In 1923 the young painter Franz Radziwill (1895-1983) made an unusual decision: having
recently enjoyed artistic success in cities including Bremen Hamburg and Berlin Radziwill
moved to the sedate little town of Dangast by the Wadden Sea where he was to live and work
for sixty years. At the same time Radziwill underwent a stylistic volte-face. He loosened his
ties with Expressionism in order over the course of just a few years to develop his version
of Magic Realism. The exhibition Alles auf Anfang! explores this spectacular sea change. Based
on a large range of works the catalogue traces this stylistic change illuminates Radziwill's
later view of his early work and examines the contextual aspects - What were the living
conditions that Radziwill encountered a century ago in Dangast? To what extent does his
relationship with nature and urban life reflect the artist's view of Modernism?
