Galerie Rothe

Since its founding in early 1961, Galerie Rothe has consistently championed Informel, an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and sought a new visual language free from geometric or figurative forms. As one of the first galleries in Southern Germany, it showcased the most important artists of the German Informel, including Bernard Schultze, Emil Schumacher, Gerhard Hoehme, Karl Fred Dahmen, Fred Thieler, and Karl Otto Götz. From the very beginning, the gallery has also placed a strong emphasis on sculpture. Today, numerous pieces from its exhibitions can be found in museums, public institutions, and prominent private collections (e.g., Kunsthalle Mannheim, Museum Saarbrücken, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Skulpturensammlung Dresden, Burda Collection, among others).

The gallery regularly presents new works by its artists in solo exhibitions, as well as at fairs both domestically and internationally. By publishing accompanying catalogs, it documents their artistic developments.

To this day, the gallery also engages with new trends in painting, graphics, and sculpture. Its interest in developments in German art particularly focuses on individual artists.

Originally emerging from the Edition Rothe, founded in 1958, which was the first German publisher for original print graphics after 1945, Galerie Rothe offers a very extensive and diverse selection of drawings, gouaches, watercolors, mixed media, and print graphics.