In spring 1955, just a decade after the end of the war, an exhibition opened at the Paris Cercle Volney that would make history: Under the title "Peintures et sculptures non figuratives en Allemagne aujourd'hui," it provided a grand stage for 37 abstract artists from Germany under a glass roof and chandeliers. Emil Schumacher and Karl Otto Götz were among them, as well as Willi Baumeister and Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Fritz Winter and Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff. Painters like Fred Thieler or K. R. H. Sonderborg and sculptors like Norbert Kricke. 70 years after the much-noticed event at the time, the Emil Schumacher Museum is reconstructing this Paris exhibition. Many of the younger participants are now considered major representatives of Informel.