Jürgen Reipka and His Students

Contribution of August 29, 2024

Exhibition at the vicarage in Gempfing. Opening: June 8, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. Introduction: Wolfgang Herzer (Weiden). Musical accompaniment: Tea for Three.

For Beatriz von Eidlitz
„I saw a cage in flight. There were eagles inside.“

Two octagonal stars made of bamboo stalks, bearing eight sails from their circumferences to their centers, werde attached to a central axle. The star-wheels were so large, she couls stand inside them with her arms outstreched. The object was lifted up by the wind, and it began to rotate. I saw this double wheel of sails, carried upwards by big balloons, floating above the rooftops of Munich. It seemed as if the flying object – if it hadn´t been attached to the earth with a cable – would sail away on the wind, to the clouds, and of into the blue sky. The object itself was conceived as a cloud, to float up and away, where no one could ever bring it back down again.
Jürgen Reipka, May 1988, published in Beatriz von Eidlitz, Exhibition Catalogue, 1988

With works by: Elina Deberdeeva – Beatriz von Eidlitz – Ehrenfried Frank – Angelika Frommherz – Peter Gratzer-Schick – Anna Claudia Herberger – Wolfgang Herzer – Wolfgang Hingel – Manuela Hutschenreiter – Uwe Jonas – Bernhard Karlstetter – Margrit Keller – Winfried Keller – Susanne Koch – Stefan F. Konrad – Florentine Kotter – Marcela Krecova – Karin Krüger – Cornelia Langenmaier – Elvira Latenhammer – Monika Lensler-Aresin – Darko Lesjak – Michael Likan – Thomas Ludwig-Kelley – Tatjana Naaf von Sass – Bernd M. Nestler – Helmut Osterloher – Alexander Schidrich – Michael Schölß – Astrid Schröder – Hans Schüle – Alexander Schütz – Else Streifer-Schröck – Sabine Träxler – Heribert B. Wappmannsberger – Anthony Werner – Stefan Zeiler – Io Zeller-Klimm

Opening hours on the following Sundays: June 9 – June 16 – June 23 – June 30 – July 7 – July 14 – July 21 – July 28, 2024 from 2:00 to 5 p.m. Further information: www.gempfingerpfarrhof.de. Press reports Donauwörther Zeitung: Preliminary report (May 28, 2024); Vernissage June 8, 2024).

The following publication will appear in parallel: Erich Hofgärtner (ed.): Reipka und Schüler. Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Published by Dr. Rudolf Wittmann. Augsburg 2024. 132 pages, numerous mostly full-page color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-9806201-5-4.