‘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.
![Werner Scholz: Couple, 1931, private collection © Estate of Werner Scholz, Hamburg; photo: private](/media/content_big/ebh_scholz_04_zirkusreiterin_1930.jpg)
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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Saturday
10
August
11 amEventMixed MediaWorkshopStudio for young people and adultsFrom drawing to cutting, from paper to metal - everything can be combined and inspires unusual objects. With Janina Trienekens.
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Costs
- ... Euro (incl. material)
- Anmeldung
- Due to the limited number of participants, we ask for a binding pre-registration under 040/ 82242116 or lott@barlach-haus.de.
- Contact
- Dagmar Lott
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