HELMUT PFEUFFER: WOUNDED BEAUTY

26.07. – 16.11.2025

Helmut Pfeuffer (born 1933) makes visible a multi-layered reality in his paintings, where past, present, and future merge. In an art world dominated by Informel since the late 1940s, the painter has been steadfastly working for decades on his visual realities characterized by exaggerated colours and an expressive emphasis on the figurative. Pfeuffer's themes are landscape and figure, which for him form two sides of a coin in the sense of a holistic concept of nature. »The experience of nature condenses in Pfeuffer's painting into expressive landscape and figure images that symbolize a threatened world [...], for him, reality becomes an emotional allegory« (Mathias Arnold, 1988).

curated by Erich Schneider in cooperation with Helmut and Irmin Pfeuffer

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2025 in the museum

Ursula Jüngst: AUF(ER)STEHEN
05.04. – 13.07.2025

WITH A KEEN EYE & A SKILLED HAND. WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
05.04. – 29.06.2025

FROM MIND TO SOUL – GLASS
05.04. – 20.07.2025

Max Pechstein – Vision and Creation
19.07. – 26.10.2025

Ruprecht von Kaufmann: Life Between the Chairs
29.11.2025 – 15.03.2026

Africa & Oceania
Presentation of objects from the Buchheim Collection in the tower room on the 3rd floor of the Buchheim Museum

Helmut Pfeuffer: Frau im Sessel, 1975 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025