TEFAF Maastricht 2025

Between Red and Blue: A Modern Dialogue

The clash of strong red and blue has a stimulating, exciting and exciting effect for one simple reason: the strongest color contrasts meet in the red-blue tone. Red light has a stimulating and warming effect on the viewer, while blue light has a calming and cooling effect. Red stands for love and passion, while blue can be associated with infinity, calm and trust.

Colors have always played a central role in art, as they create emotions and moods within us, convey the messages of works of art, can strengthen or weaken them and significantly influence the visual perception of the viewer.

Expressionism, to which our gallery has dedicated itself for decades, thrives on the strong expression of color; the artists' association "Brücke" even made a heightened, high-contrast color scheme the central stylistic device of their art, thus shaping Modern art and subsequent generations. It is therefore worth focusing on the theme of color for this year's presentation at TEFAF Maastricht 2025. We have searched our collection for works in which the colors red and blue play an essential role, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, but always with a lot of expression, character and emotion.

At our stand 471 we are showing selected paintings and works on paper by Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Hans Purrmann, Christian Rohlfs and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.