Shop gallery (Berlin)

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The shopping gallery Müller is a gallery of realistic art, which in 1962 Berlin was founded. During the time of the division of Berlin , it made an important contribution to the understanding between East and West in the cultural field.

history

On November 20, 1962, Wichart Müller opened the gallery in Bleibtreustraße in Berlin . The aim of the gallery was initially to give young Berlin artists a platform for their work. Here he placed a focus on representational art , which was not a matter of course, not least because of the political situation at the time.

Over the years, the gallery changed its domicile within Berlin several times under its directors Wichart Müller (1927–1974) and later Karoline Müller and Valentin Müller:

  • 1962 shop gallery, Bleibtreustraße 5a
  • 1964 shop gallery, Bleibtreustraße 20
  • 1969 shop gallery, Wilmersdorfer Str. 82/83
  • 1970 Shop gallery, Kurfürstendamm 64
  • 1997 shop gallery, Urbanstr. 115
  • 2001 shop gallery, Brunnenstr. 5
  • 2005 Shop gallery, Drontheimer Str. 34
  • since 2007 Ladengalerie Müller GmbH, Alt-Tempelhof 26

With over fifty years of history, it is one of the most successful and oldest private galleries in Berlin.

In 1964 the gallery first exhibited works by Lea Grundig , who at the time was president of the Association of German Artists (later VBK of the GDR) . There were discussion forums in the gallery, which received a lot of attention from the press and the public. These were later continued as part of a discussion in the GDR Academy of the Arts . After the building of the wall , the activities of the shop gallery represented the first German-German understanding in the artistic field. These discussions found a long tradition, especially in the context of exhibitions by artists from the GDR in the shop gallery.

The gallery was represented several times at Art Basel , Art Cologne and Art Frankfurt .

In 1987 the gallery owner Karoline Müller , who was managing director and first chairwoman of the Association of Berlin Artists for many years , received the Karl Hofer Prize of the Berlin University of the Arts , the Federal Cross of Merit in 2001 and the Louise Schroeder Medal in 2010 .

Quotes

“Back then, in the 1950s, realistic tendencies in art had a difficult time. The informal and non-objective was popular, and Uhlmann and Karl Hofer faced each other as antipodes at the Berlin University of Fine Arts . The figurative painter publicly argued with the advocate of the abstract, Will Grohmann , about which was better ... For Karoline Müller there was no question of taking on the figurative. Just as there is neither good nor bad art for her, because you will only know that in 100 years, and the young woman was just as open to both directions. Until after graduating in 1962, she decided to found a gallery with her husband, the art theorist Wichart Müller, whom she had met at the university. (Corinna Daniels) "

Exhibitions (selection)

Otto Nagel and Herbert Ihering during an exhibition opening in the shop gallery, 1966
Lea Grundig in the shop gallery, 1966

1962

1963

  • Uwe Bremer : "Painting and Graphics"
  • Margarete Manthey: "Oil Paintings"

1964

1965

1966

  • Otto Nagel : "Oil paintings and drawings from 4 1/1 decades"
  • Hans Grundig : "Etchings (cycle people and animals)"


1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

  • Janosch: "Pictures, hand drawings, books, posters"
  • Günter Senge : Pictures from the years 1961–1971

1973

  • Lea Grundig: "The etcher"
  • 1973 Klaus Hohlfeld

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

  • Kurt Mühlenhaupt on his 60th birthday
  • Hans Grundig: "Memento mori"
  • Manfred Bluth: "Pictures and sketches from Tuscany"

1982

  • Guido Messer : "Sculptures"
  • Jan Peter Tripp: "Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints"

1983

  • Lea Grundig: Drawings and Etchings
  • Kurt Mühlenhaupt: "Tuscany"

1984

1985

  • Johannes Grützke: “The Naked Man. Brush drawings "
  • Michael Otto : "Oil paintings and cityscapes"
  • Hans Dieter Tylle : "Pictures from the hard coal and potash mining"

