Image Interpretation: “Heimat Südeifel” (2025)

Technique: Painting, drawing, and silkscreen on glass
Dimensions: 170 × 170 cm
Series: Spirit and Matter

In his work Heimat – Südeifel 2025, Dieter Nusbaum unfolds a complex, multilayered visual structure that dissolves the boundaries between landscape, memory, and imagination. The composition unites elements of painting, drawing, and screen printing into a poetically condensed reflection on the relationship between human beings, nature, and cultural memory. Through the superimposition of transparent pictorial layers, Nusbaum creates a sense of visual depth reminiscent of sedimented layers of time—a palimpsestic fusion of observation and symbolic construction.

In the foreground, a field of daisies evokes notions of familiarity and rootedness. Above it hovers a translucent geometric form, appearing as an architectural fragment or conceptual space—an emblem of human rationality and of the constructed nature of “home.” The forest landscape behind it, rendered in muted greys and delicate lines, refers to the artist’s native region, the Südeifel, yet through painterly and print-based interventions it is transformed into a landscape of memory.

Rising above this terrain is a circular form encircled by colored dots, reminiscent of a cosmic or metaphysical constellation. This chromatic arrangement expands the pictorial space toward the transcendent. The luminous points contrast with the subdued tonal range of the landscape, suggesting energy, diversity, and the utopian dimension implied by the date “2025” in the title.



Formally, the work achieves a balance between figuration and abstraction. Nusbaum combines precise draftsmanship with painterly dissolution and the clarity of screen-printed surfaces. The result is a polyphonic visual language in which analog and digital processes, nature and construction, past and future, enter into a productive dialogue. The transparent layers resist a single interpretation, opening instead a poetic dimension in which “Heimat” is conceived as an ongoing process of remembrance, projection, and localization.

Within the broader context of Nusbaum’s oeuvre, Heimat – Südeifel 2025 continues his sustained engagement with landscape as a repository of cultural experience. For Nusbaum, landscape is not a faithful depiction of nature but a reflective space for human identity and perception. Here, “home” becomes an open, dynamic concept—neither nostalgic idyll nor fixed territory, but a multilayered construct shaped by time, transformation, and memory. In this sense, Nusbaum’s image is less a depiction of place than a visual meditation on belonging, change, and the possibility of redefining “home” in the age of the Anthropocene.