Künstlerspur Leipzig: Ein Abend für Max Schwimmer

In the organizer's words:

December 11, 2025 / 5 pm / Hall 3

Artists' Trail Leipzig: An evening for Max Schwimmer

Opening of the exhibition: 5 pm, start of the event: 6 pm

In December 2025, the great painter, graphic artist and illustrator Max Schwimmer, who was born in Leipzig, would have been 130 years old. The "Künstlerspur Leipzig" is dedicating this evening to him with an exhibition, speeches and musical contributions.

Schwimmer, who studied art history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 1919, later taught at the Leipzig School of Arts and Crafts and was immediately dismissed from his teaching post after the Nazis came to power in 1933. As part of the "Degenerate Art" campaign in 1937, several of his paintings were confiscated and destroyed. After 1945, he returned to Leipzig and became a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in 1946, before moving to the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1951, where he remained until his death in 1960. He is buried in the Leipzig-Lindenau cemetery.

Inge Stuhr, the biographer and long-time curator of the Max Schwimmer estate, will give the opening lecture on his life and work. Gabriele Albani talks about Max Schwimmer from the perspective of a collector, Klaus Pezold about his relationship with Heinrich Wigand. Elli Neuhaus will read letters written by Schwimmer, while Dagmar Winklhofer-Bülow and Helmuth Markov will contribute personal memories of the artist. Mezzo-soprano Alexandra Röseler will accompany the evening with music.

Admission: 7,- EUR

Event in cooperation with Künstlerspur Leipzig, Rosas Salon and Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V.