wolfes	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
66	Ein Fisch hängt im Bogen	Holzschnitt	56 x 78.5	2.800

	2. Rang rechts
67	Erdschnitt	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800
68	Raumschiff	Holzschnitt	78.5 x 56	2.800

Irrtum vorbehalten. Rahmenpreise auf Anfrage.

Artist Profile

Heinz Thurn

After training as a book printer, Heinz Thurn initially studied graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1970 to 1976, but then turned to painting, with which he combines a more exciting process of dealing with the work. Among the eighty five percent of artists (not just visual artists) who feed on a different profession are the courses for high school students in various printing techniques Thurn's “bread and butter”. Heinz Thurn lives and works in Nuremberg.

Press

Fürther Nachrichten, 29.03.2022, SIGRUN ARENZ

Pushing the Boundaries of Reality

Heinz Thurn's story-rich dream worlds and Reinhard Schlüter's fabulous animal portraits harmonise in the theatre.

Unconventional visual language: Heinz Thurn combines animal-like beings with the four elements. Photo: Hans-Joachim Winckler

FÜRTH - One of the first things that catches the eye about Heinz Thurn's work is its colourfulness. In the case of Reinhard Schlueter, whose pictures hang on the other side of the foyer in the Stadttheater, it is the animals in human clothing - especially those whose iconic human models can be identified at a glance.

"Dream paths and the course of time" is the title of the exhibition by the two Franconian artists that John Hammond's Fürther Art-Agency has been presenting in the Stadttheater for a few days. Author Herbert Mundschau, who held the laudatory speech, describes Thurn's pictures as "shaking the limits of reality". He deals with the four elements fire, earth, air and water, but always lets them merge strangely.

Play with the unexpected

The spaceship on one of the works is reminiscent of a jellyfish swimming in the blue sea, followed by tadpole-like creatures. The pictures radiate something primary, naive, without being naive; they play with snake-like skinny people, incorporate elements of African art, combine the normal with the unexpected. Thurn's dream worlds are plump, colourful, gloomy and seductive.

"Idiosyncratic Satires" are Reinhard Schlueter's paintings. The civil engineer, born in 1948, who was married to the Austrian Maresy, whose work is currently the focus of a new project in the Auferstehungskirche about (largely forgotten) female artists in Fürth, is an author and painter who, among other things, worked for the Bavarian Radio and drew cartoons . In the pictures of his current exhibition, artistic citation and alienation enter into a connection.

Pope Francis, for example, is sitting on the Chair of Peter, annoyed or tired, one does not know exactly, he has his head propped up on the side - only it is an owl that can be seen there in white regalia. Albrecht Dürer is shown in his famous self-portrait; however, his long hair is the ears of the Irish setter who portrays him, and as Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" a lamb gazes thoughtfully into the distance.

Poster world

Animals in human clothes and poses: What is an almost shameful anthropomorphization on kitschy "art" prints or in YouTube cat videos, which degrades humans and animals alike, works with Reinhard Schlueter more in the sense of the fable, which is actually not from animals, but rather exaggerates human characteristics.

His satire always remains "fair", as laudator Mundschau emphasizes, even with a subject like Donald Trump, who presents his striking world in a picture with hair blown by the wind - including a Donald Duck figure and a gun.

P R I V A T E C O L L E C T I O N

The Hammond Collection evolved through purchasing works of art and gifts from artists exhibited by curators John and Renate Hammond over the last four decades, running their Galerie am Theater (1979 – 1992) and Art-Agency Hammond (since 1993).

The collection contains 650 works of art, of which over 400 are by Renate Hammond who is a graduate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.