The Kunsthaus Dahlem will exhibit, for the first time ever in Berlin, works by the Jewish painter Armin Stern, largely forgotten after years of living in exile. Born in 1883 in Galánta, Austria-Hungary, near today’s Bratislava, Slovakia, Stern studied painting beginning in 1900 in several cities that he resided in, including Frankfurt, Munich and Paris,…

With the installation „Der gelbe Kauz“, artists Anja Gerecke and Stefan Rummel present a new work created specifically for Kunsthaus Dahlem’s sculpture garden. In their mixed-media intervention, they examine the development of sculpture, architecture and its impact on the spectator, color as a trigger for emotions and sound as a metaphor for time and process.…

In der Ausstellung werden über 70 Werke von fast 20 Künstlern und Künstlerinnen aus den Gattungen Skulptur, Malerei, Grafik und Fotografie gezeigt, u.a. von Ruthild Hahne, Karl Hartung, Bernhard Heiliger, Jeanne Mammen, Louise Stomps und Hans Uhlmann. Im Mai 1945 kapituliert die Deutsche Wehrmacht vor den Alliierten Siegermächten. Trotz großer materieller Not kommt in der…

With about a dozen photographic works and an equal number of sculptures, the Kunsthaus Dahlem presents the artist Fritz Kühn (1910-1967). Trained as a artist blacksmith, Kühn opened his atelier-shop in Berlin-Bohnsdorf in 1937. His first photgraphic work -10 Jahre Kunstschmiede Fritz Kühn – was published in 1947, in which he formulated his examination of…

In 1966, Berlin sculptor Bernhard Heiliger created the stage design for the production of Faust II of his friend, the actor and director Ernst Schröder, at Schiller Theater. His concept was that of a sculpture, within which the actors could move. The production was a collaboration also with the painter Alexander Camaro, who created the…