Rediscovered! - Textile pictures for the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt

Modernism entered the main staircase of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in the 1950s with four large-format tapestries. Renovation work on the museum building, which had been severely damaged in the Second World War, was almost complete in 1954 when director Erich Wiese commissioned four contemporary textile works. The established textile artists Else Mögelin and Johanna Schütz-Wolff, the married couple Inge and Fritz Vahle and the painter Fritz Winter were selected.

Else Mögelin studied under Johanes Itten, Paul Klee and Gerhard Marcks at the Bauhaus in Weimar, among others, worked in the weaving workshop there and for many years as head of the textile workshop at the Szczecin School of Arts and Crafts. Johanna Schütz-Wolff influenced numerous artists as head of the textile class and hand weaving workshop at Burg Giebichenstein. The younger generation included the Darmstadt-based artist couple Fritz and Inge Vahle, who stood out not only for their extensive graphic and painterly work but also for their tapestries. Finally, for Fritz Winter, one of the most important abstract painters of the post-war period, textile works were an exceptional phenomenon. Only two tapestries by him are known, the Darmstadt example made a major appearance at the second documenta in Kassel.

 

In 1958, on the occasion of the opening of the newly established Gemäldegalerie, the tapestries were presented to the public as important examples of figurative and non-representational textile art of the 1950s. Now, for the first time in over 50 years, they can be seen again in a cabinet exhibition together with the surviving design drawings.

Nächste Termine

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Juli 2026

11:00 Uhr bis 04.10.2026 18:00  Uhr

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