From Children's Drawing to Image Space: Experience Art and Perception in Göttingen
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When the first line becomes an independent image space
The exhibition From Children's Drawing to Image Space presents images by Stefanie Schäfer at the Christian Morgenstern House in Göttingen. The focus is on the creative power of children's drawing: spontaneous lines, shapes, and color impulses appear not merely as documents of child development but as starting points for an independent painterly engagement.
Children's drawings as a source of artistic imagination
Stefanie Schäfer has been accompanying children in Waldorf kindergartens for decades. From this pedagogical experience grows a keen eye for the original gesture of children's drawing. For the artist, children's images open access to the paths of human development and make visible that immediate perception from which artistic creation can arise.
From spontaneous trace to painting
With sensitivity, Schäfer transforms children's drawings into small artworks. From houses, paths, figures, and free lines, independent compositions develop, in which surface, color, rhythm, and spatial effects are newly arranged. The works preserve the directness of the childlike visual language and lead it into poetic image spaces.
Work observation between art education and modernity
The exhibition combines painting, art mediation, and cultural education. Its concentrated work observation reminds us that art does not begin only in the finished masterpiece but already in the first conscious trace. Art historically, the free formal language touches on questions of expressive abstraction and the modern search for an elemental visual language, without reducing children's drawing to an art historical model.
A quiet exhibition atmosphere in Göttingen
The Christian Morgenstern House offers the images a restrained framework. In the relaxed exhibition atmosphere, colors, shapes, materials, and painterly concentrations gradually emerge. Visitors experience a slowed-down art experience that takes the aesthetic experience as seriously as the pedagogical question of the origin of the image.
Visiting and opening hours
The exhibition is open from September 13 to December 12, 2026, on Sundays at 11:15 AM and by appointment. Admission is free. The date on November 15, 2026, invites focused work observation from 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM.
Conclusion: Experience the origin of the image live
From Children's Drawing to Image Space opens a sensitive and inspiring encounter with drawing, painting, perception, and human development. Art enthusiasts, families, and friends of cultural education discover an exhibition that makes the creative value of the first line visible. This special art experience at the Christian Morgenstern House should definitely be experienced on-site.
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