Ausstellungseröffnung: Hans Hartung und die deutsch-französische Freundschaft

In the organizer's words:

Exhibition | Town twinning

The celebrations for two anniversaries - 50 years of town twinning between Schwäbisch Gmünd and Antibes and 150 years of the museum - are being marked with an exhibition in the Prediger on the important Franco-German artist Hans Hartung. Born in Leipzig, the artist moved to Paris at the end of the 1920s. After the National Socialists seized power, it quickly became clear that his departure from Germany would be permanent and Hartung even fought against Germany in the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War. Although he lost a leg in the process, Hartung and his art, which makes traumas tangible, were an important element in the rapprochement between France and Germany through culture after the war. The Stuttgart collector couple Domnick, who discovered Hartung for themselves in Paris and made French abstract painting known in Germany through a traveling exhibition in 1948, played a decisive role in this. The exhibition at the Galerie im Prediger brings together paintings and drawings from the Domnick Collection, Nürtingen, with corresponding works from the Fondation Hartung-Bergman in Antibes for the first time and also includes works that have never been exhibited before.

Vernissage as part of the official ceremony to mark the anniversary of the town twinning.

Language :French, German

Duration of the event until 27.09.2026

Advance ticket sales at https://www.museum-galerie-fabrik.de/hans-hartung-und-die-deutsch-franzoesische-freundschaft.html

Organizer: Museum and Gallery in the Prediger https://www.museum-galerie-fabrik.de/

Price information:

Free admission on the opening evening, admission after the opening evening: adults 5.00 euros / reduced 3.00 euros, children and young people up to 18 years of age admission