Exhibition: Radebeul Thaut motifs past and present, part II

Although Johannes Thaut was born in Radebeul in 1921, he only returned to Radebeul in 1955 after many more or less adventurous detours that took him all the way to Sweden. Characterised by his biography, he was involved in the Lößnitz town far beyond his own artistic work. Johannes Thaut was one of the artists who co-founded the Radebeul Graphics Market and campaigned for Radebeul to have a municipal gallery, of which he was a member of the gallery advisory board until his death. He passed on his experience and knowledge in the painting and drawing circles of the Arzneimittelwerk Dresden (AWD) and VEB Planeta.

Johannes Thaut died a few days after his 67th birthday on 28 May 1987 and was honoured by the Radebeul City Gallery with a memorial exhibition in 1995. On display was a cross-section of his entire oeuvre, including sketches created in pubs, graphics, watercolours and paintings with a wide variety of motifs as well as designs for murals that Johannes Thaut had created together with the Radebeul artists Gerold Schwenke and Günter Schmitz. This diverse, once again very well-attended survey exhibition was to be the penultimate exhibition at the old gallery location.

While the gallery was in exile for two years following the cancellation of the rental contract, its employees established a wide range of contacts and helped to open up alternative exhibition opportunities until the reopening at the new location in Altkötzschenbroda in September 1997.

In 1997 (opening in April), for example, the exhibition "Thaut motifs then and now" was shown in the "Rathausgalerie", organised by the "Verein für denkmalpflege und neues bauen" on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Johannes Thaut's death. The motifs of the selected aquatint etchings formed the basis for the photographs by Friedhelm Kratz. ...

On the occasion of this year's anniversary, Johannes Thaut's former motifs have now been documented photographically for a second time...

Complete article in the April issue of the cultural monthly magazine Preview & Review

Admission is free. The exhibition begins with the vernissage on 7 April and ends with the finissage on 22 September 2024. The Kunsthaus Kötzschenbroda is open on request. Registration requested under 0160-1038663,