Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie

The anniversary exhibition “50 Years of the Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery” is dedicated to the epoch between 1918 and 1933—one of the most radical and productive moments in art history. Works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky, Max Liebermann, Christian Schad, Kurt Schwitters, and Rudolf Schlichter come together in a panorama ranging from expressive passion to the precise sobriety of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).

Alongside canonical icons, the exhibition also presents extraordinary rediscoveries: the powerful and expressive works of Fritz Schaefler (1897–1991), who, stigmatized as a “degenerate” artist in the 1930s, was pushed to the margins and is today regaining significance with his compelling synthesis of Expressionism and New Objectivity; the pointed, New Objectivity compositions of Werner Hauk, a stylistically independent chronicler of his time, who captured the realities of the interwar years with keen observation; as well as the rarely shown compositions of William Wauer (1866–1962), a pioneer of the German film avant-garde and innovative sculptor whose multifaceted oeuvre—spanning sculpture, painting, and cinema—embodies the aesthetic experiments of modernism.

It is precisely these rediscoveries that lend the presentation its special radiance: they open new perspectives on the diversity of Weimar art and highlight the breadth of this epoch—from internationally celebrated icons to artistic personalities now emerging into the light with renewed intensity.

At our second booth, B4, Feodora Hohenlohe’s “virtual studio” establishes a thematic and art-historical dialogue with this exhibition.