The exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into all creative phases of this original, imaginative and time-critical painter, who lived, painted and worked in Ahrenshoop for over 25 years. On display are 115 works - the majority of which have never before been shown in a museum.
Hans Brass (1885-1959) is one of the underestimated artistic personalities of classical modernism. His life and work are closely linked to the Baltic resort of Ahrenshoop: the Berlin avant-gardist lived, worked and painted here for over 25 years - with interruptions. He founded the legendary Bunte Stube in Ahrenshoop and was twice elected mayor - an unusual path for an artist of his time.
Brass' career was anything but straightforward: after a furious start in the years of upheaval after the First World War, he was defamed as "degenerate" during the Nazi era. Marginalized in the GDR because of his abstract expression, he fell through the cracks in the West German art world for being too realistic. After 1949, his work was almost completely forgotten. It is only today that a late rediscovery has begun.
The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum provides a comprehensive insight into all creative phases of this original, imaginative and time-critical painter. On display are 115 works - the majority of which have never before been shown in a museum.
Thanks to a generous donation from BAU-Metall GmbH Rostock, 16 paintings, numerous drawings, prints and photographic documents of lost works of art - over 190 items in total - by the painter Hans Brass have recently been added to the Kunstmuseum's collection: A foundation for the further development of Hans Brass' life's work, whose significance for Ahrenshoop and for the supra-regional art history of the 20th century cannot be overestimated. His importance for Ahrenshoop and for the national art history of the 20th century cannot be overestimated.
