As of: March 25, 2024, 5:13 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
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The artist Olaf Unverzart (2nd from right) with the gallery owners Stefan Vogdt and Felicitas Boos (left) and art historian Sonja Lechner.
© Galerie Stefan Vogdt
The Munich gallery Stefan Vogdt invited people to the vernissage.
You can see Olaf Unverzart's touching mountain pictures.
One is the fantastic photos.
The other is how they came to be.
One looks with awe at the works that can now be seen in Munich's Stefan Vogdt Gallery: one is in awe of the mighty stone formations - and of artist Olaf Unverzart, who captured them photographically from dizzying heights.
“'Great things happen when man and mountain meet,' the British poet, nature mystic and painter William Blake once said.
This sentence needs to be specified: 'Great things happen when Olaf Unverzart and Berg meet,'" said art historian Sonja Lechner at the opening of the new exhibition "Olaf Unverzart - sail on Sailor" in the Stefan Vogdt gallery at Munich's Hofgarten.
With the analogue large-format camera, Olaf Unverzart climbs up into the Alps, the Dolomites, and Mount Kilimanjaro - and returns with stirring images of the forces of nature.
Alpenglow in the Stefan Vogdt gallery in Munich - thanks to Olaf Unverzart.
© Galerie Stefan Vogdt
How wonderfully the Hörnligrat shines in the sunset in one of the photos - that is alpenglow at its finest.
Or Olaf Unverzart's photograph of the Matterhorn, taken at dusk after a climb from Zermatt: It also makes it immediately clear to lowland Tyroleans why this mountain was considered invincible until it was first climbed in 1865.
Olaf Unverzart's pictures are so moving because, on the one hand, they show how small humans are in relation to these friendly giants - and yet how they always leave such great damage behind, even in mighty rock formations.
Until April 25th, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Galeriestraße 2;
Monday to Friday 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.