Josef Albers / Hans Nathan Feibusch / Arnold Fiedler / Franz Frank / Teo Gebürsch / George Grosz / Alfred Hanf / Otto Hermann / Georg Paul Heyduck / Eric Isenburger / Hella Jacobs / César Klein / Else Lasker-Schüler / Ludwig Meidner / Georg Meistermann / Otto Nagel / Valentin Nagel / Otto Pankok / Carl Rabus / Hubert Rüther / Erna Schmidt-Caroll / Wilhelm Schnarrenberger / Horst Strempel / Oskar Zügel

During the first months of 2012 the Museum of Persecuted Arts of Solingen will be the guest of Prague’s Montanelli Museum.

In the European context the Museum of Persecuted Arts is a unique and highly respected institution. It combines art and literature and concentrates on the two totalitarian eras of the last century, presenting the art of those who fought against national socialism and communism.

The central figure of the “Dreams and Nightmares“ exhibition is the artist Else Lasker-Schüler. It was she, in the nineteen twenties, who coined the well-known phrase: “Manchmal habe ich Sehnsucht nach Prag – Sometimes I long for Prague“. In 1933 Else Lasker-Schüler had to flee the Germany of the Nazis and she died alone in Jerusalem in 1945. A great part of the exhibition is taken up by her drawings and collages, which were until very recently displayed with great success in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Modern Art in Berlin.

The exhibition will be further enriched by works of other renowned authors from the collection of the Solingen Museum.

The “Dreams and Nightmares“ exhibition is supported by the Czech-German Fund for the Future.

Exhibits supplied by:
Museum der verfolgten Künste / Museum of Persecuted Arts,
Kunstmuseum Solingen GmbH
Wuppertaler Str. 160, 42653 Solingen
Tel.: +49212 258 140
Director: Dr. Rolf Jessewitsch

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