The Mood Room · Anton Kerschbaumer
Anton Kerschbaumer Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Anton Kerschbaumer
The light of Rosenheim and Berlin Anton Kerschbaumer began his training at the School of Applied Arts in Munich, studying under Maximilian Dasio and Julius Exter between 1901 and 1908. His early years were shaped by the technical discipline of drawing, a skill that led him to pass exams as a teacher. By 1908, he had moved to Berlin, where his path crossed with Lovis Corinth. This period in the city brought him into contact with new way
s of seeing. He looked closely at the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse. While these Post-Impressionist painters left their mark on his eye, he eventually moved away from the Impressionist style. His life was marked by movement between quiet landscapes and the intensity of wartime service. During the First World War, he served in Erich Heckel's volunteer ambulance train in Ostend, Flanders. Working alongside o…
Set the room's
mood
— the light follows
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works lit