Kallmann Museum presents Masters of Expressionism
Created: 06/23/2022, 16:15
By: Charlotte Borst
Then the colors bang: Rasmus Kleine and Gerhard Schneider hang up the picture "Suburb View with Gasometer" by Heinrich Maria Davringhausen.
He was one of the innovators of art and yet is little known.
© Dieter MICHALEK
Ismaning – The art collector Gerhard Schneider is visiting Ismaning again.
He is bringing wonderful works of art to the Kallmann Museum for the "Kaleidoscope Expressionism" exhibition, which begins on Sunday.
He has been working with museum director Rasmus Kleine for days.
120 to 130 exhibits should find space in the rooms.
In addition to well-known paintings by Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel and Käthe Kollwitz, there will be a few surprises in this very special Expressionism exhibition, Kleine is convinced: “Visitors can look forward to fantastic paintings, prints and drawings and to discovering many new things. "
Many works of art went unnoticed for a long time
Because the passionate collector Gerhard Schneider tracked down almost forgotten Expressionists for decades and brought to light important works that were defamed as “degenerate” under National Socialism and then went unnoticed for a long time.
Not only will visitors enjoy great works, the exhibition is also thought-provoking.
Because the painful fates of the artists whose careers were wiped out by the Nazis and the beginning of the war are alluded to.
Fruitful cooperation continues
The exhibition is the result of a fruitful collaboration that has lasted for a long time.
And with her, Rasmus Kleine has again achieved a highlight.
The Schneider Collection was a guest in Ismaning for the first time in 2016.
Before that, Kleine had seen the treasures of the art collector from Westphalia in the Ephraim Palais in Berlin.
Little made contact.
His interest was also obvious because of the biography of the museum's founder, Hans Jürgen Kallmann.
He was also banned from exhibiting as a “degenerate artist” by the National Socialists.
However, Kallmann was able to start a second career after the Second World War.
In 2016, Schneider and Kleine jointly developed the exhibition "'Degenerate' Art - Persecution of Modernism in the NS State" and published a catalog for it.
And this time, too, they are publishing a book, 446 pages long, which is being published by Kettler-Verlag.
It presents the works from the Schneider Collection and considers aspects of the contemporary history of their creation.
Visitors will discover many new things
Starting on Sunday, the two exhibition organizers in the "Kaleidoscope of Expressionism" want to take a look at the diversity of expressive forms of expression: from the start with the founding of the "Artist Group Brücke" in 1905 to the abusive exhibition in Munich's Haus der Kunst in 1937, when the National Socialists' works confiscated and degraded up to 20,000 works of art as “degenerate”.
The exhibition leads through various departments into the spirit of optimism in modernism.
It will be exciting to see which treasures from the large pool of the Schneider Collection can be seen.
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guides
"Kaleidoscope Expressionism", June 26 to October 16, Schloßstraße 3b.
Guided tours: Sun. July 24, 3 p.m.;
Sun. August 21, 3 p.m.;
Sun. September 4;
3pm;
Sun. October 16, 3 p.m.
Day of the Ismaninger Museums: July 10;
Culture in the Castle Park: September 9th to 11th