The convoluted, note-strewn, obscene, emotionally charged accumulation of divergent material in painting and drawing fascinated Walter Stöhrer, who was born in Stuttgart in 1937 and died in Scholderup in 2000, throughout his life. In this exhibition, we are showing large-format works on paper and canvas from three decades, all of exceptional quality, which have been generously made available to us by the estate.

One senses – and sees in every picture – the tremor of excitement, the spell of chaos that drove him, life, danger, lust and restraint. And one witnesses a beautiful paradox that emerges from this: the laconic, the simple, the self-contained nature of these pictures, which one can also sense.

The vital chaos matures into an image, and literature plays a key role in this because it has, as it were, already preformed the driving force of reality into a meaningful image, the realisation of which was found by Walter Stöhrer through errors and narratives.