With around 120 paintings, watercolours and drawings, this first comprehensive retrospective in thirty years offers insight into a multifaceted oeuvre, spanning all its phases. Beyond this, it sheds a light on the central themes and motifs that have shaped Nay’s work over the decades and, by shifting perspectives, looking backwards and forwards in time, enables us to see his work as an organic whole. Seen against the background of its era, it comprises the various political and scientific issues that found expression in his work.