When can the exhibition be visited?

The exhibition is open on Sunday, November 22, 2026, from 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM. Additional visits are possible on Sundays or by appointment.

What is the admission fee?

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Where does From Children's Drawings to Image Space take place?

The exhibition takes place at the Christian Morgenstern House of the Christian Community, Friedländer Weg 9, 37085 Göttingen.

Who created the exhibited works?

Images by Stefanie Schäfer are shown, who has been accompanying children in Waldorf kindergartens for decades.

Are there tours or workshops?

The exhibition is accessible on Sundays at 11:15 AM and by appointment at 0551-58802. A separate tour or workshop program is not specified.

How long does the exhibition run?

The exhibition will be on view from September 13 to December 12, 2026.

Children's Drawing to Image Space

Name: From Children's Drawings to Image Space
Start: 2026-11-22T11:15:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-22T13:15:00+01:00
Location: Christian Morgenstern-Haus

When the first line becomes an independent image space

The exhibition From Children's Drawings 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 drawings: spontaneous lines, shapes, and color impulses transform into independent painterly image spaces.

Children's drawings as a source of artistic perception

Stefanie Schäfer has accompanied children in Waldorf kindergartens for decades. From this pedagogical experience arises a keen observation of children's images as windows into the developmental path of a person. The exhibition connects cultural education, painting, and aesthetic experience and makes visible how perception can directly transition into a visual form.

From spontaneous drawing to painterly condensation

In Schäfer's works, the original impulse of the children's drawing remains palpable, while lines, areas, and color tones enter into new compositional contexts. From houses, paths, figures, and free gestures, image spaces with their own tension, rhythm, and spatial effect are created. This examination of the work leads from the childish trace to conscious artistic design.

Between art education and modern visual language

Historically interesting is the transition from immediate gesture to condensed surface. The exhibition inquires where art begins and how a simple line changes through observation, processing, and painterly concentration. In this context, developmental observation, art mediation, and the elemental foundations of painting come together.

A calm exhibition atmosphere in Göttingen

The Christian Morgenstern House provides a quiet and focused framework for the images. The subdued exhibition atmosphere supports a decelerated examination of the works, in which colors, shapes, and materials unfold their effect step by step. The art experience is suitable for art enthusiasts, families, and anyone who wants to rediscover the origins of artistic design.

Conclusion: Experience the origin of seeing live

From Children's Drawings to Image Space offers a sensitive view of drawing, painting, and human development. Visitors can expect a visually rich, inspiring exhibition that bridges art education, cultural education, and aesthetic experience. Anyone who wants to experience how an independent image space emerges from the first line should definitely visit this special presentation at the Christian Morgenstern House live.