Barbara Magdalena Neuhäuser calls her studio farm in Gröben in the Saale-Holzland district, where she lives and works with her husband, the painter and graphic artist Manfred Neuhäuser, "my hermitage". But what the artist creates here finds its way into the world.

"... pictures that she has created with a wide variety of materials. With clay soil, straw, acrylic paint, gold pigments, traces of ink, cotton or other fabrics to create a certain plasticity that introduces us to the depth of her paintings. She leaves the path of pure painting to create spatial objects that lie between a world of mystical magic and almost seem like relics of a rite." (Diana Henkel, 2002)