About us
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
The Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie is one of Germany's renowned galleries with a far-reaching international reputation. Its programme specializes in the representation and presentation of outstanding works by world-famous artists as well as promising contemporary talents, thus creating a lively link between artistic tradition and the innovative present. Under the direction of Alexander Baumgarte, the gallery maintains close and lasting relationships with established and emerging artists, major museums, international galleries as well as respected curators, art historians and renowned art book publishers.
The gallery's exhibition spectrum encompasses central positions of modernism, including works by artists such as Karel Appel, Fernando Botero, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, John Chamberlain, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, Joan Miró, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, Jean Tinguely and Victor Vasarely - personalities whose work has had a lasting impact on the history of 20th century art. This spectrum is complemented by important representatives of German Expressionism, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and Emil Nolde, who, with their unmistakable formal language and expressive use of color, are considered pioneering avant-gardists of their time.
The gallery also focuses on the ZERO movement, whose protagonists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker set new standards for post-war art with radical innovations in light, movement and materiality. For many years, the gallery has honored their work in important solo and group exhibitions. Equally deeply anchored in the gallery's program are central positions of Art Informel, including Karl Otto Götz, Hans Hartung, Bernhard Schulze and Fred Thieler, whose gestural expressiveness and spontaneous painting style opened up new dimensions of abstraction.
Contemporary positions, including Adela Andea, Jonathan Apelbaum, Stefan Balkenhol, Amanda Chiarucci, Marie Lafontaine, Markus Lüpertz, Germán Gómez, Marguerite Hersberger, Janus Hochgesand, David Magán, Hans-Jörg Mayer and Astrid Lowack represent a generation of artists whose individual forms of expression are shaping the artistic discourses of our time. The gallery accompanies these artists intensively on their path and positions them in international collections, museums and art institutions.
The gallery regularly publishes art-historically sound publications containing essays by renowned specialist authors to provide an in-depth examination of these artistic positions. The elaborately designed catalogs and book publications accompany solo and group exhibitions, document artistic developments and provide a reflective insight into the conceptual background of the works.
