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Images of plants are more than just images of plants. Plants always reveal something about people, their desires and fears, and their attitudes toward life and world orders. This applies today as much as it did a century ago, when the artists of urban and technophile modernism took a fresh look at plants. What remains from this period are drawings of tropical indoor gardens, cacti captured on canvas, floral dresses in silver gelatin prints, and buds and sprays rendered in marble and bronze. To bring structure to this mass of images, this exhibition is divided into several chapters that propose various answers to the question: What do pictures tell us about the relationship between humans and plants? This relationship is particularly topical today due to the environmental crisis and the mass extinction of species.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Plant as the \u201cOther\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The song \u201cMy Little Green Cactus,\u201d by the Comedian Harmonists, extolled a plant that was extremely popular in the early twentieth century. The cactus was considered a \u201csymbol of the exotic, the anti-bourgeois, the notion of traveling around the world,\u201d as the 1925 book Die Sch\u00f6nheit unserer Kakteen <\/em>(The beauty of our cacti) states. Cacti did not become \u201cours\u201d until \u201ccactus hunters\u201d such as Curt Backeberg began digging them up in North and South America, disregarding their significance for Indigenous populations and the environmental conditions of their habitats. In Germany, they became the aesthetic and botanical \u201cother.\u201d Similar to rubber trees and monsteras, the distinct forms of cacti were valued; German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch even called them \u201cnatural sculpture.\u201d Meanwhile, the Botanical Central Department for the German Colonies in Berlin was researching how the plantation economy could be intensified with certain food crops. However, this background information remains \u201cout of focus and abstract,\u201d which is how Renger-Patzsch recommended photographing a cactus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Postcard from Cl\u00e4rchen to Antonie Christoph in G\u00f6rlitz, May 31, 1897<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cTropical Ballroom\u201d at the Flora, Cologne, 1928<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Otto Feldmann, Parc With Palm Tree and Man in Blue<\/em>, 1911\/1913. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/Z 02649<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Friedrich Seidenst\u00fccker, Coal Carrier<\/em><\/em>, 1930. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/F 1980\/0001 VI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Advertisment from Illustrirte Zeitung<\/em>, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gottheil & Sohn (Richard Theodor Gottheil & Albert Gottheil), Two Men Next to a Console With Plants, c. 1900. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, FH 09538<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Otto Dix, The Window<\/em><\/em>, 1923. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/Z 1950\/049<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Postcard, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Werner Sch\u00fckerk, The Time to Garden Has Come<\/em>, in Das Leben<\/em>, April 1933. SLUB Dresden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Courtyard<\/em><\/em>, 1922. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/Z 1978\/007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ludwig Ernst Ronig, Citizen<\/em><\/em>, c.<\/em> 1924. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/Z 1982\/004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Werner Mantz, Design Drawing for a Dining Room (Unknown Architect)<\/em>, 1929. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/F 1979\/1286<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Werner Mantz, Bedroom<\/em><\/em>, c. 1929. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/F 1979\/1306<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Werner Mantz, Study<\/em>, c. 1929\/30. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML\/F 1979\/1295<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Postcard, 1933<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Postcard from his parents and brother to Fritz K\u00fcfer for his 21st birthday, May 26, 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Anton R\u00e4derscheidt, Cactus Still Life<\/em><\/em>, 1925. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ML 76\/2377<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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