The beauty and power of Worpswede have been artistically processed by the Barlach Prize winner Alexander Dettmar since his early youth. He is fascinated by houses that, like individual corporeal beings, have stories to tell. Often, his work revolves around typical northern German architecture. He says of himself, "Brick runs in my blood." After many successes in the world’s metropolises, the painter is continually drawn back to his homeland around Worpswede and the Teufelsmoor.

The Worpswede Art Hall presents selected works that – painterly powerful – span the arc between Worpswede and Paris; an arc that was already defining for the first generation of Worpswede artists, notably Paula Modersohn-Becker, her husband Otto Modersohn, Bernhard Hoetger, and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.