Closing event for the exhibition ‘Ausgehoben! Realism from Aristide Maillol to the ZEBRA Group’ Piano concert reflects the history and atmosphere of the exhibition

On 8 June 2025, the exhibition ‘Ausgehoben! Realisms from Aristide Maillol to the ZEBRA Group. The Straßner Collection of Technische Universität Braunschweig’ will come to an end at the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Haus am Löwenwall). The exhibition marks the conclusion of a successful collaboration between Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. To mark the end of the exhibition, Braunschweig pianist Juan Peñalver Madrid will guide the audience through the rediscovered works of art with a piano concert.

On 8 June 2025, the exhibition ‘Ausgehoben! Realisms from Aristide Maillol to the ZEBRA Group. The Straßner Collection of Technische Universität Braunschweig’ will come to an end at the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Haus am Löwenwall). The exhibition marks the conclusion of a successful collaboration between Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. To mark the end of the exhibition, Braunschweig pianist Juan Peñalver Madrid will guide the audience through the rediscovered works of art with a piano concert.

Under the title ‘Found Objects – Soundscapes of a Collection,’ Juan Peñalver Madrid will interpret works by Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, John Cage and Philip Glass. The musical atmospheres reflect the diversity and depth of the Straßner Collection, which has been on display at the museum for the past three months. The compositions combine with the impressions of the exhibition and the stories, research and fragments of memories that preceded their rediscovery.

The exhibition, which spans around 90 years of creative work, presents paintings and prints by internationally renowned artists such as Aristide Maillol, Ida Kerkovius, Lovis Corinth, Maria Caspar-Filser, Hans Purrmann, Max Pechstein, Gerhard Marcks and Willem Grimm, as well as works by Horst Antes, Walter Dexel, Gerd Winner, Axel Dick, Rupprecht Geiger and Peter Nagel. The works are recontextualised thematically and display a stylistic range from colour-intensive landscapes and urban structures to experimental forms and figurative representations. Accompanying the exhibition, the provenance and whereabouts of individual works are critically examined in order to transparently document the history of the collection.

The exhibition runs until 8 June 2025 at the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Haus am Löwenwall, Steintorwall 14, 38100 Braunschweig.

Information about the closing event

8 June 2025, 3 p.m.

Free admission