From A for nude to Z for quotations, visitors can expect around 90 wonderful picture-text combinations and fascinating "light pictures", supplemented by special techniques.
Light is the most important thing for a photographer.
"I need the light - I make the colors myself," says Klaus Ender
In May 2026, the versatile artist would have celebrated his 60th professional anniversary. A special occasion for a special exhibition.
"Light & Poetry" shows a cross-section of Klaus Ender's extraordinary life's work. It includes pictures from the genres of nature, landscape and nudes, and wonderfully combines his brilliant photographs with his profound poems and powerful aphorisms. There are also pictures and quotations on the subject of the nude, which clearly show the discreet and sensitive approach of the aesthete - also with words.
Natural sensuality was what counted for him in nude photography. The fascination of the female body, without voyeurism and with poetic beauty, characterizes his pictures. In landscape photography, he was fascinated above all by the detail, the filigree of the grasses, the structures of the leaves, the colorfulness of the flowers. He loved the glitter on the sea, especially trees, which were friends to him, fog inspired him and, time and again, the light. Using long exposures, he makes trees "dance", backlighting makes the sun glisten, grazing light emphasizes the supposedly inconspicuous.
His poems reveal not only a great wisdom of life, but also his love of the German language. They tell of the many ways to make life more meaningful and do not shy away from critical topics. They often pay homage to nature. The thinker was particularly devoted to aphorism - rhetorically appealing and with philosophical meaning.
Whether nudes or landscapes - they are characterized by a high degree of sensitivity and great respect for nature.
