Andreas Züst (1947–2000) had an allembracing interest in the world, ranging from the natural sciences to the art scene, and from small molecular structures to the whole wealth of human being. Züst’s omnipresent companion was the 35mm camera with which he captured and ordered the world.

Throughout his whole life Andreas Züst was enthusiastic about natural events. As a student of glaciology he carried out several months of research in Greenland, undertaking, among other things, ice core drilling. He collected books and objects on the theme, illustrated volumes and expedition reports, and also Inuit carvings. He made a selection of his photographs for six slide-carousels entitled “Eis” (Ice). These address the theme of Ice in its most diverse forms, as an infinite ice landscape or as ice crystals, as a luminous blue or as dazzling, white, freshly drifting snow, as a Polar bear gazing into the camera on an ice-covered beach or as a research station frozen over in the light of a full moon.