Rüstkammer: Morgenröte. Łukasz Huculak sees Jacob Böhme

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Morgenröte. Łukasz Huculak sees Jacob Böhme

Jacob Böhme (1575–1624), a shoemaker from Görlitz, is one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. His fundamental ideas have had a lasting influence on literature, philosophy, religion and art over the centuries. Leibniz and Goethe, Schelling, Hegel and Philipp Otto Runge all drew inspiration from him, as did contemporary artists – including Łukasz Huculak (*1977), Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, winner of numerous awards and represented with his works in public and private art collections in Poland and Germany.

Exhibition Site Residenzschloss

DATES 08/11/2024—16/03/2025

Opening Hours daily 10—18, Tuesday closed

Admission Fees normal 14 €, reduced 10,50 €, under 17 free, Groups (10 persons and more) 12,50 €

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Jacob Böhme was convinced that the world would change if people changed. Referring to the lily as a symbol of hope and renewal, he called the coming era of peace “The Time of the Lily”. His work is based on powerful images, metaphors, visions and models. He is credited with thinking in images, thinking in symbolic forms.

Łukasz Huculak has long been involved with the philosopher and reflects his world of thought in his artistic work. Böhme's first and most influential work from 1612 is entitled “Aurora oder die Morgenröte im Aufgang”. It is the starting point for an installation developed for the Studiolo in Dresden's Residenzschloss, in which Huculak questions Böhme's significance in the present day. Huculak's paintings are joined by “lectrical paintings” from the Physikalisches Kabinett at the Görlitzer Sammlungen. There is also an exciting dialogue with exhibits from the surrounding presentation “Kunstkammer. World view and knowledge around 1600."