In cooperation with the Museum Wiesbaden/DE

Over the turn of the year, the Hans Erni Museum is presenting Switzerland's first institutional solo exhibition of the internationally renowned Berlin artist Sven Drühl (* 1968 Nassau/DE; lives and works in Berlin). The reason for presenting this contemporary position in the museum of the well-known Lucerne artist is that Drühl is just as versatile as Hans Erni: as is well known, Erni, who was interested in science and technology, music and literature, not only painted and drew and created sculptures, but also illustrated books and designed posters for a wide variety of occasions and purposes.

In addition to his impressive paintings, Drühl also repeatedly wrote theoretical articles on art and published various issues of "Kunstforum International". He also made a name for himself as a collector of 19th century landscape paintings. Some of the paintings in his collection by Alexandre Calame, Edward Theodore Compton, Janus la Cour, Anton Edvard Kieldrup, Carl Milton Jensen, Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, Carl Spitzweg and others served him as a starting point for his own works.

The exhibition shows these different aspects of Drühl's work in dialog with selected works by Hans Erni. It will subsequently be shown at the Museum Wiesbaden and then at the König Galerie Berlin. Parallel to the exhibition at the Hans Erni Museum, a show of the artist's latest works will be on display at Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, from February 15, 2025.

A catalog and a varied program of events will accompany the show.