The mathematics professor Wilhelm Kutta, who lived in Bruck, had a passion - painting.
On a large plot of land in the old Buchenau, he built a studio, a six-meter-high wooden building, in which he created paintings of huge dimensions.
That was 100 years ago, but the studio still exists and is still owned by artists.
Fürstenfeldbruck - Christiane Neuberger, her husband Peter and their sister Petra Bergner have now awakened the unusual location from their slumber for an exhibition. All three show their own works as well as pictures by Hildegard Mössel, Christiane Neuberger's mother and her sister.
She painted a lot under the skylights in the tall bare wooden building, not for fun, but to feed her war-disabled husband and four children.
Hildegard Mössel was doing so well as a portrait painter and graphic artist that the family of six managed to make ends meet.
Christiane Neuberger and Petra Bergner remember how they played and romped in the studio as children, how they whizzed across the wooden floor with roller skates and occasionally damaged one of the math professor's pictures that were still standing around.
Christmas 1944
Kutta died at Christmas 1944 and left the house and property of his partner, an opera singer. She, in turn, later bequeathed the property to a painter from Munich, who was quartered with her as a bombed out and was soon more than a subtenant. In the early 1950s, the Mössels bought the property from him. They were awarded the contract because they could pay the purchase price in cash, says Christiane Neuberger. "Shortly before, our father had inherited and sold a house in Franconia." The Munich painter urgently needed money, he was in trouble with the authorities and was about to move abroad. The studio no longer bears any traces of him, but Kutta's pictures are still there. The large-format nudes, portraits and landscape pictures in the current exhibition “My sister,my brother-in-law and I “put the top half of the walls in.
Another area is dedicated to Hildegard Mössel, the remaining space is shared by the sisters.
Landscapes are one of Petra Bergner's big themes.
That can be the local Amper region, but also Iceland, Ireland and the Sahara - the graphic artist and painter has gathered many impressions on her travels.
People and their sensitivities are also a frequent motif in the pictures of the 80-year-olds.
Painting has always helped her to deal with her own feelings.
Inward look
Christiane Neuberger is the exact opposite. “I don't like to expose myself so much,” says the 72-year-old, who, as an art teacher, brought generations of Bruck high school students closer to painting and drawing. Her portraits show people with a conspicuously inward-looking gaze; various drawings deal with the veiled and the hidden. Other favorite motifs are the Amper (“that's my river”) and the local region, such as the Haspelmoor. None of the pictures were taken in the old studio. It may have a special atmosphere - even a ZDF film with Hannelore Elsner was once shot here - but the unheated, uninsulated wooden building is extremely uncomfortable for working. On the west side you can look outside through cracks in the wall.
The charm of the location also includes the wonderful large property, designed by Peter Neuberger, who worked as a landscape architect until his 60th birthday and has since devoted himself to stone carving.
You can discover his sculptures on a walk through the garden between bushes and flowering plants, where they blend in almost organically.
The exhibition
“My sister, my brother-in-law and I” in Senserbergstrasse 23 will run until August 1st and is open on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.