Friedrich Einhoff:: In the Collection of the Hamburg Kunsthalle

the long version

The catalogue presents the holdings of the Hamburg Kunsthalle?s collection of prints, comprising around seventy drawings and paintings works by Friedrich Einhoff (*1936) from the years 1981 to 2016. With it, the Kunsthalle pays tribute to the decades-long work of Einhoff, who has been formative for his home city both as an artist and as a teacher and mentor. In his oeuvre, traces of anonymous figures, torn body fragments, and facial contours oscillate between concentration and dissolution and tell us of a notion of man that has been subjected to constant transformation through material, sensory, and emotional processes. In the alienation, displacement, and inner turmoil, the figures search in isolated juxtaposition for their inviolable state of being.