Science and Arts

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Impressionism in Holland and the Weather in the  "Hague School"
Contribution on the occasion of the exhibition "Clouds and Light. Impressionism in Holland", Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 8 July - 22 October 202
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Sky's Adornments and Everyday Clouds: Aernout Smit and Abraham Storck
On Clouds in Dutch Marine Painting

What Kind of Sky is This?
Meteorological Associations to „Impressionism. The Art of the Landscape“; Museum Barberini Potsdam, 23. 01. 2017 - 28. 05. 2017

The Little Ice Age 2001/2002
Climate, Weather, and Geology in Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century
    - The Origin of Landscape
     - The Uncomplete Sky

The Urge for Realism. Meteorology in Dutch Landscape Painting in the 17th Century
from the exhibition catalogue" "The Sky so Wide" ;
Museum Schloss Moyland, 18.5.-24.08.2014

Mapping Spaces (German only)
German version, slightly revised, of a contribution to the exhibition catalogue "Mapping Spaces" at the ZKM|Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, 12.04. - 13.07.2014

Paintings as Climate Archives?
Do paintings provide us with climate proxy data?
from" GFZ-Journal System Erde" Nr. 1/2012

Haarlem's Crown of Clouds
Meteorology in J.v. Ruisdael's 'Haarlempjes', Bundeskunsthalle 2002

Contrived Reality
Weather and Geology in J.v. Ruisdael's 'View of Ootmarsum'
A contribution to the "Summer of Science" and ESOF, Munich 2006

An Ordinary Sky by an Extraordinary Painter
Jan van Goyen, "On the Dune", 1642, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 2008

Hendrick Avercamp: Enjyoing the Ice
Symposium “IJspret - De winters van Hendrick Avercamp”,
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 14-01-2010

Joos de Momper's Clouds, Sky,
and Atmospheric Optics
1998

Goethe and the Clouds

On Goethe's 250th Birthday, Castle Charlottenburg 1999

Comment on John Walsh:
"Skies and Reality in Dutch Landscape "(1991)

Potsdam 2013


Selected Paintings:

Jacob van Ruisdael's 'Thunderstorm Brewing' , Alte Pinakothek, Munich 2007

Jacob van Ruisdael's 'Dune Landscape with Donkey Driver' , MdbK Leipzig 2008

L. Backhuysen: 'At the Harbour of Amsterdam' , Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M. 2007

Other Contributions:

The Colours of the Skies of Impressionism - The Re-Discovery of Meteorology and Colour in the 19th Century   
    FU Berlin, GasthörerCard-Programm ART, winter semester 2024/25

Science as "Useful Arts": Climate in Painting     
    FU Berlin, GasthörerCard-Programm ART, Summer semester 2024

The Upcoming Revolution - Arts in Climate Crisis
   For the Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Lyrik, Leipzig , 2023

La rivoluzione che verrà - L'arte nella crisi climatica bandiera italiana
  
per la Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Lyrik, Lipsia , 2023

Baroque Clouds
   A Meteorological Walk through the Charlottenburg Palace Park, Berlin, 2000
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