Color worlds

Every picture is a color thought.” With this sentence, the painter and art theorist

Theo van Doesburg summarized the essence of non-representational art in 1930.

In the traditional understanding of painting, color has always been linked to objects, referring to things from the real world: grass is painted green, the sky in blue.

The art of the 20th century emancipated color from this representational function and focuses on its intrinsic value. Color no longer describes something that exists outside the picture, but it refers to itself. Which optical phenomena can be observed when color surfaces meet, what happens to colors when they overlap and what kind of effect do colors have?

Among others, this room brings together works by Camill Leberer, Fritz Winter and Helen Frankenthaler and allows us to explore these questions.