In the workshop StadtgesICHter: Gemalte Portraits hinter Glas (CityFaces: Painted Portraits Behind Glass), children playfully discover the art of portrait drawing.
After a short warm-up in the exhibition KLASSE IN WEIßENSEE! Wolfgang Peuker und seine Schüler:innen (CLASS IN WEIßENSEE! Wolfgang Peuker and His Students), in which participants feel their own faces behind a piece of paper and trace the lines they feel blindly, they receive age-appropriate assistance with proportions and facial divisions.
Older children (from class 3 onwards) place their drawing behind an acrylic plate and transfer the lines of their portrait directly onto the glass with an edding marker. The face is finished in a free and colourful style using acrylic paints.
Younger children create their portraits with soft Jackson crayons. Black-and-white cityscapes from the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank, printed on paper and placed behind the acrylic plate, serve as the background. A frame made of adhesive tape completes each individual work, creating a bright, personal cityscape behind glass that can be taken home.