The presentation, consisting of around 70 works, provides an overview of the entire artistic output of the painter and graphic artist. His caricatures, with which he made a name for himself in Germany around 1900, are almost unknown; they form the basis for his grotesque figure compositions created before World War I.

With the discovery of the Thuringian village churches and, at the latest from 1922, with the experience of the Baltic Sea, Feininger's visual world changes, condensing into spatially fragmented and atmospherically charged, complex compositions.

With his return to his hometown, he had to leave his beloved motifs in Germany in 1937. Branded as a "degenerate" artist by the National Socialists, a late work emerges in New York until his death in 1956, which repeatedly revisits motifs from his time in Germany from memory.

Many of the exhibited works, including paintings and works on paper, but also three-dimensional objects, are provided by private lenders and are very rarely seen in public.

The exhibition is curated by Feininger expert Ulrich Luckhardt from Hamburg.

In conjunction with the exhibition, two evening events and exclusive curator tours will take place:

April 25, 2025: Lecture by Martin Faas, Darmstadt

May 16, 2025: Reading by Ines Burdow, Berlin