On view is a small selection from over 800 watercolors, “Landschaftstheoretische Aquarelle,” made by the Swiss Renaissance man Lucius Burckhardt during his decades-long tenure as professor of sociology in the architecture department of the University of Kassel. Together, these watercolors serve as a hands-on “theory of the landscape” centered around one of the fundamental questions that accompanied Burckhardt throughout his teaching life: “Warum ist Landschaft schön?” or “Why is landscape beautiful?” Notwithstanding the many hundreds of books written in response to this query, perhaps this is a question that only paint can answer.
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