‘Scholz is essential...
because he confronts issues of our time that concern us all, and because he really takes formal risks.’
These qualities, ascribed by a critic to the young Berlin painter Werner Scholz (1898–1982), still apply today. Scholz devoted himself expressively and empathetically to the lives of the petit bourgeoisie or demi-monde and looked at the darker side of the interwar years in Germany. His protagonists are the destitute and grieving, refugees and the ones left behind – dignified figures with insistent presence.
Around 1930 Werner Scholz was seen as a promising newcomer thanks to his strikingly stylised compositions; progressive galleries showed his work, and important museums acquired it. Proscribed by the National Socialists as ‘degenerate’ in 1937, Scholz withdrew to the Tirol in 1939. In 1944 a bomb ruined his Berlin studio, and most of the pictures hidden there were destroyed. The exhibition The Weight of Time takes a look at what could be saved and presents it in Hamburg for the first time in decades. For Scholz is essential to our time as well.
DATES OF THE EXHIBITION
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Tuesday
03
December
6pmTours with the curatorHans PlatschekCurator's tour‘Self as will-o’-the-wisp’. 125th Anniversary HomageExperience our exhibition on a guided tour with curator Karsten Müller. Free of charge (museum admission only). Registration not required. In German language.
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Costs
- admission free, plus museum admission
- Anmeldung
- not required
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