Würth Company
Museum Würth 2, Künzelsau
April 3 - September 3, 2023
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
Admission free
The internationally renowned British master of contemporary landscape painting is presenting his 90-meter long iPad frieze A Year in Normandie at Museum Würth 2 in Künzelsau, for the first time in a German museum. Via a composite of individual iPad paintings the artist reviews his immediate surroundings in the course of a year, adopting the format of the famous Bayeux Tapestry recounting the Battle of Hastings in 1066, which inspired Hockney to execute this continuum. He studied his environment painstakingly and in great detail, working outdoors with the aid of his iPad, using it to translate what he saw into an impressive, luminous record of the passing seasons.
A unique feature of this first-time showing of an iPad painting in these dimensions is the dialogue it encourages with Hockney works from the Würth Collection. Motifs from his time in Yorkshire, northern England, are juxtaposed with landscapes in northern France.
-Julia-Schambeck_res_wl2_frontpage_580.jpg "Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023 David Hockney Three Trees near Thixendale, Spring, 2008 Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12500 and A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021 Composite iPad painting (detail) 1 x 90,75 m © David Hockney Photo: Julia Schambeck München")
Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney Three Trees near Thixendale, Spring, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12500
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021 Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021, combined iPad drawing (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021, combined iPad drawing (detail), 1 x 90,75 m
Felled Trees on Woldgate, 2008, Oil on canvas, each 152,5 x 122 cm together: 152,5 x 244 cm framed, Würth Collection Inv.12129
Felled Totem II, 2009, Oil on canvas, Private Collection Switzerland
Felled Totem III, 2009, Oil on canvas, Private Collection Switzerland
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
Three Trees near Thixendale, Summer, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12501
Three Trees near Thixendale, Autumn, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12502
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
-Julia-Schambeck_res_wl2_frontpage_580.jpg "Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023 David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021 Composite iPad painting (detail) 1 x 90,75 m © David Hockney Photo: Julia Schambeck München")
Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021
Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
-Julia-Schambeck_res_wl2_frontpage_580.jpg "Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023 David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021 Composite iPad painting (detail) 1 x 90,75 m © David Hockney Photo: Julia Schambeck München")
Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021
Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
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Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney Three Trees near Thixendale, Spring, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12500
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021 Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021, combined iPad drawing (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021, combined iPad drawing (detail), 1 x 90,75 m
Felled Trees on Woldgate, 2008, Oil on canvas, each 152,5 x 122 cm together: 152,5 x 244 cm framed, Würth Collection Inv.12129
Felled Totem II, 2009, Oil on canvas, Private Collection Switzerland
Felled Totem III, 2009, Oil on canvas, Private Collection Switzerland
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney
Three Trees near Thixendale, Summer, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12501
Three Trees near Thixendale, Autumn, 2008
Oil on canvas, 183 x 488 cm, Würth Collection Inv.12502
© David Hockney
Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan
-Julia-Schambeck_res500v.jpg)
Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021
Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
-Julia-Schambeck_res500v.jpg)
Exhibition Insight into Museum Würth 2, 2023
David Hockney A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021
Composite iPad painting (detail)
1 x 90,75 m
© David Hockney
Photo: Julia Schambeck München
_res_wl2_frontpage_1440x545.jpg "Exhibition Insight Museum Würth 2 with David Hockney, A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021, combined iPad painting (detail), 1 x 90,75 m, Photo: Würth/Ufuk Arslan © David Hockney")
