Gallery students

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The gallery students , even Galerie Walter students or "Little Gallery" Walter student , was next to the galleries roses (est. 1945), Bremen (est. 1946), Franz (est. 1946) and Springer one of the first (est. 1948) well-known galleries for contemporary and abstract art in post-war Berlin. It was founded in 1946 by Walter and Irene Schüler and made a significant contribution to the revival of Berlin's art scene after the Second World War . The gallery existed until 1988.

history

Foundation and first years

Walter Schüler (born March 17, 1908 in Stolp / Pomerania ; † July 24, 1992 in Berlin ) came from an old Jewish furrier and fur trade family, in which he began a commercial training. The era of National Socialism , he survived with the help of friends as "Mr. Schiller" camouflaged and worked occasionally as a dance teacher. In 1945 he married Irene Schüler and founded the “Kleine Galerie”, which in the early years was privately run in Berlin-Zehlendorf .

The opening exhibition took place on August 1, 1946 at Teltower Damm 70 with works by Ilse Bergmann-Rotzoll , Walter Bergmann and Renée Sintenis . One of the first successes was an exhibition in 1947 with works by Franz Marc , August Macke and Paul Adolf Seehaus . A catalog with the title "Detail" as well as catalogs about Oskar and Marg Moll and Christian Rohlfs was published for the one-year existence of the gallery . The friends of the gallery included the art critic Carl Linfert ( Der Kurier ), the art historian Gerhard Händler and Karl Willy Beer as well as the Berlin-based art collectors Max Leon Flemming , Gustav Stein and Markus Kruss. Initially geared towards classical modernism with exhibitions on Alexej von Jawlensky , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Christian Rohlfs and Horst Strempel , Schüler soon devoted himself to Tachism and Informel , which in Germany only comes from Galerie 22 in Düsseldorf and from the Zimmer Galerie Franck was exhibited in Frankfurt am Main.

Relocation to the Kurfürstendamm

At the end of 1950 the gallery moved into new rooms on the third floor at number 51 on Kurfürstendamm , where it was operated for another 38 years until it was closed. The first exhibition showed works by Ewald Mataré . Schüler introduced a subscription system that was based on favorable terms and conditions of payment and an exchange system (take three paintings with you, pay for one, return two with permanent exchange rights) and in this way attracted a new, young generation of collectors.

Shortly before his 80th birthday, Walter Schüler closed his gallery work in February 1988. He and his wife Irene Schüler died in Berlin in July 1992. They found their final resting place in the new Amrum cemetery. The gallery's estate is with the nephew, the gallery owner Michael Jaspers, in Munich and in the central archive of the international art trade (ZADIK).

Exhibitions from 1951 (selection)

1951

1952

  • January: Edith Rowek, Helmut Verch
  • July: Anton Kerschbauer, Otto Hofmann
  • October: Ludwig Peter Kowalski

1953

  • January: Joachim Kurscht
  • February: Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff
  • April: Hans Jaenisch
  • September: Fritz Winter

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

  • February: Bernard Schultze
  • March: Hann Trier
  • April: Dieter Kraemer
  • September: Fritz Winter

1962

  • January: Werner Lauterbach
  • March: Rupprecht Geiger
  • April: Mario Bionda
  • June: Walter Stöhrer

1963

1964

1965

1966

  • February: Hans Jaenisch
  • March: Walter Stöhrer, Heinrich Brummack
  • June: Peter Brüning
  • October: Emil Schumacher, 20 years gallery student

1967

  • January: Max G. Kaminski
  • February: Gernot Bubenik
  • April: Rudolf Hübler
  • June: Alexej J. Barchlakow
  • October: Walter Menne

1968

  • January: Heinrich Brummack
  • March: Walter Stöhrer
  • April: Cambiage
  • September: Fritz Winter

1969

  • January: Hann Trier
  • February: Klaus Fußmann
  • April: Paul Uwe Dreyer
  • May: Max Kaminski
  • June: Gerd van Dülmen

1970

1971

  • January: Walter Stöhrer
  • March: Hann Trier
  • September: Fritz Winter
  • October: Paul Uwe Dreyer

1972

  • March: Max Kaminski
  • April: Gerd van Dülmen
  • May: Peter Grämer

1973

  • January: Tachism 1955–1962
  • June: Fred Thieler
  • November: H. Kirschner

1974

  • February: Klaus Jürgen-Fischer
  • March: Paul Uwe Dreyer
  • September: Gerd van Dülmen
  • November: Max Kaminski

1975

  • January: Harry Kögler
  • September: Ursula and Bernard Schultze

1976

1977

  • March: Hann Trier, fire and wind
  • September: Hans Jaenisch
  • November: Klaus Fußmann

1978

  • January: Art circle of the gallery, early works
  • September: Fred Thieler

1979

  • January: Fritz Winter
  • September: Fred Thieler, Gerald Matzner
  • November: Matschinsky-Denninghoff

1980

  • January: Gerd van Dülmen
  • March: Klaus Fußmann
  • December: Fußmann, Kaminsky, Thieler, Matschinsky-Denninghoff

1981

  • January: Paul Quick
  • March: Bernard Schultze
  • October: Laszlo Lakner

1982

  • January: Reinhard Dickel
  • October: Max Neumann , Axel Sander

1983

  • February: Fußmann, Schultze, Thieler
  • December: Bernard Schultze

1984

  • February: Gerald Matzner
  • October: Fred Thieler
  • November: Otto Herbert Hajek

1985

  • March: Sabine Franek-Koch, Sander, Freudenthal
  • November: Bernard Schultze, for his 70th birthday

1986

  • February: Fußmann, Kaminsky
  • March: Dan Freudenthal
  • November: Hermann Krauth

1987

  • April: Freudenthal, Krauth, Lazlo Lakner
  • October: Dan Freudenthal

1988

  • January / February: Fußmann, Neumann, Sonderborg, Thieler, Schultze, Hoehme, Kürschner, Matzner, Prachensky

Publications (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Heinz Lüdecke, How do young people feel about art? In: Berliner Zeitung , August 1, 1947.
  • Heinz Ohff , gallery owner from the very beginning. Walter Schüler turns 70 today . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 9876, March 17, 1978, p. 5.
  • Heinz Ohff, after 42 years. Final exhibition in the student gallery . In: Der Tagesspiegel, February 13, 1988.
  • Berlinische Galerie (ed.), Zone 5. Art in the four-sector city 1945–1951 , Verlag Dirk Nishen , Berlin 1989.
  • Heinz Ohff, On the death of the gallery owner Walter Schüler . In: Der Tagesspiegel, July 25, 1992.
  • Bernard Schultze , sixth sense. Walter pupil in memory . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 29, 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Heinz Ohff, gallery owner from the very beginning. Walter Schüler turns 70 today . In: Der Tagesspiegel, No. 9876, March 17, 1978, p. 5.
  2. ↑ See: Information on the Jaspers Gallery, accessed on October 11, 2017



Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 2 ″  E