“Weschke can be seen as one of the last post-war British artists of any magnitude… His evocations of the immensity of nature, its raw power, can verge on the apocalyptic, he is good at identifying man’s fear of the landscape – of the unknown, or at any rate the little understood. He is painting what it feels like to be in the landscape, not some picturesque distanced vista of it. Honesty was important to him.”                        – Andrew Lambirth

This year is the centenary of the birth of Cornwall-based German painter Karl Weschke (1925 – 2005). To celebrate the event, there will be exhibitions at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin; Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, England; Stadtmuseum Gera, Germany.

Two new books on the artist will also be published to coincide with the exhibitions: Karl Weschke and Cornwall’s Lost Modernism by Matt Retallick and Karl Weschke: Painting order out of chaos by John Daly.