This international exhibition project with a transatlantic focus is organized by the LVR Museum of Industry and comprises 200 paintings illustrating the development of the mining, iron and steel industries from around 1800 to the structural changes of today.
It contrasts the Ruhr region, Europe's largest industrial conurbation, with the rapid growth of Pittsburgh, the steel capital of America. Paintings of industry by Bonhommé, Baluschek and Gorson, and by Schütz, Felixmüller and Rethel enable comparisons between these "Feuerländer" (lands of fire).
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