Guided Tour by the curator through the exhibition “Max Peiffer Watenphul. From Bauhaus to Italy”

The exhibition will remain open until Sunday, March 10!

At the conclusion of the exhibition, the curator and director of the Museum Casa di Goethe, Gregor H. Lersch, offers a guided tour of the retrospective, dedicated to an extraordinary artist of modernism: Max Peiffer Watenphul (Weferlingen 1896 – Rome 1976).

One of the first students at the Bauhaus in Weimar, he developed an entirely individual painting style, rich in color and with an almost naive appearance, in constant confrontation with the avant-garde circles of the 1920s. His subjects, views of Venice and Rome and especially the many depictions of Italian landscapes, often appear as if through a thin atmospheric veil. Also in the 1930s, Peiffer Watenphul experimented with photography, portraying extraordinary architectural panoramas and portraits.

Produced in collaboration with the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, the exhibition traces the persistence of Bauhaus ideas in Max Peiffer Watenphul’s painting and photography work, following his path from Germany to Italy and contextualizing his work in the tradition of German artists in Italy.

The exhibition catalog is published by Electa.

Free admission
Reservations: prenotazioni@casadigoethe.it