The Caricatura Museum Frankfurt once again presents an exhibition that makes you laugh, but also makes you think with its cryptic humor. In "Hurzlmeier Malerei" the best and most comical works of the artist Rudi Hurzlmeier from the past 35 years are shown. A total of 100 works on canvas and paper are on view until April 18 - all works that appeared in the satirical magazine TITANIC.
The self-taught artist was given a permanent page for his cartoons at the freshly founded Munich city newspaper in 1980. For P.M. magazine, Hurzlmeier illustrated economic and espionage topics. He drew cartoons for magazines such as "Gong," "HörZu," "Stern" and "Bunte." His talent also caught the attention of Robert Gernhardt, who co-founded the satirical magazine TITANIC in 1979. Under the first application drawing that Hurzlmeier sent in, he remarked, "This cartoonist could fit in with us." He has been a permanent contributor to the satirical magazine since 1985. In his long career as a cartoonist and painter, Hurzlmeier has also contributed to "Penthouse Magazin," "Eulenspiegel," "Nebelspalter," "Die Zeit," "Stern," "FAZ Sonntagszeitung," "Spiegel online," "Die Presse/Wien" and "Süddeutsche Zeitung."
The exhibition at the Caricatura is oriented to the work categories that the painter himself has created - in reference to and as a satire on the old masters: for example, "Large Horse Paintings", "Modern High Mountain Painting", "Seestücke", "Black Painting" and "Images of Saints". On display are large-format acrylic paintings, but also a wide selection of cartoons, which complement the drawing work of the artist documented. There are various series to admire: For example, the "Regelvollzug watercolor painting course", in which Hurzlmeier earned as a course leader in prison, finds "From Gurlitt's bulky waste", and currently still every month in collaboration with colleagues Rattelschneck and Hauck & Bauer appearing the section "Here the viewer laughs". In addition, his treatise "On the Ridiculousness of Comic Drawings. A doctoral thesis - quasi" is presented, in which Hurzlmeier reflects on his own drawing richly illustrated equally scientific and highly comical.
A total of 13 sculptures by Rudi Hurzlmeier complete the show at the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt. Guests are greeted and bid farewell in the museum's display window by a (nearly) life-size sculptoon by Kassel-based sculptor Sigi Böttcher, who has transformed Rudi Hurzlmeier's poster motif "Selbst im Raumgleiter" into 3D.
You can still visit the exhibition worth seeing until April 18.
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11am-6pm, Mon closed
