Paul Strecker, Schwarze Akrobaten X, 1949, Öl auf Leinwand, 30 x 50 cm, ©Paul-Strecker-Stiftung.
With the cabinet exhibition »Paul Strecker – Magic of the Curtain« the Kunsthaus Dahlem shows works of the unusual and versatile artist. His work includes paintings, drawings and stage designs as well as literary texts. In addition, as a teacher and critic, he influenced art history in his adopted home of Paris, where he lived…
Peter László Péri (1899–1967) emigrated from Berlin to London in 1933 – persecuted for racial and political reasons, the capital was no longer a home for the Hungarian-born artist after the National Socialists took power. He had worked in Germany from 1920 to 1933. The renowned gallery owner Herwarth Walden exhibited his concrete and wooden…
»Sculptures and reliefs have been cast in concrete ever since the beginning of its use for building, but modelling in concrete is comparatively new. After many years of experiment, I have found that this method of modelling has many advantages. The sculpture which gets stone hard during the process of modelling retains the freshness of…
Paul Jaray, vom Auto
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first automobile with a scientifically based, aerodynamic design, Kunsthaus Dahlem is dedicating the first monographic exhibition in Berlin to the engineer, artist and mathematician Paul Jaray (1889-1974). The fluid mechanical discoveries that led to his Ley prototype of 1922 not only revolutionised automotive design but also intervened dramatically…
Erich Buchholz, »Architectural model studio Herkulesufer 15, Berlin«, 1922/1968, Foundation for Concrete Art and Design, Ingolstadt. Photo: Hubert P. Klotzeck.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Erich Buchholz (1891-1972), the Kunsthaus Dahlem is presenting an exhibition in cooperation with the Foundation for Concrete Art Ingolstadt and the National Museum in Szczecin about the versatile artist, whose post-war oeuvre is now being presented for the first time prominently in focus. While…