Ich als Irrwisch
In the organizer's words:
The painter and draughtswoman Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899-1940) is one of the most important artistic voices of the early 20th century. Her dynamic, sensitive and simply unmistakable visual language is unparalleled in the realism of the Weimar period.
Already during her studies at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, she left her parental home at the age of just 16 and went her own way. Commercial art, book illustrations and, in particular, the then popular art of batik provided her with a livelihood. Under the pseudonym "Nikolaus Wächtler", she became part of the Dresden avant-garde from 1917. Her close circle included artists such as Conrad Felixmüller, Otto Griebel and Otto Dix, writers such as Rudolf Adrian Dietrich and the Berlin Dada circle around Johannes Baader and Raoul Hausmann.
In 1925, Lohse-Wächtler moved to Hamburg, where she experienced her most artistically productive and successful phase. Despite economic hardship and personal crises - which led to her first stay in a psychiatric clinic in 1929 - she created works of great expressiveness and intensity. She confidently penetrated the male domains of the restricted districts and depicted everyday life and the hustle and bustle in the pubs and entertainment venues of St. Pauli. Her unconventional portraits of "everyday people" and her numerous, unsparingly honest self-portraits are still impressive today.
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler's life is a story of courage, self-assertion and artistic indomitability - and ends tragically with forced hospitalization and state-legitimized extermination: she was murdered in 1940 as part of the National Socialist "Action T4". The retrospective at the Kunsthalle Vogelmann pays tribute to her work with around 100 works from public and private collections.
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