Louise Rösler (1907-1993), Bilder und Blätter

Louise Rösler (1907-1993), Paintings and Works on Paper Exhibition from July 17 to September 15, 2019

Exhibition opening on July 16, 2019, at 8 PM with Thomas Kempas, art historian, Berlin, former director of Haus am Waldsee, and Kathleen Krenzlin, director of Galerie Parterre Berlin/Kunstsammlung Pankow

"Against the humanitarian catastrophes of her time—of which she was personally affected in the most painful way—Louise Rösler countered with a thinking in positive categories of the sensual under all circumstances. She did not shy away from the world but reflected its visual and atmospheric onslaught both in totality and without a moral interpretive impulse."
Katrin Arrieta in the exhibition's workbook

LOUISE RÖSLER was born in 1907 as the daughter of painter Waldemar Rösler and his wife, painter Oda Hardt-Rösler, in Berlin. She received her first artistic instruction in 1923 at the private art school of Hans Hofmann in Munich. From 1925 to 1927, she studied painting at the Vereinigten Staatsschulen in Berlin under Karl Hofer; her classmates included Werner Laves, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Kurt Roesch, and Walther Kröhnke. From 1928 to 1930, Louise Rösler lived in Paris, and together with Walter Kröhnke, she traveled to southern France, Spain, and Italy. In 1933, Louise Rösler and Walter Kröhnke married and settled in Berlin. Walter Kröhnke was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the outbreak of war and has been missing since 1944. Their daughter Anka was born in 1940 and opened the Museum Ateliershaus Rösler-Kröhnke in Kühlungsborn in 2004. During the heavy bombing of Berlin in 1943, Louise Rösler lost her studio and apartment and was evacuated to Königstein/Taunus. In 1952/53, she became a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and the Neue Rheinische Sezession. It was not until 1959 that she returned to Berlin and in 1990 received an honorary scholarship from the Berlin Senator for Cultural Affairs.

The exhibition is accompanied by Workbook XXIV from the gallery, featuring contributions from Katrin Arrieta, Gabriele Himmelmann, Kathleen Krenzlin, Anke Matelowski, and Ilka Voermann; 56 pages, numerous illustrations.