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Nationalpark-Haus Neuwerk
Insel Neuwerk 6
27499 Hamburg-Insel Neuwerk

Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984) was an artistic multi-talent. Through his mother he found his love for music, an education as an organist followed. Early on, he himself taught young people music and art. After studying fine arts, he worked at a reform pedagogical school. At the end of the 1920s he studied and worked as an assistant teacher at the Bauhaus in Dessau. There he met Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, among others. Initially he returned to the reform pedagogical school until 1930, when he was appointed to the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg. There he taught a preliminary course on materials science.

The work of American photographer Thomas Brummett (b.1955 in Colorado) is akin to a spiritual quest. Brummett uses photography to explore how natural science and physics in particular can shed light on the true nature of the world. He searches for visual manifestations that reveal the complexity of natural systems. The series Light Projections and Infinities shown at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung are visual investigations of the multiplicity of infinite systems he has explored. All of Brummett’s work is drawn from his lifelong series Rethinking the Natural.