Else Lasker student.
The pictures January 21, 2011 - May 1, 2011
Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of the Present

The exhibition “Else Lasker-Schuler – The Pictures” undertakes a fundamental and the most comprehensive appreciation to date of Lasker-Schuler as a visual artist. Her pictures were noticed and appreciated during her lifetime, but due to their fragility they are rarely shown.

The Nationalgalerie Berlin, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, is showing a comprehensive and authoritative retrospective of Else Lasker-Schuler's visual works. It includes the well-known motifs that appeared in “Storm” as well as some sheets that are being shown here for the first time. The decision to show Else Lasker-Schuler's pictures for the first time in a large art museum is based on the extraordinary aesthetic quality of the works.

The Nationalgalerie in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Aktuell, Berlin, is the ideal place to familiarize a young generation with Else Lasker-Schuler's paintings, which appear almost contemporary. Her expressive, mostly colored drawings present a fascinating world of images in which suggestions from ancient Egyptian art are encountered as well as references to artist friends of the “Blue Rider” or fantastic visions of life in the Orient.

In the catalog accompanying the exhibition, which is published by Suhrkamp-Verlag, all of the drawings are collected and organized for the first time in an illustrated catalog raisonné. By opening up the visual artistic oeuvre, Else Lasker-Schuler's work is now visible in its entirety for the first time. The show is accompanied by a literary supporting program.