When does the exhibition take place?

The exhibition runs from July 7, 2026, to September 27, 2026, at the Diocesan Museum Freising.

How much is the entry fee?

The exhibition is free of charge.

Where is the museum located?

The Diocesan Museum Freising is located at Domberg 21, 85354 Freising.

Is the museum accessible?

Yes, the exhibition is reportedly barrier-free accessible according to event information.

Is there a supporting program?

A richly illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition. Additionally, the museum offers a media guide and other educational offerings.

What are the opening hours?

The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 AM to 5 PM, closed on Mondays.

Color, Memory, and Light: Ruth Kohler Transforms Freising into a Poetic Art Experience

Name: A Life in Colors – Ruth Kohler at the Diocesan Museum Freising
Start: 2026-07-07T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-27T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Diözesanmuseum Freising

An art experience full of color, memory, and light

At the Diocesan Museum Freising, the exhibition A Life in Colors provides a glimpse into the work of painter Ruth Kohler. From July 7 to September 27, 2026, the focus is on the force that has shaped her painting for decades: color as an independent language, as a bearer of hope, tenderness, fear, and sadness.

Color as an image idea and emotional energy

Ruth Kohler, born in 1929 in Fürth, grew up in a musically inclined household and studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a master student of Franz Nagel. Early on, she connected painting with sacred image spaces, creating frescoes, stained glass windows, and paintings for churches. In Freising, this artistic attitude unfolds in an exhibition that puts the color itself in the foreground, rather than the subject.

From South Africa to Münsing: Paths of an unconventional painting

A stay in South Africa in 1960 brought new light and color experiences into her oeuvre. Later, she increasingly turned to the people in her surroundings in Germany and during many stays in the USA, before she decisively turned to expressive abstraction in the mid-1980s. Her non-representational works engage with color bodies, swirls, and layers that arise from memory and intuition, allowing for an intensive examination of the work.

Exhibition atmosphere at the Diocesan Museum Freising

The Diocesan Museum itself offers a fitting setting: a house with a broad art-historical spectrum, barrier-free accessible, with a museum café, museum shop, and media guide. Those who visit the exhibition experience not just a presentation of individual images, but an art experience that makes color palpable as space, rhythm, and mood. The richly illustrated catalog additionally accompanies the exhibition and deepens cultural education around the work, biography, and context.

Why a visit is worthwhile

A Life in Colors connects art history, personal memory, and sensory immediacy. The exhibition invites visitors to experience abstract painting not as distance but as closeness: as an invitation to engage with luminosity, density, and subtle tones. Anyone visiting Freising will discover here an exhibition of special intensity that should be seen in person.

Conclusion: This exhibition offers a concentrated, inspiring view of Ruth Kohler's work and makes the power of color visible in rare clarity. A visit to the Diocesan Museum Freising is worthwhile for anyone wishing to experience painting as an aesthetic experience, an art-historical discovery, and a spiritual enrichment.