On Friday, 1 December, a new exhibition developed in cooperation with the National Museum in Szczecin will open at the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Cottbus. The exposition profiles the North-German artist Else Mögelin against the backdrop of changing stylistic trends and the political turmoil of the difficult history of the 20th century.
"Despite an extensive output created over eight decades, including textiles and toy-making, painting and printmaking, the work of Berlin-born artist Else Mögelin (1887-1982) has yet to be fully appreciated," explains Szymon Piotr Kubiak, PhD, one of the exhibition's curators. "As a student at the Weimar Bauhaus, head of a weaving workshop at the Gildenhall art colony near Neuruppin and leader of university textile studios in Szczecin (1927-1945) and Hamburg (1945-1952), she became associated with important institutions in North Germany. Oscillating between expressionism, realism and naïve art, and using various types of plain fabric weaves, Mögelin became one of the most important representatives of this craft in Brandenburg and (West) Pomerania between the wars, and after 1945, a cultivator of the Baltic land traditions by the North Sea."
The exhibition, created by a German-Polish team from the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Cottbuz and the National Museum in Szczecin, will be open to the public in Cottbus from 1 December to 3 March. It will be available at the National Museum in Szczecin from 4 April.
"For Polish audiences, this will be the first contact with the works of the lecturer of the Szczecin School of Crafts and the Artistic Industry / Practical School of Design Work, which will provide an insight into selected aspects of art in the city and the wider region from the 1920s to the end of the Second World War and its reminiscences in the cultural policy of the Federal Republic of Germany," adds Szymon Piotr Kubiak.
Curators: Caroline Kühne (BLMK), Szymon Piotr Kubiak PhD (NMS)
Else Mögelin. Ich wollte, gegen alle Hindernisse, weben / Else Mögelin. I Wanted to Weave Despite Adversity
1.12.2023–3.03.2024
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst Cottbus
Else Mögelin. I Wanted to Weave Despite Adversity / Else Mögelin. Ich wollte, gegen alle Hindernisse, weben
4.04.2024–9.06.2024
The National Museum in Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego 3
Else Mögelin (1887–1982), Herdsmen, 1930, lithography, paper , the National Museum in Szczecin, legacy after Friedrich Bernhardt, photo by Grzegorz Solecki