1986

1987

1988

  • Thomas Harndt : "Urban landscapes, portraits and still lifes from the eighties"

1989

  • Michael Otto: "Pictures 1985/89, 1938, stations and city highways"
  • Max Stock : "Oil on paper"
  • Irene Niepel : "Cheetah in the stairwell"

1990

1991

  • Kurt Mühlenhaupt on his 70th birthday
  • "Max Lingner in Paris"
  • Ruth Baumgarte  : "Pictures and Drawings"

1992

  • Fritz Cremer: "Sculptures and Drawings"
  • Irene Niepel

1993

1994

1995

  • Fritz Cremer: "Sculptures, Drawings, Graphics"
  • José García y Más: "Good-bye, Miss Banana"
  • Christine Perthen : "Drawings and Etchings"
  • Ingeborg Leuthold : "Pictures 1952–1995"

1996

  • Christa Cremer
  • Monika Brachmann : "Greetings from the Uckermark"
  • Lea Grundig: "Jewish, communist, graphic artist"
  • Johannes Grützke: "Thoughts about existence"

1997

  • José García y Más: "The Brave New World"
  • Esteban Fekete : "Painting and Color Woodcuts"

1998

  • Ingeborg Leuthold: "Pictures"
  • Johannes Grützke "The graphic work"

1999

2000

  • Fritz Kreidt : "Prussian construction sites Berlin 1999"
  • Ingeborg Leuthold: "Wool Pictures"

2001

  • Kurt Mühlenhaupt for his 80th
  • Hans Grundig: "1901–1958, drawings and prints"

2002

  • Johannes Grützke: "Oil Paintings 2000-2001"
  • "40 years of the gallery"

2003

  • Johannes Grützke: "Still life"

2004

  • Mac Lingner: "Free work and mural designs"
  • Monika Brachmann: "Greetings from Uckermark II"

2005

  • Lea Grundig: "The Cycles The Jew is to Blame"
  • Lea Grundig: “Early drawings from 1926–1938. Exhibition for the 100th birthday "

2006

  • Ingeborg Leuthold: "In the factory"

2007

2009

  • Johannes Grützke: "The attitude of Bathsheba "
  • Rita Preuss on her 85th birthday

2010

  • Kurt Mühlenhaupt on his 90th birthday

2011

  • Johannes Grützke
  • Monika Brachmann: "Painting"

2012

literature

Due to the history of the gallery and the fact that extensive self-published catalogs have been published for numerous exhibitions, the shop gallery alone has 3 addresses at the German National Library :

Selection of published catalogs and books

  • 1963 Joachim Ringelnatz . Commemorative exhibition for his 80th birthday.
  • 1978 Karoline Müller: Beautiful dolls since 1900. Beautiful dolls from all over the world since 1900 as toys and in puppet theater.
  • 1980 Kurt Mühlenhaupt: Hello! Uncle Willi. A Berlin picture book.
  • 1987 Inge Huber and Karoline Müller: On the physiology of the fine arts. Artists, multipliers, art historians. Berlin 1985–1987. Portraits Materials Register. ISBN 3-926460-00-8 .
  • 1989 Aiga Müller: On the back of things. ISBN 3-926460-13-X .
  • 1996 Margarete Godon: painting and sculptures. ISBN 3-926460-51-2 .
  • 1996 Lea Grundig: Jewish, communist, graphic artist. ISBN 3-926460-56-3 .
  • 2009 Johannes Grützke: The attitude of Bathsheba. ISBN 978-3-926460-88-2 .
  • 2010 Ingeborg Leuthold: Total tattoo or the longing for a lost paradise. ISBN 978-3-926460-90-5 .

Web links

Commons : Store Gallery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association chronicle of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V. ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv-vdbk.de
  2. ↑ Friedrich Rothe: STORE GALLERY founded in 1962. Ladengalerie Müller GmbH, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-926460-97-4 .
  3. ↑ Corinna Daniels: A weakness for the figurative. In: THE WORLD. January 11, 2003.