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Contemporary Photographic Art to Experience

Light Impressions - 01 Impressions

Let’s begin our tour with a tribute to an artist who is categorised as Post-Impressionist and is considered the founder of modern painting: Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890). His paintings - alongside those of other Impressionist painters – had always fascinated the artist. The artist must have remembered the Potato Eaters and the Station Waiting Room, as well as some other painting that he had attributed to Vincent van Gogh, when he was sitting with the landlord and a guest late at night in the Hotel Kasserolle in Siegburg.


Everything began with an art lesson at school and a painting that the artist found more than reprehensible at the time: Édouard Manet's Breakfast. Since then, he has loved the Impressionists and enjoys spending time at the Place du Tertre. Breakfast has become one of his favourite paintings.
The impressionism he created with light became a catchword for this museum.


It is not only the association with the pictures that makes the artist think of Vincent. Vincent is also the transition to modernity – and modern in the eyes of the artist is photography with the transformation of the image into a painting, which he may attribute to Impressionism or Post-Impressionism itself. These are pictures that go inwards and yet find their special expression from within.


The floor plan allows you to find your way through the exhibition and the museum by clicking on the individual elements.
Click on a single image on the exhibition walls below the floor plan to see it in full. Then move the mouse pointer to the sides of the fully displayed image to find arrows with which you can scroll to the next or previous image.


Floor Plan

05 Mesnil d'Amour - Espaces

You are here

02 Personality

Exhibition Room

Exhibition Room

Emergency Exit
Emergency Exit

04 Manarola

Thematic Area 03 Kentish Time - Preview: Sunset At The Medway

03 Kentish Time


Exhibition Wall 01




116: I. Lorenz; Estamos En Toledo; Toledo; 1996;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


301: I. Lorenz; Hotel Kasserolle; Siegburg, Worms; 2001;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


302: I. Lorenz; In The Hotel Kasserolle; Siegburg, Worms; 2001:
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


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329: I. Lorenz; Schwerin Castle; Schwerin; 2020;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


334: I. Lorenz; Hohensalzburg; Salzburg; 2023;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


338: J. M. Syarif; Hagia Sophia; Istanbul; 2024;
Potography de-familiarised as a painting

Many thanks to the photographer for the kind loan to the M&I Art Museum.
Courtesy of the photographer.


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304: I. Lorenz; View to the Jenner summit;
Berchtesgaden, Worms; 2004;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


325: I. Lorenz; Mosel Railway Bridge in Koblenz; Koblenz; 2017;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting


339: S. Newmarch;
The airfield is behind the strip with the trees;
Dortmund; 2022;
Potography de-familiarised as a painting

Many thanks to the photographer for the kind loan to the M&I Art Museum.
With the kind permission of the photographer.


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327: I. Lorenz; Angsa; Koblenz; 2017;
Photo collage de-familiarised as a painting


330: I. Lorenz; Spike; Bretten; 2021;
Photography de-familiarised as a painting

Many thanks to the Stadthotel Bretten for the permission to exhibit this picture.


337: I. Lorenz; Let me in; Berlin; 2024;
Potography de-familiarised as a painting



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310: I. Lorenz; Sunset; Sipplingen; 1992;
Painting de-familiarised


311: I. Lorenz; Mount Of Self-Esteem; Sipplingen; 1992;
Painting de-familiarised


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332: R. Lorenz; Do hogge die, die immer do hogge;
Eppelsheim; 2023;
Photography of a cracker barrel board

Many thanks to Robert, who is no longer with us, for this work of art, and many thanks to Petra Gries for her kind permission,
to exhibit it in this museum.


331: I. Lorenz; Santorini's Fire; Bretten; 2022;
Photography de-familiarised as a cyanotype


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