Max Ackermann
13.03.2025 - 28.05.2025
Pioneer of abstraction
DIE GALERIE
With the exhibition Max Ackermann - Pioneer of Abstraction DIE GALERIE honors the life and work of a German pioneer of non-objective painting on the 50th anniversary of his death. Born in Berlin in 1887 and working mainly in Stuttgart and on Lake Constance, Max Ackermann (1887 - 1975) was one of the absolute pioneers of German and international abstraction. Always keen to experiment and open to new techniques and styles, the artist's work is characterized by an impressive and consistent diversity. For a long time, Max Ackermann did not commit himself to a particular style of painting and alternated between figuration and abstraction, between Verism and New Objectivity, between geometric forms and pure color surfaces, until he finally decided to adopt an exclusively non-representational pictorial language in the last years of his life.
In around 70 works, DIE GALERIE highlights the enormous spectrum of this artistic genius, ranging from extremely dynamic compositions, often inspired by music, to large-scale color fields in different shades of blue that radiate a sense of calm and harmony. The works in Max Ackermann's exhibition, created between 1930 and the mid-1970s, are like a perfectly coordinated symphony of loud and soft tones that captivates every viewer.
In addition to Max Ackermann's paintings and works on paper, we are showing a selection of sculptures by our sculptors Riccardo Cordero, Beate Debus, Sonja Edle von Hoeßle, Dietrich Klinge, Herbert Mehler and Igor Mitoraj.
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