After growing during the "Little Ice Age", they reached their last peak around 1850. Today their ice is rapidly disappearing. According to the measurements and forecasts of the Alpenverein, Austria could be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years.
In the photo exhibition it becomes clear that climate change has long since arrived – including here with us – and is extremely concrete. In unique image pairs, Jürgen Merz shows glaciers "before and after". Meticulously, he tracks down the locations of photographers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, where they found magnificent glacier landscapes at the time.
Decades later, Merz encounters completely changed landscapes at the same spots, from which the "eternal ice" has long since disappeared.