SVEN DRÜHL
KÜNSTLER, SAMMLER, THEORETIKER. FASZINATION 19. JAHRHUNDERT

HANS ERNI MUSEUM, LUZERN, SWITZERLAND
21 NOVEMBER 2024 – 30 MARCH 2025

The Hans Erni Museum is presenting Switzerland's first institutional solo exhibition of the internationally renowned artist Sven Drühl from Berlin. The reason for presenting this contemporary position in the museum of the well-known Lucerne artist is that Drühl is just as versatile as Hans Erni: it is well known that Erni, who was interested in science and technology, music and literature, not only painted and drew and created sculptures, but also illustrated books and designed posters for a wide variety of occasions and purposes.In addition to his impressive paintings, Drühl also repeatedly wrote theoretical articles on art and published various issues of “Kunstforum International”. He also made a name for himself as a collector of 19th-century landscape paintings. Some of the paintings in his collection by Alexandre Calame, Edward Theodore Compton, Janus la Cour, Anton Edvard Kieldrup, Carl Milton Jensen, Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, Carl Spitzweg, and others served him as a starting point for his own works. The exhibition shows these different aspects of Drühl's work in dialog with selected works by Hans Erni.

© All images by Andri Stadler, Luzern

In cooperation with the Museum Wiesbaden/DE

FEATURED ARTIST

SVEN DRÜHL
Sven Drühl (b. 1968 in Nassau, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Fine Arts and mathematics at the University of Essen and completed a doctorate in art science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

By drawing on the artistic achievements of modernism and postmodernism, Drühl sees the opportunity to develop a new style, a new "metamodern" visual language. In his mostly serial paintings and sculptures, he always works conceptually, creating something innovative by reconstructing and evaluating what already exists. In doing so, he addresses a variety of topics, such as the transfer of cultural and media values, originality,...
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