Around 90 paintings and works on paper from the Willi Kemp collection, donated in 2011, are on show. It offers a comprehensive overview of Gaul's work from 1955 to 1997 and at the same time documents the close exchange between artist and collector.
Winfred Gaul (1928–2003) shaped German postwar art with his conception of non-objective painting as a liberating medium of new beginnings. Between openness and rigour, expression and sign, homeland and distance: each brushstroke opened up insights into colour, line, surface and their interplay. The twice-documented Documenta participant developed his work between the free gesture of Informel and the strict order of geometric forms.