When does the event take place?

The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 5 PM at the Erlangen City Museum.

How long will the exhibition NEWLY SEEN – Adolf Schinnerer be on display?

The exhibition is announced from October 25, 2026, to February 14, 2027.

What works will be shown?

A selection of paintings, drawings, illustrations, and print graphics will be presented, focusing on Schinnerer's Tennenlohe years. New acquisitions from the museum and loans from private family collections will also be featured.

Are there tours and workshops?

Yes. The accompanying program includes public tours, family tours, creative offers, and workshops for different age groups.

Is the exhibition accessible to people with disabilities?

For tours, assistance by sign language interpreters is possible with registration up to 14 days before the event. Additionally, a mobile FM system is available for visitors with hearing impairments.

What is the entrance fee?

No binding ticket price could be noted for the event. Individual accompanying offers of the exhibition have their own participation fees.

Rediscovering Adolf Schinnerer: Between Landscape, Line, and Mysterious Printmaking

Name: Exhibition: NEWLY SEEN – Adolf Schinnerer
Start: 2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Stadtmuseum Erlangen

Adolf Schinnerer seen anew: A distinctive chapter of Franconian modernism

The Erlangen City Museum is dedicating the exhibition NEWLY SEEN – Adolf Schinnerer to the painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and art writer Adolf Schinnerer on the occasion of his 150th birthday. The presentation focuses on an artist who was one of the significant creators in the Erlangen region around 1900, and whose work unfolds a remarkable independence between painting, drawing, and printmaking.

Landscape, figure, and the power of line

Schinnerer's paintings emerge from intense observation of nature. He found his motifs in the rural surroundings of Erlangen, in Tennenlohe and later in Ottershausen near Munich. Often, he concentrated on a few strong colors and developed a thrilling, distinctive visual language from them. Landscapes, depictions of people, and scenes of human life gain an immediately tangible presence.

Drypoint etching as artistic signature

Adolf Schinnerer achieved special mastery in drypoint etching. The worked plate leaves a vivid, rough line that gives expression and physical density to his landscapes and figure representations. His etching cycles combine precise observation with an idiosyncratic imagination. Alongside tranquil nature motifs, the audience also encounters dark, fairy-tale-like, and disturbing visual worlds.

Art historical classification and biographical traces

Born in 1876 in Schwarzenbach on the Saale, Schinnerer grew up in Erlangen and Neustadt an der Aisch. After studying in Munich and Karlsruhe, he worked as a freelance artist, later as a professor and head of a drawing and etching class at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909, he received the renowned Villa-Romana Prize. His artistic development took impulses from Impressionism but remained consciously detached from a clear assignment to Expressionism or Art Nouveau.

A reunion with rarely shown works

The curation focuses on Schinnerer's Tennenlohe years and presents a representative selection from his extensive oeuvre. Several new acquisitions of the City Museum as well as numerous loans from private family ownership are largely being shown in Erlangen for the first time. This creates an immediate artistic experience that connects biographical closeness, regional history, and art historical reassessment.

Cultural education and exhibition atmosphere

The exhibition creates space for concentrated analysis of the works and aesthetic experience. The interactions between painting, graphics, literature, and nature observation become visible. Accompanying tours, creative offers, and workshops deepen access to Schinnerer's visual worlds and make the exhibition accessible to families, school classes, and art-interested newcomers. Offers with sign language interpretation and a mobile FM system support inclusive mediation.

Conclusion: A discovery for art lovers

NEWLY SEEN – Adolf Schinnerer invites you to rediscover a regionally rooted and yet far-reaching art historical artist. Between color-intensive painting, expressive drypoint, and mysterious etching cycles unfolds an exhibition of great atmospheric density. Those who want to experience the connection between landscape, line, and inner imagination should definitely visit this art experience live at the Erlangen City Museum.