The gallery Henze & Ketterer in Wichtrach/Bern is an art gallery for modern and contemporary art, representing artworks of the Classical Modernism, the German Expressionism, especially the artist group Brücke, the German Abstraction as well as contemporary artists.
History edit
Campione d'Italia edit
In Campione d'Italia, Ingeborg Henze-Ketterer and Wolfgang Henze founded the Galleria Henze in 1970. This specialized in prints of German Expressionism, German Abstraction of the 1950s and by living artists. In close cooperation with the Roman Norbert Ketterer Gallery, which was also run in the Italian exclave by their father and father-in-law respectively, the gallery showed exhibitions and published catalogs of artworks by the artists represented. Together they also managed the copyrights of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and kept an archive of the artist's works.
Wichtrach near Bern edit
This activity is continued since 1993, expanded, in Wichtrach. For this purpose, the "Galerie Henze & Ketterer AG", organized in the legal form of a stock corporation, was founded. In Wichtrach, exhibitions on the represented artists are also organized, accompanied by extensive catalogs of offers. The gallery building covers an exhibition area of about 600 square meters on three floors, where usually three different exhibitions are shown. Other exhibitions can be shown in the art depot designed by Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, the architects of the Kirchner Museum Davos, which is located directly between the gallery building and the main street. The gallery regularly participates in international art fairs, such as Art Cologne, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht and Art Karlsruhe, and maintains several artists' archives, in particular that of German Expressionist and Brücke artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Riehen near Basel edit
Since 2005, the branch managed by Alexandra Henze Triebold and Marc Triebold, Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold Riehen, also hosts exhibitions on the artists and artist groups represented. This was created by the merger of Galerie Triebold, active since 1986 in Basel, later Rheinfelden, and Galerie Henze & Ketterer Wichtrach/Bern.
Program and exhibitions edit
Expressionism, especially "Brücke": George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Christian Rohlfs, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Georg Tappert. 20s: Karl Hofer. Emigration to Italy after 1933: Eduard Bargheer and Max Peiffer Watenphul. Abstraction after 1945: Francis Bott, Theo Eble, Günther Gumpert, Karl Hartung, Bernard Schultze, Theodor Werner and Fritz Winter. New Figuration after 1960: Georg Baselitz, Darío Basso, Jürgen Brodwolf, Alfonso Hüppi, Kubach-Wilmsen, Paolo Serra and Daniel Spoerri. Regular exhibitions on these artists and their environment are shown at both locations, Galerie Henze & Ketterer Wichtrach/Bern and Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold Riehen/Basel.. In 2011, for example, the gallery in Wichtrach showed the exhibition Opera al nero with works by Giovanni Manfredini.
Ernst-Ludwig-Kirchner-Archiv edit
Roman Norbert Ketterer had been the administrator of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's estate since 1954. In connection with this activity, the first archiving of the artist's work took place. From 1980 this was systematically continued, first in the Galleria Henze in Campione, later in the Gallery Henze & Ketterer Wichtrach/Bern, where today every appearing information about Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his work is still collected, catalogued and archived. Part of the archive is also the complete literature by and about the artist and his work. Furthermore, the task of the archive is to clarify questions of authenticity. Wolfgang Henze is the director of the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Estate edit
Since the death of Roman Norbert Ketterer in 2002, the executors of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's estate have been his daughter Ingeborg Henze-Ketterer and his son Günther Ketterer.
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