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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2026 in the museum

25 YEARS BUCHHEIM MUSEUM
Retrospective and outlook for the anniversary
23 May – 11 October 2026

UPRISING OF COLOURS
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the Legacy of »Die Brücke«
23 May – 15 November 2026

IT PAINTED ITSELF OUT OF ME
Joachim Ringelnatz as a painter
25 July – 4 October 2026

BUCHHEIM'S HOUSE
Permanent exhibition: Reconstruction of Buchheim's villa in Feldafing

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