DESIGNER UNKNOWN FARBE-AUSSTELLUNG. 1928. 30 1/8x39 5/8 inches. Condition A: minor repaired tears in right margin; creases in image. Paper. Like many other German cities, Krefeld decided to open itself to culture through the founding of a museum in the 1890s. The first museum director, Friedrich Deneker, had very good contacts with important artists, including Peter Behrens, Herman Muthesius and Henri van de Velde. He instituted an ambitious exhibition schedule, and brought to the museum many influential shows and paintings, exposing the local populace to quintessential works and art movements. Amongst the exhibitions were Dutch art (see Swann Modernist Poster Catalogue #2006, lot 4), including paintings by van Gogh, French Impressionism and German Expressionism. Not only a boon for the local community, two of the museum's shows, "Line and Form," and the exhibition announced by this poster, "Color," received international acclaim. As listed on this formidable, post-Bauhausian, post-constructivist poster, the collective exhibition was a hit-parade of many of the best artists of the day. Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Gris were hung side by side with Nolde, Klee, Thorn-Prikker, Campendonk and others. Most of the museum's collections were seized by the Nazi's in 1937 as "entartete Kunst."
