Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (Human, All Too Human)

14 September – 13 October 2013
Auf AEG, Nürnberg – WERKSCHAU / Halle 15

  • Werkshcau Director Bertram Schultze addresses the audience at the opening on Sat 14 Oct 2013.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • Visitors watch a documentary about Robert Lenkiewicz.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • View of the Werkschau/Halle 15 space.

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

  • Photograph of the Werkschau, courtesy of Auf AEG

This exhibition was first shown at the Spinnerei, Leipzig between 23 June – 21 July 2013.

Video
Exhibitions Officer John-Paul Somerville introduces the current exhibition in Nuremberg. Film by Jeremy Elman.

The first exhibition in Germany of paintings by British artist Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), organised by The Lenkiewicz Foundation, will move to Nuremberg’s Auf AEG on 14 September (until 13 October) from its acclaimed showing at The Spinnerei, Leipzig in June and July. The ten-year anniversary of the artist’s death was marked last year in the South West of England with a large-scale exhibition entitled Human, All Too Human and this show, in greatly expanded form, is travelling under its German title – Menschliches, Allzumenschliches.

"Much as Leipzig has created for itself a distinctive painting notoriety set apart from other traditional centres of German art such as Berlin and Cologne, so the painter Lenkiewicz created a unique and personal engagement with figurative realism in British painting. His paintings, like the contemporary Leipzig painters of today, are singular and distinct from the historical British art scene that still continues to be dominated by London." (Quote: Mark Gisbourne)

Reviews

Nürnberger Zeitung_ 130918_Ger-Eng.pdf (German newspaper article with English translation - 750kb)

OFFEN für Kitsch Auf AEG by Dr Harald Tesan (Open to Kitsch at AEG.pdf, Ger-Eng translation)

Kritik der Kritik – Francis Mallet erwidert eine Kritik von Dr. Harald Tesan. Curator Francis Mallett's reply to Dr Harald Tesan - text in English. (Or as PDF here).

Some of the Works shown at this exhibition

Belle Pecorini with rag doll Belle in the Kitchen. large canvas at Devonport Guildhall Plymouth Building its Future

Some of the Works shown at this exhibition

Belle Pecorini with rag doll Belle in the Kitchen.
large canvas at Devonport Guildhall Plymouth Building its Future

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