Workshop on the Digital Catalog of Hand Drawings and Prints by Lea Grundig

On June 7, 2018, a joint event of the Hans-und-Lea-Grundig-Foundation and the Max-Lingner-Foundation in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste Berlin took place at the Max-Lingner-Haus to discuss the digital catalog of hand drawings and prints by Lea Grundig, which is currently in preparation. Thanks to the initiative of Dr. Maria Heiner (Dresden) and implemented by Peter Straube (Dresden), the digital internet project is to be completed in 2019 and will include several thousand entries. Maria Heiner has researched in museums, archives and private collections worldwide for works by Lea Grundig.

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TU Dresden presents Lea Grundig and other Dresden artists of the 1950s

The art collection of the TU Dresden is presented in a new exhibition „Upheaval and (Re)commencement #1 Acquisitions and Commissions from the 1950s. The TU Dresden’s art collection“, showing works by Dresden artists like Rudolf Bergander, Fritz Cremer, Hermann Glöckner, Lea Grundig, Bernhard Kretzschmar, Wilhelm Lachnit, Curt Querner, Wilhelm Rudolph and Eva Schulze-Knabe. The art collection of the TU Dresden contains a larger number of important works of the Dresden School of Painting.

The exhibition will be on view until July 6, 2018 at the Altana Gallery at Görges-Bau (GÖR). Exhibitions and publications on the holdings from the 1960s, 70s and 80s and the post-unification period are planned. The exhibition’s curator is Gwendolin Kremer, who has also edited the accompanying catalogue.

More information on the exhibition can be found here

Hans-and-Lea-Grundig Prize 2017 awarded

Commemorating the life and work of Hans Grundig (1901–1958) and Lea Grundig (1906–1977), the anti-fascist artists from Dresden, the third Hans-and-Lea-Grundig-Prize 2017 has been awarded in the three categories Visual Arts, Art History, and Art Education. Afraa Batous’ (Nuremberg) movie Skin (2015) and Heike Ruschmeyer’s (Berlin) oeuvre have been honored in the category Visual Arts. In the category Art History, Dr. Rachel Stern’s (New York City) exhibition and publication project on the expressionist painter Fritz Ascher (2016) was awarded, while the price in the category Art Education was dedicated to the exhibition The Better Half. Jewish Female Artists until 1938 (2016) by Dr. Sabine Fellner and Mag. Andrea Winklbauer, both from the Jewish Museum Vienna. The event took place on Dec. 8, 2017 in the Hermann-Glöckner-Saal of the Albertinum Dresden as a collaboration of the Hans-and-Lea-Grundig-Foundation and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. During the award ceremony, the painting Hunger und Liebe (Hunger and Love) of 1922 by the German-Swedish painter Eric Johansson was presented to the public. Thanks to the support of the Max-Linger-Foundation and of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, the painting is now in the permanent possession of the Gallery New Masters in Dresden.

December 8, 2017, Albertinum, Dresden
Award Ceremony, Hans and Lea Grundig Prize 2017

On December 8, 2017, the Hans-and-Lea-Grundig Foundation will award the 3rd Hans-und-Lea-Grundig-Prize in the three categories Fine Arts, Art History and Art Education. The event is a cooperation with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) / Galerie Neue Meister and will take place in the Hermann-Glöckner-Saal of the Albertinum .

During the award ceremony, the painting Hunger und Liebe (1922) by Eric Johansson, which was acquired by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Max Lingner Foundation for Galerie Neue Meister, will be presented to the public. A greeting word is spoken by the Swedish Honorary Consul for Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Petra Löschke. For capacity reasons we ask you to register until 01. December 2017 under info@hans-und-lea-grundig-stiftung.de

Call for entries for the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize 2017
Application deadline: 31 March 2017

A prize in the amount of 10,000 € and named in commemoration of the artists Hans Grundig (1901–1958) and Lea Grundig (1906–1977), under the patronage of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation will be awarded for artistic and art historical achievement, as well as for achievement in the communication of art.