Flirt and Fantasy Griffelkunst from Max Klinger to Peter Doig   12.11.2025 – 01.03.2026

The selected cycles from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen were published by the Hamburger Griffelkunst-Vereinigung e.V. The globally unique graphic art association devoted to the graphic arts is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2025. It was founded by the educator Johannes Böse in Hamburg-Langenhorn. He found the name for his association in the art theoretical text „Malerei und Zeichnung“ (Painting and Drawing, 1891) written by Max Klinger (1857-1920). In this text, the painter, scupltor and graphic artist formulates a radically new conception of the artistic potential of drawing and print series. Freed from their role as subservient pr reproductive media, he sees them as independent forms of artistic expressioon alongside painting.

With reference tot he extensive Klinger collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen, the exhibition in the Old Cabinet begins with his most famous graphic cycle Ein Handschuh (A Glove, Opus VI, 1881). It is this series that sets the narrative of the exhibition at the Department of Print and Drawings in motion.

Around 65 works are on display by Franz Burkhardt, Marcel van Eeden, Peter Doig, Asana Fujikawa, Wenzel Hablik, Anna Haifisch, Max Klinger, Yves Netzhammer, Paul Nougé, Nedko Solakov, Emma Talbot and Heinrich Vogeler.

Read a brief selection of stories about the series on display on our Blog! (in German)

Further exhibition:
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is celebrating the anniversary from 7 November 2025 to 18 January 2026 with the exhibition „And so on to infinity. 100 Jahre griffelkunst“.