26 enero 2008 – 20 abril 2008

ice Crystals and miraculous plants - photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and Alfred Ehrhardt

An exhibition organized by the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation and the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation for Photography and Science of Art.

In German the patterns made by frost on windows are called Eisblumen (ice flowers). They are ice crystals with forms that resemble flowers. These forms take shape on the interior of thin windowpanes when the external temperature sinks below zero, when the humidity of the air inside is high, and when spores for crystallization are present, such as little particles of dust, around which the freezing water can crystallize. These so-called “ice flowers” have become a rare phenomenon in our latitude given the warming of the earth and the increasing use of windows with multiple glass layers in the renovation of old buildings.

dirección

Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung
Schönhauser Strasse 8
50968 Köln
fon +49 221 398 07 14
http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de

horarios

Tuesday-Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., closed on Monday.

opened 2003; architects: Thomas Zander and Norbert Moos.

en el período de 10 dias
comienzo de exposiciones
finalizacion de exposiciones